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ArticleScientific reports2015

RNA sequencing provides exquisite insight into the manipulation of the alveolar macrophage by tubercle bacilli.

Nicolas C Nalpas, David A Magee, Kevin M Conlon, John A Browne, Claire Healy, Kirsten E McLoughlin, Kévin Rue-Albrecht, Paul A McGettigan, Kate E Killick, Eamonn Gormley and 2 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicolas C NalpasAnimal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
David A MageeAnimal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Kevin M ConlonUCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
John A BrowneAnimal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Claire HealyUCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Kirsten E McLoughlinAnimal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Kévin Rue-AlbrechtAnimal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Paul A McGettiganAnimal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Kate E KillickSystems Biology Ireland, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Eamonn GormleyTuberculosis Diagnostics and Immunology Research Centre, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Stephen V GordonUCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
David E MacHughAnimal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
University College Dublin · IE

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 097429/Z/11/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mycobacterium bovis, the agent of bovine tuberculosis, causes an estimated $3 billion annual losses to global agriculture due, in part, to the limitations of current diagnostics. Development of next-generation diagnostics requires a greater understanding of the interaction between the pathogen and the bovine host. Therefore, to explore the early response of the alveolar macrophage to infection, we report the first application of RNA-sequencing to define, in exquisite detail, the transcriptomes of M. bovis-infected and non-infected alveolar macrophages from ten calves at 2, 6, 24 and 48 hours post-infection. Differentially expressed sense genes were detected at these time points that revealed enrichment of innate immune signalling functions, and transcriptional suppression of host defence mechanisms (e.g., lysosome maturation). We also detected differentially expressed natural antisense transcripts, which may play a role in subverting innate immune mechanisms following infection. Furthermore, we report differential expression of novel bovine genes, some of which have immune-related functions based on orthology with human proteins. This is the first in-depth transcriptomics investigation of the alveolar macrophage response to the early stages of M. bovis infection and reveals complex patterns of gene expression and regulation that underlie the immunomodulatory mechanisms used by M. bovis to evade host defence mechanisms.

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AnimalsCatsCattleComputational BiologyDEAD-box RNA HelicasesGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHost-Pathogen InteractionsLysosomesMacrophages, AlveolarMaleMolecular Sequence AnnotationMycobacterium bovisReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearReproducibility of ResultsDEAD-box RNA HelicasesReceptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear

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PMID26346536
PMCPMC4642568
OpenAlexW1636999010

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