RNA sequencing of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis in response to various substrates

The purpose of this project was to determine the whole transcriptome response of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. Infantis to pooled and individual human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) relative to lactose Bacterial isolates grown on lactose, pooled human milk oligosaccharides (HMO), lacto-N-tetraose (LNT), lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT), 2’fucosyllactose (2’FL), 3-fucosyllactose (3FL), and 6’sialyllactose (6’SL). RNA was extracted and sequenced, in duplicate, on an Illumina HiSeq. Early, mid, and late timepoints in response to pooled HMO were additionally sequenced in duplicate.