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DNA methylome in spleen of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli-challenged broilers and integration with mRNA expression.

ABSTRACT: Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) are responsible for heavy economic losses in poultry industry. Here we investigate DNA methylome of spleen and identify functional DNA methylation changes related to host response to APEC among groups of non-challenged chickens (NC), challenged with mild (MD) and severe pathology (SV). DNA methylation was enriched in the gene bodies and repeats. Promoter and CGIs are hypomethylated. Integration analysis revealed 22, 87, and 9 genes exhibiting inversely changed DNA methylation and gene expression in NC vs. MD, NC vs. SV, and MD vs. SV, respectively. IL8, IL2RB, and IL1RAPL1 were included. Gene network analysis suggested that besides inflammatory response, other networks and pathways such as organismal injury and abnormalities, cell signaling and molecular transport, are probably related to host response to APEC infection. Moreover, methylation changes in cell cycle processes might contribute to the lesion phenotype differences between MD and SV.

SUBMITTER: Xu H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3944351 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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DNA methylome in spleen of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli-challenged broilers and integration with mRNA expression.

Xu Haiping H Zhu Xuenong X Hu Yongsheng Y Li Zhenhui Z Zhang Xiquan X Nie Qinghua Q Nolan Lisa K LK Lamont Susan J SJ

Scientific reports 20140306

Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) are responsible for heavy economic losses in poultry industry. Here we investigate DNA methylome of spleen and identify functional DNA methylation changes related to host response to APEC among groups of non-challenged chickens (NC), challenged with mild (MD) and severe pathology (SV). DNA methylation was enriched in the gene bodies and repeats. Promoter and CGIs are hypomethylated. Integration analysis revealed 22, 87, and 9 genes exhibiting inversely ch ...[more]

PMID: 24599154

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Project description:BACKGROUND: Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is detrimental to poultry health and its zoonotic potential is a food safety concern. Regulation of antimicrobials in food-production animals has put greater focus on enhancing host resistance to bacterial infections through genetics. To better define effective mechanism of host resistance, global gene expression in the spleen of chickens, harvested at two times post-infection (PI) with APEC, was measured using microarray technology, in a design that will enable investigation of effects of vaccination, challenge, and pathology level. RESULTS: There were 1,101 genes significantly differentially expressed between severely infected and non-infected groups on day 1 PI and 1,723 on day 5 PI. Very little difference was seen between mildly infected and non-infected groups on either time point. Between birds exhibiting mild and severe pathology, there were 2 significantly differentially expressed genes on day 1 PI and 799 on day 5 PI. Groups with greater pathology had more genes with increased expression than decreased expression levels. Several predominate immune pathways, Toll-like receptor, Jak-STAT, and cytokine signaling, were represented between challenged and non-challenged groups. Vaccination had, surprisingly, no detectible effect on gene expression, although it significantly protected the birds from observable gross lesions. Functional characterization of significantly expressed genes revealed unique gene ontology classifications during each time point, with many unique to a particular treatment or class contrast. CONCLUSIONS: More severe pathology caused by APEC infection was associated with a high level of gene expression differences and increase in gene expression levels. Many of the significantly differentially expressed genes were unique to a particular treatment, pathology level or time point. The present study not only investigates the transcriptomic regulations of APEC infection, but also the degree of pathology associated with that infection. This study will allow for greater discovery into host mechanisms for disease resistance, providing targets for marker assisted selection and advanced drug development.

Project description:Many studies have examined avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) from commercial broilers but few have examined isolates from native chickens. This study compared APEC isolates from commercial broilers and native chickens in regard to the phylogenetic group and the phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance profiles. From 100 suspect colibacillosis cases in both commercial broilers and native chickens, a total of 90 broiler isolates and 42 native chicken isolates were identified as E. coli by biochemical tests. Phylogenetic grouping revealed that 90 broiler APEC isolates belonged to A group (5.56%), B1 group (22.22%), B2 group (31.11%), and D group (41.11%). The 42 native chicken APEC isolates belonged to A group (35.71%), B1 group (26.19%), B2 group (30.95%), and D group (7.14%). The difference in the allocation to groups A and D of the 2 isolate types was significant (P < 0.05). The APEC broiler isolates had a significantly higher multidrug-resistant (MDR) rate (80%) than the native chicken isolates (14.29%) (P < 0.05). The APEC broiler isolates demonstrated significantly higher resistance rates than the native chicken isolates for amoxicillin (98.89%; 78.57% respectively), chloramphenicol (42.2%; 9.5%), enrofloxacin (68.9%; 7.1%), gentamicin (11.1%; 0%), nalidixic acid (72.2%; 7.1%), sulfamethoxazole + trimethoprim (45.6%; 2.4%), and tetracycline (88.9%; 76.2%) (P < 0.05). The APEC broiler isolates had a significantly higher presence compared with the native chicken isolates of the following resistance genes:- by blaTEM (43.3%; 21.4%, respectively), cml-A (34.4%; 2.4%), tetA (76.7%; 40.5%), tetB (26.7%; 0%), sul2 (23.3%; 14.3%), and dhfrI (13.3%; 0%) (P < 0.05). The qnrB and qnrS genes were detected (12.16%; 72.97% respectively), in the APEC broiler isolates resistant to nalidixic acid and/or enrofloxacin while only qnrS genes was detected in all 3 APEC native chicken isolates. Regarding the point mutations of gyrA and parC, all isolates were positive to gyrA83S, gyrA87D, gyrA87L, gyrA87NY, parC80S and parC80I except that gyrA83S was not present in 20 APEC broiler isolates. Antimicrobial stewardship programs should be targeted at the backyard poultry sector as well as the commercial poultry sector.

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DNA methylome in spleen of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli-challenged broilers and integration with mRNA expression.

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DNA methylome in spleen of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli-challenged broilers and integration with mRNA expression.

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