Project description:Geographical distinct virulent Babesia bovis strains have similar gene expression changes as they go through attenuation. Pair end RNA-sequencing reads on three biological replicate sample pairs of virulent parent and attenuated derivative Babesia bovis strain isolated in Argentina.
Project description:The immune response associated with mastitis caused by Mycoplasma bovis is a very complicated biological process in several type of cells, including immune cells, mammary epithelial cells and, endothelial cells. Thus, revealing of the microRNAs in the Mycoplasma bovis infected mammary gland tissues is particularly important for the immune response mechanism to Mycoplasma bovis. Firstly, mammary gland tissue samples were collected from Holstein cows and screened for Mycoplasma bovis. Then, total RNA was isolated from mycoplasma bovis infected tissues and RNA sequencing was performed. After bioinformatics analysis, GO and KEGG analysis of target genes of identified microRNAs were conducted. Our results revaled that 24 of the known microRNAs were expressed differently and 13 of the novel microRNAs were expressed differently in Mycoplasma bovis positive tissues. The target genes of these microRNAs were found to be associated with especially inflammation pathways. In conclusion, this study demonstrated that identified miRNAs may be involved in the signaling pathways during mastitis case caused by Mycoplasma bovis.
Project description:Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) and Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) are important pathogens of cattle, causing bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease respectively. M. bovis and MAP infect residential macrophages in the lung and intestines respectively and subvert the macrophage biology to create a survival niche. To investigate this interaction we simultaneously studied the transcriptional response of bovine monocyte-derived macrophages to infection with two strains of M. bovis (AF2122/97 and G18) and two strains of MAP (C & L1).
Project description:Infection of cattle with Mycobacterium bovis causes severe financial hardship in many countries, in addition to presenting a health risk for humans. As an intracellular pathogen, M. bovis, adapted to survive and thrive within the intramacrophage environment. However, little is known about expression patterns in the macrophage, particularly in the bovine host. In this study, DNA microarray analysis was used to detect genes expressed in Holstein bovine macrophages derived from peripheral blood mononuclear cells infected during four hours with two Argentinean strains of M. bovis, a virulent strain, 04-303 and an attenuated strain, 534. Genes encoding antrax toxin receptor, cell division and apoptosis regulator, ankyrin proteins that are found within the membrane associated cytoskeleton, protein of cell differentiation and regulators of endocytic traffic of membrane were more strongly expressed in infected macrophages. Blood from healthy Holstein bovines was taken in sterile conditions and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were separated from heparinized blood. PBMCs were used to prepare ten independent cultures which were incubated at 37C for one week in RPMI 1640 complete medium supplemented with 10% of autologous plasma. Four cultures were infected with viable cells of M. bovis virulent strain 04-303, four with avirulent strain 534 and two were left as uninfected controls. Four hours post infection, the cells were scraped, lysed. RNA was extracted, labeled and hybridized to ten Affymetrix Bovine Genome arrays.
Project description:Mycobacterial Ser/Thr kinases play a critical role in bacterial physiology and pathogenesis. Linking kinases to the substrates they phosphorylate in vivo, thereby elucidating their exact functions, is still a challenge. The aim of this work was to associate protein phosphorylation in mycobacteria with important subsequent macro cellular events by identifying the physiological substrates of PknG in Mycobacterium bovis BCG. The study compared the phosphoproteome dynamics during the batch growth of M. bovis BGC versus the respective PknG knock-out mutant (ΔPknG-BCG) strains.
Project description:Mycobacterium bovis is an intracellular pathogen that causes tuberculosis in cattle. Following infection, the pathogen resides and persists inside host macrophages by subverting host immune responses via a diverse range of mechanisms. Here, a high-density bovine microarray platform was used to examine the bovine monocyte-derived macrophage transcriptome response to M. bovis infection relative to infection with the attenuated vaccine strain, M. bovis Bacille Calmette–Guérin. Differentially expressed genes were identified (adjusted P-value ≤ 0.01) and interaction networks generated across an infection time course of 2, 6 and 24 h. The largest number of biological interactions was observed in the 24 h network, which exhibited small-worldscale-free network properties. The 24 h network featured a small number of key hub and bottleneck gene nodes, including IKBKE, MYC, NFKB1 and EGR1 that differentiated the macrophage response to virulent and attenuated M. bovis strains, possibly via the modulation of host cell death mechanisms. These hub and bottleneck genes represent possible targets for immunomodulation of host macrophages by virulent mycobacterial species that enable their survival within a hostile environment.
Project description:Mycobacterium bovis is an intracellular pathogen that causes tuberculosis in cattle. Following infection, the pathogen resides and persists inside host macrophages by subverting host immune responses via a diverse range of mechanisms. Here, a high-density bovine microarray platform was used to examine the bovine monocyte-derived macrophage transcriptome response to M. bovis infection relative to infection with the attenuated vaccine strain, M. bovis Bacille CalmetteM-bM-^@M-^SGuM-CM-)rin. Differentially expressed genes were identified (adjusted P-value M-bM-^IM-$ 0.01) and interaction networks generated across an infection time course of 2, 6 and 24 h. The largest number of biological interactions was observed in the 24 h network, which exhibited small-worldscale-free network properties. The 24 h network featured a small number of key hub and bottleneck gene nodes, including IKBKE, MYC, NFKB1 and EGR1 that differentiated the macrophage response to virulent and attenuated M. bovis strains, possibly via the modulation of host cell death mechanisms. These hub and bottleneck genes represent possible targets for immunomodulation of host macrophages by virulent mycobacterial species that enable their survival within a hostile environment. Affymetrix GeneChipM-BM-. Bovine Genome Arrays were used to examine gene expression from a paired comparison of bovine monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) after in vitro challenge with Mycobacterium bovis versus M. bovis BCG across a time series of 2 hr, 6 hr and 24 hr post-challenge.
Project description:Infection of cattle with Mycobacterium bovis causes severe financial hardship in many countries, in addition to presenting a health risk for humans. As an intracellular pathogen, M. bovis, adapted to survive and thrive within the intramacrophage environment. However, little is known about expression patterns in the macrophage, particularly in the bovine host. In this study, DNA microarray analysis was used to detect genes expressed in Holstein bovine macrophages derived from peripheral blood mononuclear cells infected during four hours with two Argentinean strains of M. bovis, a virulent strain, 04-303 and an attenuated strain, 534. Genes encoding antrax toxin receptor, cell division and apoptosis regulator, ankyrin proteins that are found within the membrane associated cytoskeleton, protein of cell differentiation and regulators of endocytic traffic of membrane were more strongly expressed in infected macrophages.