Opendata, web and dolomites

CMDNAUP SIGNED

Composition and Mechanism of the DNA-uptake Pilus of Vibrio cholerae

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 CMDNAUP project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the CMDNAUP project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "CMDNAUP" about.

naturally    had    tfp    visualised    sophisticated    conserved    nanomachine    pathogens    bacillus    minimal    mechanisms    virulence    subtilis    chitinous    molecular    question    pili    mainly    environment    natural    almost    bacteria    gram    underlying    evolution    zooplankton    cholera    outer    action    combine    bacterial    components    fellow    competent    extensions    spread    blokesch    mechanism    dna    polymeric    gene    free    form    pathogen    notably    pandemic    causes    visualise    exoskeletons    biological    cholerae    infrastructures    nothing    composition    machinery    antibiotic    resistance    proteins    surface    vibrio    mode    motility    works    positive    pilus    roles    chance    epfl    genetic    membrane    training    maximum    ubiquitous    functions    innovative    genes    cell    lab    pioneered    purified    hgt    follow    implying    transfer    prospective    aquatic    human    initiates    failed    answer    disease    attachment    assembly    horizontal    determined    negative    models    bacterium    elucidate    competence    rapid    play    actually    forms    encoding   

Project "CMDNAUP" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE 

Organization address
address: BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1
city: LAUSANNE
postcode: 1015
website: www.epfl.ch

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country Switzerland [CH]
 Project website https://blokesch-lab.epfl.ch
 Total cost 175˙419 €
 EC max contribution 175˙419 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2015
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2016
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2016-09-01   to  2018-08-31

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE CH (LAUSANNE) coordinator 175˙419.00

Map

 Project objective

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) allows rapid bacterial evolution including the spread of genes encoding antibiotic resistance and virulence factors. The Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae is an important human pathogen that causes the pandemic disease Cholera. In its natural aquatic environment growth on the chitinous exoskeletons of zooplankton initiates the development of ‘Natural Competence’, a widespread and key form of HGT that allows bacteria to take up free DNA from the environment. DNA uptake involves a sophisticated nanomachine known as a Type IV Pilus (TFP), which forms polymeric extensions from the cell surface, are ubiquitous throughout bacteria and play a wide range of other roles such as surface motility and attachment. Notably, this machinery is conserved in other naturally competent bacteria including in several important human pathogens, implying a common mode of action. Work on this machinery has mainly been done in Gram-positive models like Bacillus subtilis but had failed to visualise an uptake pilus. Recently, the Blokesch lab visualised a DNA uptake pilus extending from the outer membrane of V. cholerae and determined the minimal known components needed for its assembly. However, we still know almost nothing about how this machinery actually works to bring DNA into the cell. To answer this important question and elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms we will follow two main objectives. 1. We will determine the composition of purified DNA-uptake pili and investigate the functions of the identified proteins. 2. We will combine innovative genetic and cell-biological approaches to investigate the mechanism of DNA uptake. The Blokesch lab at EPFL has pioneered genetic and cell biological methods for studying competence in V. cholerae and has state-of-the-art equipment and infrastructures that offer the prospective fellow the maximum chance of success and the best-possible training through the research.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "CMDNAUP" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "CMDNAUP" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.1.3.2.)

CLIMACY (2020)

Practices of Climate Diplomacy and Uneven Policy Responses on Climate Change on Human Mobility

Read More  

Photonic Radar (2019)

Implementation of Long Reach Hybrid Photonic Radar System and convergence over FSO and PON Networks

Read More  

STMICRO (2020)

Space-time visualization of microelectronic chip operation with femtosecond electron microscopy

Read More