Project description:Mice were infected with LCMV Cl13 and food intake was measured up to 8dpi. Another group of uninfected mice received the amount of food the infected mice consumed. The third group of naïve mice received food ad libitum.
Project description:We report that the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is a previously unappreciated long-term reservoir of chronic LCMV-Cl13 infection, and, chronic viral replication in the GIT has a profound effect on the local immune compartment as well as the development of subsequent immune responses. CD45+ immune cells were sorted and analyzed by RNAseq from the small and large intestines of naive mice, or mice infected 30 days prior with LCMV-Arm (acute virus) or LCMV-Cl13 (chronic virus). We show that GIT immune cells from acute and chronically infected mice differ substantially from naive mice; chronically infected mice show increases in genetic pathways involved in T cell activation and killing, inflammasome activation and interferon signaling; chronically infected mice show reduced expression of genes involved in T cell memory and antigen presenting cell activation; and chronic infection induces metabolic changes unique to the small but not large intestinal immune compartment.
Project description:Age- and sex-matched (male, 2-3 months old) ERT2 AlbCre Ifnar fl/fl and ERT2 AlbCre Ifnar +/+ mice were injected intraperitoneally with 40 mg/kg tamoxifen for 5 consective days. Mice were then intravenously infected with 2x10^6 focus forming units of LCMV Cl13 and liver tissue of either genotype was harvested 1.5 days post infection and analyzed for transcriptomic changes (n = 3). Liver tissue of uninfected animals of both genotypes was harvested as control (n = 3).
Project description:Altered CD8 T cell differentiation and functional exhaustion prevent control of chronic virus infection and cancer. Yet, how fate commitment and exhaustion are determined and dynamically modulated throughout persistent infection are unclear. We compared the activation and differentiation of LCMV GP33-specific CD8 TCR transgenic cells (P14) primed at the onset versus in the midst of established persistent LCMV-Clone 13 viral infection. LCMV GP33-specific CD8 TCR transgenic (P14) cells were injected into naïve mice immediately infected with LCMV-Cl13 (Early priming) or into mice that had been infected 21 days earlier with LCMV-Cl13 (Late Priming). Sixty hours post-priming P14 cells were sorted from mice and subjected to RNA seq. We show early primed cells very rapidly exhibit a transcriptional profile of robust activation, effector differentiation and dysfunction, while late primed cells have increased expression of genes involved in memory differentiation and maintenance.
Project description:Investigation of the change of the Trail-dependent NK cell transcriptome during short-term (24h) infection with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV). RNA sequencing-based transcriptomics analysis was performed in spleen-isolated (NK1.1+CD3-) NK cells from 3 naïve Trail+/+ mice, 3 naive Trail-/- mice, 4 LCMV-infected Trail+/+ mice, and 4 LCMV-infected Trail-/- mice.
Project description:Transcriptome analysis of CD4+ PD1+ T cells during LCMV CL13 infection Gene expression in WT and ERt2-cre;TGFbRII flox virus specific CD4 T cells Mixed chimeras of WT:ERt2cre+TGFbRII flox/flox were infected 9 days with LCMV and splenic CD4+ PD1+CD49d+ Cd8a- T cells sorted from each compartment by congenic marker
Project description:To identify mechanisms behind immunosuppression during virus infections, we infected mice with LCMV-Armstrong and LCMV-Clone 13 expression patterns. LCMV-Armstrong induces a T-cell reaction that resolves infection within 8-10 days, while LCMV-Clone13 generates a persisten infection through immunosuppression. We used microarray to uncover splenic gene expression patterns specific to each LCMV infection at 5, 9, and 30 days C57BL6 mice, 6-10 weeks old, were infected with LCMV-Armstrong and LCMV-Clone 13 or left uninfected (naïve). At days 5, 9, and 30 whole spleens were harvested for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetric microarray.