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Characterization of Trichuris muris secreted proteins and extracellular vesicles provides new insights into host-parasite communication.

ABSTRACT: Whipworms are parasitic nematodes that live in the gut of more than 500 million people worldwide. Owing to the difficulty in obtaining parasite material, the mouse whipworm Trichuris muris has been extensively used as a model to study human whipworm infections. These nematodes secrete a multitude of compounds that interact with host tissues where they orchestrate a parasitic existence. Herein we provide the first comprehensive characterization of the excretory/secretory products of T. muris. We identify 148 proteins secreted by T. muris and show for the first time that the mouse whipworm secretes exosome-like extracellular vesicles (EVs) that can interact with host cells. We use an Optiprep® gradient to purify the EVs, highlighting the suitability of this method for purifying EVs secreted by a parasitic nematode. We also characterize the proteomic and genomic content of the EVs, identifying >350 proteins, 56 miRNAs (22 novel) and 475 full-length mRNA transcripts mapping to T. muris gene models. Many of the miRNAs putatively mapped to mouse genes are involved in regulation of inflammation, implying a role in parasite-driven immunomodulation. In addition, for the first time to our knowledge, colonic organoids have been used to demonstrate the internalization of parasite EVs by host cells. Understanding how parasites interact with their host is crucial to develop new control measures. This first characterization of the proteins and EVs secreted by T. muris provides important information on whipworm-host communication and forms the basis for future studies.

SUBMITTER: Eichenberger RM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5795766 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Characterization of Trichuris muris secreted proteins and extracellular vesicles provides new insights into host-parasite communication.

Eichenberger Ramon M RM Talukder Md Hasanuzzaman MH Field Matthew A MA Wangchuk Phurpa P Giacomin Paul P Loukas Alex A Sotillo Javier J

Journal of extracellular vesicles 20180121 1

Whipworms are parasitic nematodes that live in the gut of more than 500 million people worldwide. Owing to the difficulty in obtaining parasite material, the mouse whipworm Trichuris muris has been extensively used as a model to study human whipworm infections. These nematodes secrete a multitude of compounds that interact with host tissues where they orchestrate a parasitic existence. Herein we provide the first comprehensive characterization of the excretory/secretory products of T. ...[more]

PMID: 29410780

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Project description:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as a ubiquitous component of helminth excretory-secretory products that can deliver parasite molecules to host cells to elicit immunomodulatory effects. RNAs are one type of cargo molecule that can underpin EV functions, hence there is extensive interest in characterising the RNAs that are present in EVs from different helminth species. Here we outline methods for identifying all of the small RNAs (sRNA) in helminth EVs and address how different methodologies may influence the sRNAs detected. We show that different EV purification methods introduce relatively little variation in the sRNAs that are detected, and that different RNA library preparation methods yielded larger differences. We compared the EV sRNAs in the gastrointestinal nematode Heligmosomoides bakeri with those in EVs from the distantly related gastrointestinal nematode Trichuris muris, and found that many of the sRNAs in both organisms derive from repetitive elements or intergenic regions. However, only in H. bakeri do these RNAs contain a 5' triphosphate, and Guanine (G) starting nucleotide, consistent with their biogenesis by RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs). Distinct microRNA (miRNA) families are carried in EVs from each parasite, with H. bakeri EVs specific for miR-71, miR-49, miR-63, miR-259 and miR-240 gene families, and T. muris EVs specific for miR-1, miR-1822 and miR-252, and enriched for miR-59, miR-72 and miR-44 families, with the miR-9, miR-10, miR-80 and let-7 families abundant in both. We found a larger proportion of miRNA reads derive from the mouse host in T. muris EVs, compared with H. bakeri EVs. Our report underscores potential biases in the sRNAs sequenced based on library preparation methods, suggests specific nematode lineages have evolved distinct sRNA synthesis/export pathways, and highlights specific differences in EV miRNAs from H. bakeri and T. muris that may underpin functional adaptation to their host niches.

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