Comparison of mouse macrophages and reproductive tract epithelial cells at baseline and in an inflammatory milieu mimicking a Chlamydia genital tract infection
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ABSTRACT: Chlamydia trachomatis urogenital serovars are intracellular bacteria that parasitize human reproductive tract epithelium. As the principal cell type supporting bacterial replication, epithelial cells are central to Chlamydia immunobiology initially as sentries and innate defenders, and subsequently as collaborators in adaptive immunity-mediated bacterial clearance. In asymptomatic individuals who do not seek medical care a decisive struggle between C. trachomatis and host defenses occurs at the epithelial interface. For this study we modeled the immunobiology of epithelial cells and macrophages lining healthy genital mucosa and inflamed/infected mucosa during the transition from innate to adaptive immunity. Upper reproductive tract epithelial cell line responses were compared to bone marrow-derived macrophages utilizing gene expression microarray technology. Those comparisons showed minor differences in the intrinsic innate defenses of macrophages and epithelial cells. Major lineage-specific differences in immunobiology relate to epithelial collaboration with adaptive immunity including an epithelial requirement for inflammatory cytokines to express MHC class II molecules, and a paucity and imbalance between costimulatory and coinhibitory ligands on epithelial cells that potentially limits sterilizing immunity (replication termination) to Chlamydia-specific T cells activated with limited or unconventional second signals. 2 mouse reproductive tract epithelial cell lines compared to bone marrow macrophages untreated vs. treated with inflammatory supernatant (4 replicates each). Contributor: The Indiana University Center for Medical Genomics- Jeanette McClintick
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Raymond Johnson
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-74317 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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