Project description:Porcine alveolar macrophages (PAMs) play an important role in innate immunity. Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is a pathogen responsible for several diseases in both pigs and humans. We used microarrays to study the transcriptome of PAMs infected with SS2.
Project description:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (SS2), an important zoonotic agent, is notorious for causing contagious porcine diseases and human infection. The two outbreaks in China (in 1998 and in 2005) have caused serious economic losses in the pig industry and posed public health for its new toxin shock symptoms (TSS). However, the molecular mechanism of SS2 pathogenicity is still poorly understood. In order to get insights into pathogenecity of SS2, eighteen SS2 strains of different virulence and sources have been subjected to whole genome comparison by NimbleGen CGS arrays
Project description:Two large-scale outbreaks of streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome (STSLS) have revealed Streptococcus suis 2 (SS2) to be a severe, evolving pathogen in humans. We investigated the mechanism by which SS2 causes STSLS. The transcriptional regulator TstS up-regulated during experimental infection. Compared with the wild type 05ZY strain, the tstS deletion mutant (∆tstS) elicited reduced cytokine secretion in macrophages. In mice, tstS deletion decreased virulence, bacterial load, and cytokine production. Moreover, TstS expression in P1/7 strain led to induction of STSLS in the infected mice. This is noteworthy because although virulent, P1/7 does not normally induce STSLS. Through microarray-based comparative transcriptomics analysis, we found that TstS regulates multiple metabolism related genes and several virulence-related genes associated with immune evasion.
Project description:Porcine alveolar macrophages (PAMs) play an important role in innate immunity. Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is a pathogen responsible for several diseases in both pigs and humans. We used microarrays to study the transcriptome of PAMs infected with SS2. Healthy pigs were inoculated intranasally with 2 ml of 4.84×10^6 colony-forming units of SS2 strain SC19. The PAMs were isolated at 7 dpi. RNA was extracted from PAMs obtained from infected pigs and control pigs, and hybridized on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Swine H1N1 influenza virus and streptococcus suis serotype 2 (SS2) are two important contributors to the porcine respiratory disease complex, which have significant economic impacts. Clinically, swine influenza virus and swine streptococcus suis co-infection is common, which will increase the mortality. However, the pathogenesis of the co-infection remains largely unkown. To explore it, gene expression profiling was to performed to detect comprehensive analysis of the global host response induced by H1N1 virus infection alone, SS2 infection alone, H1N1-SS2 co-infection and PBS control.
Project description:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (SS2), an important zoonotic agent, is notorious for causing contagious porcine diseases and human infection. The two outbreaks in China (in 1998 and in 2005) have caused serious economic losses in the pig industry and posed public health for its new toxin shock symptoms (TSS). However, the molecular mechanism of SS2 pathogenicity is still poorly understood. In order to get insights into pathogenecity of SS2, eighteen SS2 strains of different virulence and sources have been subjected to whole genome comparison by NimbleGen CGS arrays Comparative genomic analysis of 18 SS2 strains with 05ZYH33 as reference
Project description:MetQ gene of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 deletion strain has attenuated antiphagocytosis. However,the mechanism of antiphagocytosis and pathogenesis of MetQ in SS2 has remained unclear. In this study, stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) based liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and subsequent bioinformatics analysis was used to determine differentially expressed proteins of RAW264.7 cells infected with △MetQ and ZY05719, aimed at elucidating the mechanism of antiphagocytosis and innate immunity of macrophages infected by Streptococcus suis.
Project description:Streptococcus suis is an important zoonosis pathogen that causes significant economic losses worldwide characterized by meningitis, septicaemia, arthritis, bronchopneumonia endocarditis. Streptcoccus suis 2 strain SC19 was isolated in Sichuan province in China, during the outbreak in 2005. Septicemia is most popular symptoms for SC19 infection, and mortality is high. We used human acute monocytic leukemia cell line (THP-1) infected SC19 to analysis the pathomechanism of septicemia in SS2 infection.
Project description:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (SS2) is able to cause human infections ranging from superficial wounded skin infections to severe invasive infections such as meningitis and streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome (STSLS). During its infection cycle, SS2 must acclimatize itself to temperature shift. Herein, a whole-genome DNA microarray was used to investigate the global transcriptional regulation of an invasive SS2 strain grown to late-exponential phase at 29 or 40°C relative to 37°C. The detecting differentially regulated genes included those encoding virulence factors, antigenic proteins, ABC transporters and unknown functions. Our data provided a global profile of gene transcription induced by temperature alteration and shed light on some unforeseen lines for further pathogenesis investigation.
Project description:Swine streptococcosis has caused great economic loss in the swine industry, and the major pathogen responsible for this disease is Streptococcus Suis serotype 2 (SS2). Disease resistance breeding is a fundamental way of resolving this problem. With the development of GWAS and transcriptomic microarray technology, we now have powerful research tools to identify SS2 resistance genes. In this research, we generated an F2 generation of SS2 resistant C57BL/6 and SS2 susceptive A/J mice. With the F2 generation of these two mice strains and GWAS analysis, we identified 286 significant mouse genome SNPs sites associated with the SS2 resistance trait. Gene expression profiles for C57BL/6 and A/J were analyzed under SS2 infection pressure by microarray. In total, 251 differentially expressed genes were identified between these two mouse strains during SS2 infection. After combining the GWAS and gene expression profile data, we located two genes that were significantly associated with SS2 resistance, which were the UBA domain containing 1 gene (Ubac1) and Epsin 1 gene (Epn 1). GO classification and over-representation analysis revealed nine up-regulated related to immune function, which could potentially be involved in the C57BL/6 SS2 resistance trait. This is the first study to use both SNP chip and gene express profile chip for SS2 resistance gene identification in mouse, and these results will contribute to Swine SS2 resistance breeding.