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Haemophilus ducreyi infection induces oxidative stress, central metabolic changes, and a mixed pro- and anti-inflammatory environment in the human host

ABSTRACT: Few studies have investigated host-bacterial interactions at sites of infection in humans using transcriptomics and metabolomics. Haemophilus ducreyi causes cutaneous ulcers in children and the genital ulcer disease chancroid in adults. We developed a human challenge model in which healthy adult volunteers are infected with H. ducreyi on the upper arm until they develop pustules. Here, we characterized host-pathogen interactions in pustules using transcriptomics and metabolomics and examined interactions between the host transcriptome and metabolome using integrated omics. In a previous pilot study, we determined the human and H. ducreyi transcriptomes and the metabolome of pustule and wounded sites of 4 volunteers (B. Griesenauer, et al. mBio 10(3):e01193-19 https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01193-19). While we could form provisional transcriptional networks between the host and H. ducreyi, the study was underpowered to integrate the metabolome with the host transcriptome. To better define and integrate the transcriptomes and metabolome, we used samples from both the pilot study (n=4) and new volunteers (n=8) to identify 5,495 human differentially expressed genes (DEGs), 123 H. ducreyi DEGs, 205 differentially abundant positive ions, and 198 differentially abundant negative ions. We identified 42 positively correlated and 29 negatively correlated human-¬H. ducreyi transcriptome clusters. In addition, we defined human transcriptome-metabolome networks consisting of 9 total clusters, which highlighted changes in fatty acid metabolism and mitigation of oxidative damage. Taken together, the data suggests a mixed pro- and anti-inflammatory environment and rewired central metabolism in the host that provides a hostile, nutrient limited environment for H. ducreyi.

ORGANISM(S): [Haemophilus] ducreyi Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE214586 | GEO | 2022/11/23

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Comparison of gene expression from subjects who resolved or formed pustules to H.ducreyi. In human inoculation experiments, the cutaneous immune response to Haemophilus ducreyi consists of serum, PMN, macrophages, T cells and myeloid DC. In reinfection experiments, some subjects form pustules twice (PP group) or resolve infection twice (RR group). Although pustule formation is associated with serum resistance and phagocytic failure, there are no differences in the ability of isolated phagocytes or serum obtained from PP and RR subjects to ingest or kill H. ducreyi. To identify the basis for differential host susceptibility to H. ducreyi, we used microarrays to profile gene expression in infected and uninfected tissue and monocyte-derived DC obtained from PP and RR subjects. In infected tissue, both groups had a core response to H. ducreyi. Many additional transcripts that signify active immune function were upregulated exclusively in RR tissue, while PP tissue exclusively contained differentially regulated transcripts consistent with immune dysregulation. The core response of infected DC from both groups was typical of a DC1 response. RR DC exclusively expressed many additional transcripts indicative of DC1 function, while PP DC uniquely expressed differentially regulated transcripts characteristic of both DC1 and DCreg. The data suggest that DC from PP and RR subjects are prewired to respond differentially to H. ducreyi. Experiment Overall Design: Six healthy adult volunteers (5 females, 1 male, 36 Â± 13 yrs, mean age Â± SD) who had been infected with H. ducreyi twice were inoculated a third time. Each volunteer was inoculated at 3 sites on the upper arm with live H. ducreyi 35000HP (a human passaged isolate of strain 35000) and at 1 site with sterile PBS. Forty-eight hours after inoculation, lesion size was measured and RNA was isolated from the infected site that had the largest diameter. RNA was also obtained from the PBS control site (uninfected site). We obtained peripheral blood 6 to 12 months after inoculation of the 6th subject and derived myeloid DC in vitro. In brief, CD14+ peripheral blood monocytes were isolated from PBMC by positive selection magnetic beads (Miltenyi Biotec, Auburn, CA) and grown in the presence of recombinant human (rh) IL-4 (1 ng/ml) and rhGM-CSF (0.2 ng/ml) (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN). The cells were HLA-DR+, CD86+ CD40+, CD3-, CD14-, and CD19- by flow cytometry. The experiment was done in pairs so that DC from 1 RR subject were exposed to the same inoculum as DC from 1 PP subject. DC were incubated with nonopsonized H. ducreyi for 90 minutes at an MOI of 30:1. The DC were washed to remove non-associated bacteria, and incubated an additional 22.5 hours. Cells were collected and used for microarray analysis. Supernatants were collected and analyzed for cytokines using the Human Th1/Th2 II Cytometric Bead Array Kit per manufacturerâs instructions (BD Biosciences).

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Haemophilus ducreyi infection induces oxidative stress, central metabolic changes, and a mixed pro- and anti-inflammatory environment in the human host

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