Transcriptomic (RNAseq) analysis of reovirus-induced host responses in mesenteric lymph node of interferon alpha/beta receptor (IFNabR) knockout and WT mouse.
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ABSTRACT: Analysis of reovirus-induced host responses at the level of gene expression. Results provide insights into how reovirus infection breaks tolerance to dietary antigens and promotes the development of celiac disease.
Project description:Analysis of reovirus-induced host responses at the level of gene expression. Results provide insights into how reovirus infection breaks tolerance to dietary antigens and promotes the development of celiac disease.
Project description:mRNA profiles of 8 weeks old C57BL/6 mice 2 days after infections with 5e7 pfu of various strains of murine norovirus (MNV) or 1e8 pfu of T1L reovirus were evauated
Project description:Obesity has emerged as a worldwide problem in human health. Dietary lipids are taken up and transported via lymphatics into the circulatory system. During this process, lipids pass the mesenteric lymph node (mLN). These organs filter the lymph fluid for foreign antigens to induce and control immune responses. Alteration of that function during obesity has only slightly been studied. Here, we characterize changes within the microarchitecture of the mLN during high levels of lipid transport and highlight the role of stromal cells. Microarray experiments detected gene probes expressed by mLN stromal cells. Transmission electron microscopy enabled us to identify lipid droplets in different stromal cells, and in macrophages. Sizes, numbers and intercellular distances increased after 10 weeks of a high-fat diet. Thus, we propose that changes in the microarchitecture and increased accumulation of lipid droplets in stromal cells and macrophages have an influence on the immunological function of the mLN.
Project description:Obesity has emerged as a worldwide problem in human health. Dietary lipids are taken up and transported via lymphatics into the circulatory system. During this process, lipids pass the mesenteric lymph node (mLN). These organs filter the lymph fluid for foreign antigens to induce and control immune responses. Alteration of that function during obesity has only slightly been studied. Here, we characterize changes within the microarchitecture of the mLN during high levels of lipid transport and highlight the role of stromal cells. Microarray experiments detected gene probes expressed by mLN stromal cells. Transmission electron microscopy enabled us to identify lipid droplets in different stromal cells, and in macrophages. Sizes, numbers and intercellular distances increased after 10 weeks of a high-fat diet. Thus, we propose that changes in the microarchitecture and increased accumulation of lipid droplets in stromal cells and macrophages have an influence on the immunological function of the mLN.
Project description:Lymphoid organ hypertrophy is a characteristic feature of acute infection and is considered to enable efficient induction of adaptive immune responses. Accordingly, oral infection with rotavirus induced a robust increase in cellularity in the mesenteric LNs, whose kinetics correlated with viral load and was caused by halted lymphocyte egress and increased recruitment of cells without altered cellular proliferation. Lymphocyte sequestration and mesenteric LN hypertrophy were independent of type 1 IFN receptor signaling or the continuous presence of TNF-α. Our results support previous findings that adaptive immunity toward rotavirus is initiated primarily in the mesenteric LNs and show that type I IFN or TNF-α are not required to coordinate the events involved in the LN response.
Project description:Primary colorectal leiomyosarcoma is an excessively rare entity. It is associated with an aggressive behavior and typically favor hematogenous spread. The current standard of care is surgical resection. A 49-year-old patient presented with a 2-month history of fever. A PET-scan revealed a hypermetabolic mass in the transverse colon, and colonoscopy confirmed a tumor. A right hemicolectomy was performed. Histopathological diagnosis was of a leiomyosarcoma. Fourteen months after the surgery, a follow-up abdominal scan revealed a 2?cm mesenteric lymph node that was hypermetabolic on PET-scan. The mesenteric lymph node was resected and histopathology confirmed a leiomyosarcoma metastasis. This case opens the controversy on the management of rare lymph node recurrences in colorectal leiomyosarcoma.
Project description:Packaging of segmented, double-stranded RNA viral genomes requires coordination of multiple viral proteins and RNA segments. For mammalian orthoreovirus (reovirus), evidence suggests either all ten or zero viral RNA segments are simultaneously packaged in a highly coordinated process hypothesized to exclude host RNA. Accordingly, reovirus generates genome-containing virions and “genomeless” top component particles. However, despite ostensibly lacking the genome, top component particles maintain a low level of infectivity. Whether reovirus particles can package host RNA is unknown. To gain insight into reovirus packaging potential and mechanisms, we employed next-generation RNA-sequencing to define the viral and host RNA content of purified reovirus virions and top component particles. Reovirus top component particles contained double-stranded viral RNA segments in similar proportions but at reduced levels compared to virions. Top component particles also were enriched for numerous host RNAs, especially short, non-polyadenylated transcripts, that differed by reovirus strain, independent of the viral polymerase. In contrast, virions were enriched for very few host RNAs. Collectively, these findings indicate that genome packaging into reovirus virions is exquisitely selective, while incorporation of host RNAs into top component particles is more promiscuous or differentially selective and may contribute to or result from inefficient viral RNA packaging.
Project description:Reovirus mediated cell death of breast cancer is orchestrated via apoptotic cell death pathways We used inhouse microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression following reovirus treatment
Project description:Purpose: The intestine's main function is to digest and absorb dietary nutrients, with help from the absorptive epithelium and underlying vasculature and lymphatic system, as well as the microbiome. The intestine also houses the largest immune cell population in the body, tasked with providing resistance to toxins and invading pathogens while maintaining tolerance to dietary and microbial antigens, either by local action or lymphatic trafficking to the gut-draining lymph nodes (gLNs) to mount adaptive responses. While previous studies revealed the drainage map to various gLNs along the murine gut, and described immunological differences between gLNs, the underlying cellular components and the functional consequences of gut segment-specific drainage have not been systematically addressed. We sought to understand how compartmentalized lymphatic drainage of the intestinal milieu contributes to immune responses towards luminal antigens. Results: Here we report that gLNs are immunologically unique according to the functional gut segment they drain. Stromal and dendritic cell gene signatures, as well as adaptive T cell polarization against the same luminal antigen, differed between gLNs along the intestine, the proximal small intestine–draining gLNs preferentially giving rise to tolerogenic and the distal gLNs to pro-inflammatory T cell responses. This compartmentalized dichotomy could be perturbed by duodenal infection, surgical removal of select distal gLNs, dysbiosis, or ectopic antigen delivery, impacting both lymphoid organ and tissue immune responses. Conclusions: Our findings reveal that the conflict between tolerogenic and inflammatory adaptive responses is in part resolved by discrete gLN drainage, and encourage gut segment-specific antigen targeting for therapeutic immune modulation.