Biologia computacional aplicada à análise de dados de microarranjos do genoma da bactéria marinha vibrio parahaemolyticus em presença de n-acetilglicosamina

• Autor(a) principal: Santos Neto, Antonio Alves dos
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do LNCC
• Texto Completo: https://tede.lncc.br/handle/tede/133
• topic: Biologia Molecular; Vibrio parahaemolyticus; N-acetilglicosamina; Microarranjos; Expressão Gênica; Molecular Biology; Vibrio parahaemolyticus; N-acetylglucosamine; Microarrays; Gene Expression; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO::TEORIA DA COMPUTACAO::COMPUTABILIDADE E MODELOS DE COMPUTACAO

Large scale gene expression analysis has fundamental importance for understanding cellular function and gene regulation mechanics. It enables the measurement of expression levels of thousands of genes simultaneously, and makes possible a wider understanding of the biological system. Among the main experimental techniques available for this purpose, microarray technology has been widely used. The objective of this work was to determine the genes of Vibrio parahaemolyticus which have their expression induced or repressed in presence of amino-sugars N-acetylglucosamine (NAG). V. parahaemolyticus is a marine bacterium, commonly found in water and in association with marine organisms. NAG is one of the most abundant amino sugars in the marine environment. For this, V. parahaemolyticus RIMD2210633, was cultivated in two media as sources of energy. The first medium consists of maltose and NAG (control) and the second only by NAG (treatment). Bacterial culture was done under aerobic conditions and low agitation at 28°C. Two samples were drawn from the medium 24 hours after the experiment beginning in order to perform the extraction of mRNA and preparation of cDNA. Three replicas of the experiments were made. Mixtures of cDNA prepared from RNA extracted from each replicate were used in hybridizations in microarray slides containing a total of 4832 ORFS from the V. parahaemolyticus RIMD2210633 genome. Comparative analysis of gene expression of V. parahaemolyticus in two culture conditions resulted in detection of 59 genes with expression induced, 38 repressed genes, and 4245 without modified expression (increased or decreased) in presence of NAG. In total, 523 genes were excluded from this comparison because the hybridization was unsatisfactory. There was a gene ordination following the functional classification of the database TIGR-CMR and KEGG. The genes with induced expression mainly belong to classes of regulatory functions, energy metabolism, and transport proteins. PilA and Chemotaxis proteins were found, suggesting a role of NAG in the transformation. Repressed expression genes are mainly included in the functions of energy metabolism, cell address, and hypothetical proteins. This study demonstrated that NAG interfere in regulation of different cell processes, including the ability to capture DNA from the medium by V. parahaemolyticus.