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Gene Expression in Transformed Lymphocytes Reveals Phenotype-Modifying Pathways in Cystic Fibrosis

ABSTRACT: Heritable genetic variants modify cystic fibrosis (CF) clinical phenotypes, e.g., lung disease, age-of-onset of persistent Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa), and meconium ileus (MI).Â Previous genome wide association studies (GWAS) have begun to inform the genetic architecture of CF phenotypes.Â Analyses of gene expression will complement GWAS, as demonstrated by analyses of gene expression in lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) to identify disease-related pathophysiological processes for non-CF complex traits.Â In this study, global gene expression was measured in RNA from LCLs from 754 CF patients and analyzed for association with lung disease severity, age-of-onset of persistent P. aeruginosa pulmonary infection, and MI at birth.Â Each phenotype displayed distinct expression associations.Â Most pathways significantly associated with lung disease were related to membranes, vesicle traffic, and Golgi/endoplasmic reticulum (ER).Â Pathways containing HLA genes (Class I and II) were significantly associated with both lung and P. aeruginosa phenotypes, but they displayed qualitative differences between phenotypes.Â MI associated with pathways involving oxidative phosphorylation.Â The results support the concept that gene expression associated with heritable variation acts to modify phenotypes in CF. 754 samples were analyzed; 2 control samples were plated by Expression Analysis per plate and 1 pooled sample from the patient set was added to one well on each plate.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Michael Knowles

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-60690 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Gene expression in transformed lymphocytes reveals variation in endomembrane and HLA pathways modifying cystic fibrosis pulmonary phenotypes.

O'Neal Wanda K WK Gallins Paul P Pace Rhonda G RG Dang Hong H Wolf Whitney E WE Jones Lisa C LC Guo XueLiang X Zhou Yi-Hui YH Madar Vered V Huang Jinyan J Liang Liming L Moffatt Miriam F MF Cutting Garry R GR Drumm Mitchell L ML Rommens Johanna M JM Strug Lisa J LJ Sun Wei W Stonebraker Jaclyn R JR Wright Fred A FA Knowles Michael R MR

American journal of human genetics 20150129 2

Variation in cystic fibrosis (CF) phenotypes, including lung disease severity, age of onset of persistent Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) lung infection, and presence of meconium ileus (MI), has been partially explained by genome-wide association studies (GWASs). It is not expected that GWASs alone are sufficiently powered to uncover all heritable traits associated with CF phenotypic diversity. Therefore, we utilized gene expression association from lymphoblastoid cells lines from 754 p.P ...[more]

PMID: 25640674

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Project description:One of the hallmarks of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cystic fibrosis (CF) infection is very high-cell-density (HCD) replication in the lung, allowing this bacterium to induce virulence controlled by HCD quorum-sensing systems. However, the nutrient sources sustaining HCD replication in this chronic infection is largely unknown. Hence, understanding the nutrient factors contributing to HCD in the CF lung will yield new insights into the 'metabolic pathogenicity' and potential treatment of CF infections caused by P. aeruginosa. Herein, we performed microarray studies of P. aeruginosa directly isolated from the CF lung to demonstrate its metabolic capability and virulence in vivo. Our in vivo microarray data, confirmed by real-time reverse-transcription-PCR, indicated P. aeruginosa expressed several genes for virulence, drug-resistance, and utilization of multiple nutrient sources (lung surfactant lipids and amino acids) contributing to HCD replication. The data also indicates deregulation of several pathways, suggesting in vivo evolution by deregulation of a large portion of the transcriptome during chronic CF infection. To our knowledge, this is the first in vivo transcriptome of P. aeruginosa in a natural CF infection, and it indicates several important aspects of pathogenesis, drug-resistance, and nutrient-utilization never before observed in vivo. Experiment Overall Design: The purpose of the experiment was to observe which genes are upregulated in P. aeruginosa during chronic CF lung infection as compared to PAO1. All in vitro studies were grown in 1x M9 minimal media supplemented with 20 mM citrate and grown to mid-log phase prior to RNA isolation. The in vivo RNA was isolated directly from CF sputum samples after TRIzol treatment. Each in vitro sample (both for PAO1 and the CF sputum pool isolate) were processed individually and in triplicate. Two in vivo isolations from sputum were conducted from the same patient but two different sputum samples. After isolation of total RNA, samples were processed for microarrays (i.e. cDNA synthesis, fragmentation, labeling, etc) as recommended by Affymetrix, and processed on the GeneChip as recommended by Affymetrix.

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Gene Expression in Transformed Lymphocytes Reveals Phenotype-Modifying Pathways in Cystic Fibrosis

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Gene expression in transformed lymphocytes reveals variation in endomembrane and HLA pathways modifying cystic fibrosis pulmonary phenotypes.

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