Metformin treatment on Fusobacterium nucleatum. Metformin treatment on Fusobacterium nucleatum

High throughput RNA sequencing For RNA sequencing, F. nucleatum was incubated with 1 mM or 5 mM metformin for 7 hours, when the bacterium were under logarithmic phase. Total RNA of F. nucleatum was stabilized with RNA protect Bacteria Reagent (QIAGEN, Germany) and extracted using a QIAGEN RNeasy kit (QIAGEN, Germany) following the manufacturer’s instructions. Overall design: Examination of the alterations in Fusobacterium nucleatum gene expression by metformin treatment.