Low Dose Gamma Irradiation of Trypanosoma evansi Parasites Identifies Gene Transcripts Involved in Establishing Disease in Mice Post Irradiation
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ORGANISM(S): Trypanosoma evansi
PROVIDER: GSE202334 | GEO | 2023/05/06
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma evansi is responsible for causing Surra in a variety of mammalian hosts over a wide geographical area. In order to identify which genes and processes are required to establish disease in mice, parasites were irradiated over a range using a Cobalt60 gamma source. A custom Trypanosome spp. array that covers the genomes of three trypanosome species, T. brucei, T. evansi and T. congolense was designed by Affymetrix with an average of 9300 whole gene transcripts from all three species were targeted. Irradiation differentially affected the abundance of gene transcripts in a dose-dependent trend. We present these genes as necessary for repair from irradiation damage, and essential for disease establishment in mice post irradiation.
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2023-10-22 | PXD035426 | Pride
Project description:Trypanosomatid parasites undergo developmental regulation to adapt to the different environments encountered during their life cycle. In Trypanosoma brucei, a genome wide selectional screen previously identified a regulator of the protein family ESAG9, which is highly expressed in stumpy forms, a morphologically distinct bloodstream stage adapted for tsetse transmission. This regulator, TbREG9.1, has an orthologue in Trypanosoma congolense, despite the absence of a stumpy morphotype in that parasite species, which is an important cause of livestock trypanosomosis. RNAi mediated gene silencing of TcREG9.1 in Trypanosoma congolense caused a loss of attachment of the parasites to a surface substrate in vitro, a key feature of the biology of these parasites that is distinct from T. brucei. This detachment was phenocopied by treatment of the parasites with a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, which also promotes detachment in the insect trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata. RNAseq analysis revealed that TcREG9.1 silencing caused the upregulation of mRNAs for several classes of surface molecules, including transferrin receptor-like molecules, immunodominant proteins, and molecules related to those associated with stumpy development in T. brucei. Depletion of TcREG9.1 in vivo also generated an enhanced level of parasites in the blood circulation consistent with reduced parasite attachment to the microvasculature. The morphological progression to insect forms of the parasite was also perturbed. We propose a model whereby TcREG9.1 acts as a regulator of attachment and development, with detached parasites being adapted for transmission.
2024-02-19 | GSE249623 | GEO
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2021-01-22 | GSE165290 | GEO
Project description:Transmission of Trypanosoma brucei by tsetse flies involves the deposition of the infective quiescent metacyclic stage into the mammalian skin at the site of the fly’s bite. In the skin, the metacyclic parasites reactivate and differentiate into proliferative trypanosomes before colonizing the host's blood and tissues. We have generated an advanced human skin equivalent and used tsetse flies to naturally infect the artificial skin with trypanosomes. We have detailed the chronological order of the parasites' development in the skin and found a rapid activation and differentiation of the tsetse-transmitted cell cycle‑arrested metacyclic trypanosomes to proliferative parasites. Single-parasite transcriptomics documented the biological events during differentiation and host invasion at five different time points. After the establishment of a proliferative trypanosome population in the skin, the parasites entered a reversible quiescence program characterized by slow replication and a strongly reduced metabolism. We termed these quiescent trypanosomes skin tissue forms (STF), which may play an important role in maintaining the trypanosome infection in aparasitemic, asymptomatic individuals.
2021-05-30 | GSE174198 | GEO
Project description:<p>Livestock diseases caused by Trypanosoma congolense, T. vivax and T. brucei, collectively known as nagana, are responsible for billions of dollars in lost food production annually. There is an urgent need for novel therapeutics. Encouragingly, promising antitrypanosomal benzoxaboroles are under veterinary development. Here, we show that the most efficacious subclass of these compounds are prodrugs activated by trypanosome serine carboxypeptidases (CBPs). Drug-resistance to a development candidate, AN11736, emerged readily in T. brucei, due to partial deletion within the locus containing three tandem copies of the CBP genes. T. congolense parasites, which possess a larger array of related CBPs, also developed resistance to AN11736 through deletion within the locus. A genome-scale screen in T. brucei confirmed CBP loss-of-function as the primary mechanism of resistance and CRISPR-Cas9 editing proved that partial deletion within the locus was sufficient to confer resistance. CBP re-expression in either T. brucei or T. congolense AN11736-resistant lines restored drug-susceptibility. CBPs act by cleaving the benzoxaborole AN11736 to a carboxylic acid derivative, revealing a prodrug activation mechanism. Loss of CBP activity results in massive reduction in net uptake of AN11736, indicating that entry is facilitated by the concentration gradient created by prodrug metabolism.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>T. congolense assay</strong> is reported in the current study <a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/MTBLS1309' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'><strong>MTBLS1309</strong></a>.</p><p><strong>T. brucei assay</strong> is reported in <a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/MTBLS1474' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'><strong>MTBLS1474</strong></a>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Linked cross omic data sets:</strong></p><p>Genome data associated with this study are available in the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA): accession number <a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB34627' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'>PRJEB34627</a>.</p>
2020-10-22 | MTBLS1309 | MetaboLights
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2023-05-04 | PXD038486 | Pride
Project description:Question Addresses: What is the gene expression profile from human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and human Jurkat T cells after irradiation (IR)? What, if any, is the effect of co-culturing these two cell types on gene expression? There are eight experimental conditions for this experiment: (1) non-irradiated HUVEC; (2) irradiated HUVEC; (3) non-irradiated Jurkat; (4) irradiated Jurkat; (5) non-irradiated HUVEC + non-irradiated Jurkat+; (6) non-irradiated HUVEC + irradiated Jurkat; (7) irradiated HUVEC + non-irradiated Jurkat; (8) irradiated HUVEC + irradiated Jurkat. A common, pooled reference consisting of RNA taken from conditions 1-8 as described above was used for all hybridizations.
2022-06-03 | GSE39019 | GEO