Project description:Analysis of Ly6Chi monocytes from small intestine lamina propria (SILP) and blood of day 8 Toxoplasma gondii infected mice at gene expression level. The hypothesis tested in the present study was that Ly6Chi monocytes from SILP have altered expression of regulatory factors to blood monocytes. Results provide important information on the regulatory to effector balance of genes expressed by Ly6Chi monocytes during an acute inflammatory response. Ly6Chi inflammatory monocytes were sorted by FACS from the blood or small intestine lamina propria (SILP) of Toxoplasma gondii infected C57BL/6 mice. Cells were isolated at day 8 after infection and total RNA obtained from sorted populations. Three biological replicates were acquired for both blood and SILP from pooled animals.
Project description:Toxoplasma gondii threats to the health of one-third of the world's population. Cat is the natural definite host of T. gondii. However, the biological changes of feline small intestine following T. gondii infection remains mysterious event. Protein acetylation modification which is a dynamic and reversible post-translational modification (PTM) plays important roles in regulating various physiological functions. In this study, we used affinity enrichment and high resolution LC-MS/MS to analyze the alteration of acetylation event in feline small intestine infected by Prugniuad (Pru) strain of Toxoplasma gondii.
Project description:The in vitro effect of infection with different strains of Toxoplasma gondii was tested 24 hours after infection of Human Foreskin Fibroblasts (HFF) The strains tested include RH, VEG, and transgenic strains of RH overexpressing ROP38 or ROP21 Total RNA of Toxoplasma gondii infected HFF cell was compared to uninfected cells
Project description:We generated a single-cell transcriptomic resource dataset encompassing the gene-expression patterns of circulating and small intestine intraepithelial CD8+ T cells in response to viral infection. Our analyses revealed a core transcriptional program shared between circulating memory and tissue-resident memory (TRM) cells, along with key differences in the kinetics and magnitude of gene expression between these two memory CD8+ T lymphocyte subtypes. Moreover, we elucidated previously unappreciated heterogeneity within the small intestine intraepithelial CD8+ T cell pool at multiple time points following infection.
Project description:Expression profile microarray of human foreskin fibroblast cell comparing control untreated HFF cell with HFF cell infected with ME49 strain.Study on Toxoplasma gondii infection of HFF cell LncRNAs expression, for further studies on the differential exprssion of LncRNAs in HFF cell against the infection of Toxoplasma gondii research provide the basic function.
Project description:Understanding altered expression of proteins and transcripts associated with Toxoplasma gondii infection in cats may improve our understanding of how this parasite manipulates the molecular microenvironment of the definitive host. We performed proteomics analysis of six organs (brain, heart, spleen, liver, lung and small intestine) in cats acutely infected with T. gondii. A total of 32,657 proteins were identified among the six examined organs, including 2,556 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs), of which 1,325 DEPs were up-regulated and 1,231 DEPs were down-regulated. The brain, liver, lung, spleen, heart and small intestine exhibited 125 DEPs, 463 DEPs, 255 DEPs, 283 DEPs, 855 DEPs and 675 DEPs, respectively. Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analysis were performed on all proteins and DEPs in all organs, showed that many proteins were enriched in binding, cell part, cell growth and death, signal transduction, translation, sorting and degradation and immune system. Correlation between proteins and transcripts with differential expression patterns were detected in the heart (n = 9), liver (n = 19), lung (n = 9), small intestine (n = 17), and spleen (n = 3). These DEPs were mainly involved in immune response, tryptophan catabolism, and extracellular matrix remodeling. Future investigations are needed to identify the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the reported associations between the identified proteins and transcripts and T. gondii infection.
Project description:The intestinal epithelium comprises the body’s largest surface exposed to viruses. Additionally, the gut epithelium hosts a large population of intraepithelial T lymphocytes, or IELs, although their role in resistance against viral infections remain elusive. By fate-mapping T cells recruited to the murine intestine, we observed accumulation of newly recruited CD4+ T cells after infection with murine norovirus CR6 and adenovirus type-2 (AdV), but not reovirus. CR6 and AdV-recruited intraepithelial CD4+ T cells co-express Ly6A and CCR9, exhibit T helper 1 and cytotoxic profiles and confer protection against AdV in vivo and in an organoid model in an IFN-g-dependent manner. Ablation of the T cell receptor (TCR) or the transcription factor ThPOK in CD4+ T cells prior to AdV infection prevented viral control, while TCR ablation during infection did not impact viral clearance. These results uncover a protective role for intraepithelial Ly6A+CCR9+CD4+ T cells against enteric adenovirus.
Project description:We tested the relevance of an established stem-cell-derived model of trophoblast development to Toxoplasma gondii infection. Human trophoblast stem cells were cultured under conditions suitable for cytotrophoblast cells or for the differentiation into syncytiotrophoblasts, and subsequently infected with T. gondii. RNA-seq data from both mock-treated and infected cells revealed differences between cell types and their respective responses to T. gondii infection.
Project description:Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite, which can invade most nucleated cells and proliferate inside the cells. During the process of T. gondii invasion and proliferate inside host cells, the cellular signal transduction network of the infected cells undergoing extensive changes. Phosphorylation is one of the most important post-translational modifications of proteins, and plays an important role in the process of cell signal transmission. To clarify how T. gondii regulates the host cell signal transduction process, in this study, we used titanium dioxide (TiO2) affinity chromatography to enrich the phosphopeptides in feline small intestine at 10 days post infection of T. gondii Prugniuad (Pru) strain, and quantify the phosphopeptides by using iTRAQ technology.