Our Little Piece of Elizabethkingia

Abstract

Elizabethkingia anophelis  is the cause of many disease outbreaks in the United States which makes it a crucial bacteria to research and investigate. Our study focuses on whether certain antibiotics have a significant effect on the RNA transcription levels in five genes involved in the Shikimate pathway. Using the UniPROTdb, RASTdb, and BLAST databases, along with RNA sequencing, we were able to find data to aid in our investigation. Ultimately, we found that exposing bacterium to these specific antibiotics leads to significant changes in the transcription levels in two of the five genes that we studied.