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Regulation of hepatic microRNAs in response to early stage Echinococcus multilocularis egg enfection in C57BL/6 mice

ABSTRACT: We report a comprehensive analysis of the hepatic miRNA transcriptome at one-month post-infection of experimental primary alveolar echinococcosis (AE), a parasitic infection a parasitic infection caused upon ingestion of E. multilocularis eggs. In infected mice, the expression levels of 28 miRNAs were significantly altered. Of these, 9 were up-regulated and 19 were down-regulated as compared to the non-infected controls. We also studied the issue related to functionally mature arm selection preference (5p and/or 3p) from the miRNA precursor and showed that 9 pre-miRNAs exhibited different arm selection preferences in normal versus infected liver tissues. In conclusion, this study provides first evidence that miRNAs are regulated early in primary murine AE. Thus, further research on the regulation of miRNAs during AE is needed, since miRNAs constitute an attractive potential option for development of novel therapeutic approaches against AE.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE146185 | GEO | 2020/03/03

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:The cestodes Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis, as the pathogens of cystic echinococcosis and alveolar echinococcosis respectively, can cause significant health problems to the host and considerable socio-economic losses as a consequence. Based on the genomic data regarding these two species available in public database recently, we carried out high-throughput mRNA and small RNA transcriptomic sequencing of them and generate enormous transcriptomic datasets. A total of 34,717,856 reads (79.79%) mapped to E. granulosus genome, and 38,882,179 reads (87.61%) mapped to E. multiloculari genome. A total of 24,550 (7,925 known and 16,625 novel transcripts) and 23,771 transcripts (8,432 known and 15,339 novel transcripts) were assembled for E. granulosus and E. multilocularis respectively, and the assembly yielded 11,330 genes (6,815 known and 4,515 novel genes) for E. granulosus and 10,101 genes (7,051 known and 3,050 novel genes) for E. multilocularis, compared with the reference genome data. Bioinformatic analysis identified 6,826 AS events from 3,774 E. granulosus genes (33.31%) and 6,644 AS events in 3,611 E. multilocularis genes (35.75%). A total of 76,674 distinct microRNAs of E. granulosus and 115,742 of E. multilocularis were also obtained from small RNA transcriptome sequencing reads. Of these, there were 20 microRNAs of E. granulosus and 22 microRNAs of E. multilocularis that belonged to 19 and 21 microRNA families common to other metazoan lineages separately. 76 and 90 novel microRNAs so far unique to E. granulosus and E. multilocularis were also identified respectively. This study represents an extensive mRNA and small RNA transcriptome dataset obtained from the deep sequencing of these two cestode species. The findings will facilitate a more fundamental understanding of cestode biology, evolution, the host-parasite interplay, and provide new insights into the pathophysiology of echinococcosis, contributing to the development of improved interventions for disease control.

Project description:For Samples GSM601017-28: The aim of this study was to use expression profiling to define transcriptional patterns and regulatory pathways that characterize the host liver response to E. multilocularis infection in the experimental model of secondary infection, to compare gene expression in this model to those described in the model of "primary infection", and to follow the changes in gene expression and in the expression of a cell proliferation marker over time during the complete chronic phase of E.multilocularis infection, following early and middle stages. For Samples GSM601029-40: The aim of this study was to use expression profiling to define transcriptional patterns and regulatory pathways that characterize the host liver response to E. multilocularis infection in the experimental model of secondary infection, to compare gene expression in this model to those described in the model of "primary infection", and to follow the changes in gene expression and in the expression of a cell proliferation marker over time during the complete chronic phase of E.multilocularis infection, following its middle and late stages. For Samples GSM601017-28: The anterior liver tissue sample of control mice group and alveolar echinococcosis mice group were obtained at each time point(1 month and 3 month). Biological replicates is 3. Then, total RNA from anterior liver of both groups were used as test sample, which labelled cy5 fluorescein, and the pool RNA of healthy BALB/c mice anterior liver was used as reference sample, which labelled cy3 fluorescein, and then hybridized to 32K Mouse Genome Array Genechips, representing about 25000 characterized murine genes. For Samples GSM601029-40: The anterior liver tissue sample of control mice group and alveolar echinococcosis mice group were obtained at each time point(2 month and 6 month). Biological replicates is 3. Then, total RNA from anterior liver of both groups were used as test sample, which labelled cy5 fluorescein, and the pool RNA of healthy BALB/c mice anterior liver was used as reference sample, which labelled cy3 fluorescein, and then hybridized to 36K Mouse Genome Array Genechips, representing about 25000 characterized murine genes.

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Regulation of hepatic microRNAs in response to early stage Echinococcus multilocularis egg enfection in C57BL/6 mice

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