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GATM PPMO knockdown affects host response to H1N1 influenza infection in mouse lungs

ABSTRACT: The GATM gene shows strong transcriptional regulation during influenza infection and increased GATM transcription correlates with peak viral titers in the lung. In order to investigate an in vivo role for GATM during influenza infection, we created a peptide-conjugated phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PPMO) to disrupt GATM translation. In our study, mice received a GATM-specific PPMO or scrambled PPMO once per day for two days, and then were subsequently infected with an H1N1 (A/California/04/2009) strain of IAV or PBS as a mock infection control. Mouse lungs were harvested three days post-infection and analyzed via RNA sequencing.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE181246 | GEO | 2021/08/02

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Annually, influenza A viruses circulate the world causing wide-spread sickness, economic loss, and death. One way to better defend against influenza virus-induced disease may be to develop novel host-based therapies, targeted at mitigating viral pathogenesis through the management of virus-dysregulated host functions. However, mechanisms that govern aberrant host responses to influenza virus infection remain incompletely understood. We previously showed that the pandemic H1N1 virus influenza A/California/04/2009 (H1N1; CA04) has enhanced pathogenicity in the lungs of cynomolgus macaques relative to a seasonal influenza virus isolate (A/Kawasaki/UTK-4/2009 (H1N1; KUTK4)). Here, we used microarrays to identify host gene sequences that were highly differentially expressed (DE) in CA04-infected macaque lungs, and we employed a novel strategy M-bM-^@M-^S combining functional and pathway enrichment analyses, transcription factor binding site enrichment analysis and protein-protein interaction data M-bM-^@M-^S to create a CA04 differentially regulated host response network. This network describes enhanced viral RNA sensing, immune cell signaling and cell cycle arrest in CA04-infected lungs, and highlights a novel, putative role for the MYC-associated zinc finger (MAZ) transcription factor in regulating these processes. Lung tissues used for microarray studies were obtained from 13 female cynomolgus macaques infected with influenza viruses. 6 animals were inoculated with influenza A/California/04/2009 and 6 animals were inoculated with influenza A/Kawasaki/UTK-4/2009. 1 uninfected animal served as a negative control. On days 3 and 7 post-infection (p.i.), lung tissues were harvested from the middle and lower lung lobes of 3animals in each infection group (N = 26 total samples were collected, 3 samples were removed from the study due to low RNA quality). All but 3 samples were collected from visually apparent virus-induced gross lesions. Two lung tissue samples were obtained from middle and lower lobes of the uninfected animal at the start of the experiment.

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GATM PPMO knockdown affects host response to H1N1 influenza infection in mouse lungs

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