genomewide characterization of host-pathogen interactions by ...
genomewide characterization of host-pathogen interactions by ...
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Maren Depke<br />
Results<br />
Pathogen Gene Expression Pr<strong>of</strong>iling<br />
an increase in expression at both internalization time points and in the later 6.5 h serum/CO 2<br />
control whereas the 2.5 h serum/CO 2 control exhibited in average no change. In cluster group 2,<br />
to which 17 sequences were assigned, transcripts exhibited a decrease <strong>of</strong> expression in both<br />
internalization samples, and in general no change in the 2.5 h serum/CO 2 controls. Some <strong>of</strong> the<br />
sequences were slightly decreased and some other slightly increased in the later 6.5 h serum/CO 2<br />
controls. Cluster group 3 included 36 transcripts with increased expression at both internalization<br />
and serum/CO 2 control time points. Transcripts with mainly decreased expression in both<br />
internalized samples belonged to cluster group 4 which included 34 transcripts. The 2.5 h<br />
serum/CO 2 control exhibited a varying trend <strong>of</strong> regulation with some repressed and some<br />
induced sequences, whereas the 6.5 h control exhibited a decrease in expression. The 16<br />
transcripts in cluster group 5 possessed an increase in the 2.5 h and 6.5 h internalization samples.<br />
Also in the serum/CO 2 controls at both time points a slight tendency <strong>of</strong> induction <strong>of</strong> expression<br />
was observed, but less prominent than the internalization samples. The last cluster group 6<br />
comprised the remaining 16 transcripts with similar expression pattern as the transcripts in<br />
cluster group 5 with exception <strong>of</strong> the expression change in the serum/CO 2 controls, where only<br />
minor changes in the 2.5 h and slight decrease in expression in the 6.5 h samples were visible.<br />
Transcripts in all cluster groups <strong>of</strong> both 2.5 h and 6.5 h internalization signatures showed only<br />
minor variation from the non-changed value <strong>of</strong> 1 in the sample <strong>of</strong> non-adherent staphylococci.<br />
This finding was expected as the similarity between this sample and the 1 h serum/CO 2 control<br />
baseline had been unveiled before.<br />
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