Project description:Bacterial infections cause exaserbations in COPD. Study conducted to asses the effect of Nemiralisib, a PI3Kdelta inhibitor, on S. pneumoniae infected mice
Project description:This experiment is an additional experiment to GSE6688. Mouse macrophages (ANA-1 cells) were infected in vitro with C. pneumoniae with a M.O.I. of 10. Twenty two genes were significantly upregulated. Examples of the most upregulated genes in mouse macrophages after C. pneumoniae infection are serum amyloid A3 (saa3), a protein that is mainly produced by activated macrophages during tissue injury or inflammation, MIP-2 (cxcl2) and irg1. Expression levels of all genes induced by C. pneumoniae in macrophages in vitro correlated with the results obtained from infected lungs from wild type mice (GSE6688), suggesting that this cell type participates in host defense in vivo against C. pneumoniae. Keywords: Chlamydia pneumoniae, ANA-1 macrophages, in vitro, infection
Project description:Chlamydia pneumoniae, an obligate intracellular bacterium, causes pneumonia in humans and mice. Toll-like receptors and the key adaptor molecule MyD88 play a critical role in inducing immunity against this microorganism and are crucial to survive the infection. To explore the influence of MyD88 on induction of immune responses in vivo on a genome wide level, WT or MyD88-/- mice were infected with C. pneumoniae upon anesthesia and the pulmonary transcriptome was analyzed three days later by microarrays. We find that the infection induced the transcription of 360 genes and repressed 18 genes in WT mice. Of these, 221 genes were not or weakly induced in lungs of MyD88-/- mice. This cluster contains primarily genes encoding for chemokines, cytokines and other immune effector molecules. Genes induced by interferons were abundant in a cluster of 102 genes which were only partially MyD88-dependent. Interestingly, a set of 37 genes were induced more strongly in MyD88-/- mice and most of them are involved in the regulation of cellular replication. In summary, ex vivo analysis of the pulmonary transcriptome upon infection with C. pneumoniae demonstrated a major impact of MyD88 on inflammatory responses but not on interferon-type responses, and identified MyD88-independent genes involved in cellular replication Experiment Overall Design: Microarray analysis was performed in biological triplicates with RNA from individual mice derived from three independent infection experiments. Samples were lungs from wt and myd88 knock out mice, three days after Chlamydia pneumoniae or mock infection. Altogther 12 samples were analyzed on Affymetrix MOE430A arrays.
Project description:This experiment is an additional experiment to GSE6688. Mouse macrophages (ANA-1 cells) were infected in vitro with C. pneumoniae with a M.O.I. of 10. Twenty two genes were significantly upregulated. Examples of the most upregulated genes in mouse macrophages after C. pneumoniae infection are serum amyloid A3 (saa3), a protein that is mainly produced by activated macrophages during tissue injury or inflammation, MIP-2 (cxcl2) and irg1. Expression levels of all genes induced by C. pneumoniae in macrophages in vitro correlated with the results obtained from infected lungs from wild type mice (GSE6688), suggesting that this cell type participates in host defense in vivo against C. pneumoniae. Experiment Overall Design: ANA-1 macrophages were infected with Chlamydia pneumoniae or left untreated. After 8h total RNA was extracted. Two biological replicates were performed resulting in 4 arrays in total
Project description:Purpose:Investigated transcriptome profile changes in the lungs of infected mice at different time points, to increase our understanding of hvKp pulmonary infection and to screen for genes or targets of research value. microarray and quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT–PCR) methods and to evaluate protocols for optimal high-throughput data analysis Methods: Animals were randomly divided into four infection groups and one control group (five mice per group), and the infected mice were euthanized at 12, 24, 48 and 60 h post-infection (hpi), respectively, while the control group mice were euthanized immediately after delivery of PBS at the 0 h time point. The lungs of the mice were isolated and divided into two parts for subsequent histopathologic examination or total RNA extraction. Results: Using the control group (0 hpi) as a reference, 6247 DEGs were identified across four time points after hvKp infection. At 12 hpi, 939 upregulated DEGs and 439 downregulated DEGs were detected, and by 60 hpi, 2647 upregulated DEGs and 2806 downregulated DEGs were detected. Overall, the number of upregulated and downregulated DEGs increased over time and a total of 688 genes were upregulated and 240 genes downregulated in common for all time points. And 12 of these were validated with qRT–PCR. RNA-seq data had a linear relationship with qRT–PCR for more than four orders of magnitude and a goodness of fit (R2) of 0.9548. To get a more holistic view, DEGs were clustered into nine clusters according to their temporal expression patterns.WGCNA was performed with the detected DEGs. The dynamic tree cutting algorithm in the WGCNA package was used to process the hierarchical clustering tree, and a total of 28 different modules were finally obtained. Conclusions: Our work both validates the results of previous studies on K. pneumoniae pulmonary infections and provides new additions and insights on hvKp pulmonary infections, which may contribute to the development of therapeutic approaches to reduce hvKp lung inflammation.
Project description:C3heB/FeJ mice were infected with M. tuberculosis to form necrotic granulomatous lesions. FFPE samples of infected lungs with granulomas were microdissected into three distinct regions, Caseum, foamy macrophage, and Cell. Proteins were extracted from microdissected samples, followed by LC-MS/MS.
Project description:Laser-based tissue microdissection of lungs from mice infected with A. fumigatus and the subsequent MALDI Imaging MS offers the possibility to excise defined regions and transfer them to the more sensitive and deeper LC-MS/MS-based proteome analysis. In case of host-pathogen interaction between mammalian cells and pathogenic fungi like A. fumigatus this combination opens up the possibility to elucidate this biological cross-talk together with spatial Information on the invasive fungal infection. Here, we provide for the first time insights into the in vivo proteome of murine lungs infected by A. fumigatus using MALDI-IMS and laser microdissection.