Osmoregulation: Elizabethkingia anophelis Are You in or Out?

Abstract

Elizabethkingaanophelis is one strain in the Elizabethkingaspecies. This strain is found in the gut of mosquitos and causes human disease. We have researched five genes in the pathway of Osmoregulation, which controls the amount of water allowed in and out of the cell, in Elizabethkingaanophelis R26. While researching these genes, we have concluded that the genes in Osmoregulation in Elizabethkingaanophelis R26 have a significant change in the presence of Imipenem the majority of the time. The genes in Osmoregulation are all concluded not to be a part of an operon. Therefore, all of these genes work independently to perform the subfunction of Osmoregulation. This is vital to the cell becuase it helps to prevent the cell from becoming too hypotonic and too hypertonic and helps to keep it in a stable isotonic state.