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Microarray of IVM susceptable and resistant Haemonchus contortous

ABSTRACT: Anthelmintic resistance is a major problem in the global fight against parasitic nematodes., Most previous studies have focused on the analysis of potential candidate genes that may have a role in resistance. Here we take a novel approach in the important parasite, Haemonchus contortus, by investigating changes in microRNA expression between resistant and susceptible parasites. The resistant worms included two geographically distinct strains and two lines generated by multiple rounds of backcrossing between susceptible and resistant parents, with ivermectin selection. All four resistant strains showed increased abundance of a single miRNA, hco-miR-9551, compared to the susceptible strain. hco-miR-9551 is enriched in female worms, is likely to be located on the X chromosome and is found only in clade V parasitic nematodes. Approximately 5-10% of the genomes of the resistant parental strains are introgressed into the respective backcrosses, suggesting that hco-miR-9551, or genes regulated by the miRNA, may be genetically linked to a locus that determines resistance. Genes containing predicted binding sites for hco-miR-9551 were identified computationally and refined based on differential expression in a transcriptomic dataset. These findings advance our conceptual understanding of the molecular mechanisms of anthelmintic resistance in H. contortus and indicate that altered miRNA expression may be linked with drug resistance. All samples were carried out using three biological replicates

ORGANISM(S): Haemonchus contortus

SUBMITTER: Victoria Gillan

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-79542 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Infections and diseases caused by parasitic nematodes have a major adverse impact on the health and productivity of animals and humans worldwide. The control of these parasites often relies heavily on the treatment with commercially available chemical compounds (anthelmintics). However, the excessive or uncontrolled use of these compounds in livestock animals has led to major challenges linked to drug resistance in nematodes. Therefore, there is a need to develop new anthelmintics with novel mechanism(s) of action. Recently, we identified a small molecule, KM08948, with nematocidal activity against the free-living model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Here, we evaluated KM08948’s potential as an anthelmintic in a structure-activity relationship (SAR) study in C. elegans and in the highly pathogenic, blood-feeding Haemonchus contortus (barber’s pole worm), and explored the compound-target relationship using thermal proteome profiling (TPP). First, we synthesised and tested a series of 25 KM08948 analogues for nematocidal activity in both H. contortus (larvae and adults) and C. elegans (young adults), establishing a preliminary nematocidal pharmacophore for both species. We identified several compounds with marked activity against either H. contortus or C. elegans which had greater efficacy than KM08948, and found a significant divergence in compound bioactivity between these two nematode species. We also identified a KM08948 analogue, 25, that moderately inhibited the motility of adult female H. contortus in vitro. Subsequently, we inferred three H. contortus proteins (HCON_00134350, HCON_00021470 and HCON_00099760) and five C. elegans proteins (F30A10.9, F15B9.8, B0361.6, DNC-4 and UNC-11) that interacted directly with KM08948; however, no conserved protein target was shared between the two nematode species. Future work aims to extend the SAR investigation in these and other parasitic nematode species, and validate individual proteins identified here as targets of KM08948. Overall, the present study describes an evaluation of this anthelmintic candidate and highlights some challenges associated with early anthelmintic discovery.

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Microarray of IVM susceptable and resistant Haemonchus contortous

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