Understanding normal PRRSV infection in lung based on genome-wide transcriptome response identified by deep sequencing

ABSTRACT: Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) has been one of the most economically important diseases affecting swine industry worldwide and causes great economic losses each year. PRRS virus (PRRSV) replicates mainly in porcine alveolar macrophages (PAMs) and dendritic cells (DCs) and develops persistent infections, antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), interstitial pneumonia and immunosuppression. But the molecular mechanisms of PRRSV infection still are poorly understood. Here we reported on the first genome-wide host transcriptional responses to normal PRRSV (N-PRRSV) infection using Solexa/Illumina’s digital gene expression (DGE) system, a tag-based high-throughput transcriptome sequencing method, and analyzed systematically the relationship between pulmonary gene expression profiles after N-PRRSV infection and infection pathology. Our results indicated that N-PRRSV appeared to utilize multiple strategies for its long surviral in infected pigs, including subverting host innate immune response, hijacking host lipid metabolism, inducing an anti-apoptotic and anti-inflammatory state as well as developing ADE. Virus-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, adhesion molecules and inflammatory enzymes production and inflammatory cells, antibodies, complement activation were likely to result in the development of inflammatory responses during N-PRRSV infection processing. N-PRRSV-induced immunosuppression might be mediated by apoptosis of infected cells, which caused depletion of immune cells and induced an anti-inflammatory cytokine response in which they were unable to eradicate the primary infection or developed secondary infection. Our systems analysis will benefit for better understanding the molecular pathogenesis of N-PRRSV infection, developing novel antiviral therapies and identifying genetic components for swine resistance/susceptibility to PRRS.

ORGANISM(S): Sus scrofa

PROVIDER: GSE19970 | GEO | 2010/12/05

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA122621

REPOSITORIES: GEO