We Are Not That Important

Elizabethkingia anophelis, a bacteria commonly found in the belly of mosquitoes, has recently been causing sickness and death in humans (1). The purpose of this experiment was to determine how different antibiotics affected the transcription of certain genes in E. anophelisR26. We chose five genes that corresponded to the amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism pathway. Those five genes, DNA Primase, Beta-hexosamine, Multiple polyol-specific dehydrogenase, Fructokinase, and Mannose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase, were transcribed a total of 97 times, with minimal variance under each condition. We can conclude that the five genes we were interested in, were not vital to Elizabethkingia anophelis.