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Series GSE94924 Query DataSets for GSE94924
Status Public on Feb 16, 2017
Title Genome-wide identification of small RNAs expressed in multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium and their implications in daptomycin resistance
Organism Enterococcus faecium Aus0004
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary Regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are now considered as major players in many physiological and adaptive responses in pathogenic bacteria. sRNAs have been extensively studied in Gram-negative bacteria, but less information is available in Gram-positive pathogens. There is a spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) opportunistic organisms, grouped as “ESKAPE” pathogens, which comprise enterococci, a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections and outbreaks with emergence of MDR isolates, especially vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF). Note that no information about sRNA expression is known in this major opportunistic pathogen. By transcriptomic and genomic analyses using E. faecium Aus0004 reference strain, 249 transcribed IGRs, including sRNA candidates, were detected and, using a series of cut-offs, this set was lowered down to 54 sRNAs while 7 that were predicted based on comparative sequence analysis. RNA-seq was performed with and without subinhibitory concentrations (SIC) of daptomycin, a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic used for VREF infections. Under daptomycin SIC exposure, 260 genes (9.1% of the genome) had a significant alteration of expression including 80 upregulated genes and 180 downregulated genes. Among the repressed genes, a large proportion (55%) coded for proteins involved in carbohydrate and transport metabolism. Also, we focused on the 9 sRNAs exhibiting the highest expression, and all of them were confirmed as expressed along bacterial growth by Northern blots and qPCR. Out of these 9 sRNAs, four had significantly lower or higher expression in the presence of daptomycin SIC, and therefore responded to antibiotic exposure. Finally, we also tested the expression of these 9 sRNAs in a collection of isogenic Aus0004 mutants with increasing levels of daptomycin resistance, and we observed by qPCR that some sRNAs had a significantly modified expression in daptomycin resistance mutants. It highlights the significant implication of some of the E. faecium sRNAs in the early steps of the development of daptomycin resistance. This is the first experimental genome-wide sRNA identification in Gram-positive E. faecium, a leading cause of hospital acquired infections.
 
Overall design Identification of the first sRNAs in Enterococcus faecium and transcriptome analysis by RNA-seq to monitor the levels of all transcripts (mRNAs and sRNAs) in bacterial cells grown in the absence or the presence of a subinhibitory concentration (0.5 mg/L) of daptomycin
 
Contributor(s) Cattoir V, Sinel C, Augagneur Y, Sassi M, Felden B
Citation(s) 28894187
Submission date Feb 15, 2017
Last update date Sep 13, 2019
Contact name Vincent Cattoir
E-mail(s) vincent.cattoir@chu-rennes.fr
Organization name CHU de Rennes
Street address 2 rue Henri Le Guilloux
City Rennes
ZIP/Postal code 35033
Country France
 
Platforms (1)
GPL23028 Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Enterococcus faecium Aus0004)
Samples (4)
GSM2492022 Growth with no daptomycin - sample 1
GSM2492023 Growth with no daptomycin - sample 2
GSM2492024 Growth with daptomycin (0.5 mg/L) - sample 1
Relations
BioProject PRJNA374850
SRA SRP099835

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