Project description:Whole blood transcriptomes from a longitudinal study of 5 Malawian children who first present with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria, and return in one month with mild malaria We used microarrays to identify transcripts that were associated with each clinical presentation. A blood sample was taken upon presentation during the severe and mild malaria episodes in 5 Malawian children (total n=5 pairs) followed by RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix GeneChip Human Gene 1.0 ST Array, using a paired analysis
Project description:Host factors governing mild disease in adults who have developed clinical immunity to Plasmodium falciparum may provide insights for disease altering vaccine or interventions, to prevent severe malaria We used microarrays of whole blood samples during mild malaria and compared them in a paired analysis to whole blood microarray 30 days later. (n=19 pairs)
Project description:Whole blood transcriptomes from a longitudinal study of 5 Malawian children who first present with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria, and return in one month with mild malaria We used microarrays to identify transcripts that were associated with each clinical presentation.
Project description:Host factors governing mild disease in adults who have developed clinical immunity to Plasmodium falciparum may provide insights for disease altering vaccine or interventions, to prevent severe malaria We used microarrays of whole blood samples during mild malaria and compared them in a paired analysis to whole blood microarray 30 days later. (n=19 pairs) 3mL of whole blood was immediately placed in Tri-Reagent BD, frozen; high quality pairs were selected, were randomly selected for hybridization and analysis. Sense strand cDNA was generated from total RNA using the Ambion® WT Expression Kit (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY) and labeling was done with the GeneChip® WT Terminal Labeling Kit (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA) for use with the GeneChip® Human Gene 1.0 ST Arrays (Affymetrix). The array image was generated by a high-resolution GeneArray Scanner 3000 7G (Affymetrix).
Project description:We aimed at finding differently expressed genes in whole blood cells of African children with asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection (A), uncomplicated malaria (U), severe malarial anemia (A) and cerebral malaria (Ce) compared one to another and to healthy children (Co). Understanding malarial immunopathology in the human host represents and enormous challenge for transcriptomic research. In this work, we used microarray and real-time RT-PCR technology to pursue deeper knowledge about the mechanisms underlying this disease in African children. To this end, we investigated the genomic transcriptional profiles in whole blood of healthy children and children with asymptomatic infection, uncomplicated malaria, malaria associated with severe anemia and cerebral malaria and compared them with previously published microarray results. We were able to discriminate between the different presentations of P. falciparum infection using supervised and unsupervised clustering of microarray data and unsupervised double-hierarchical clustering of real-time RT-PCR results of a set of 22 genes known to be expressed in at least one of the principal blood cell lineages. We further found considerable overlap between genes regulated in Kenyan and Gabonese children with symptomatic malaria, in contrast to adults with acute malaria from Cameroon. Different signatures for transcription factor binding sites in promoters of genes either up-regulated in symptomatic disease, specifically up-regulated in uncomplicated malaria or specifically down-regulated in cerebral malaria point out that similar gene expression in each of these clinical presentations is probably a result of common regulation at the transcriptional level. Immunoglobulin production, complement regulation and IFN beta signalling emerged as most discrepant features between uncomplicated malaria and all other investigated presentations, correlating with IRF7 and ISRE binding signatures in the corresponding genes. Down-regulation of several genes in cerebral malaria seems instead to be a response to hypoxia orchestrated by AhRF, GABP and HIF1 transcription factors. ARG1, BPI, CD163, IFI27, HP and TNFAIP6 transcript levels correlated positively with lactatemia and inversely with hemoglobin concentration and should be evaluated as prognostic markers to direct early therapeutic measures and prevent malarial disease evolution and death.
Project description:This study examined the differences in human and parasite gene expression pattern between children with severe malaria and those with uncomplicated malaria through a dual RNA-seq approach. Peripheral blood samples were collected which contained substantial numbers of parasites that required no RNA enrichment prior to library preparation and sequencing.
Project description:PBMCs were obtain from mild malaria and cerebral malaria patient at the onset of P. falciparum infection. Patient recruitment took place in two hospital centers in Senegal Total RNAs from PBMCs of mild and cerebral malaria patients were profiled after hybridization with Agilent SurePrint G3 Human GE 8x60K Microarray to identify blood biomarkers for cerebral malaria phenotype Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a major health problem in Africa. The mechanisms of pathogenesis leading to the severe form of the disease are not fully understood. Blood transcriptional profiles were investigated in patient with cerebral malaria, noncerebral malaria , and mild malaria by using the microarray technology. We identified a set of 447 genes that was differentially expressed between the three patient groups after a false discovery rate of 10%. Since the cerebral patients displayed a particular transcriptional pattern, we focused our analysis on the differences between cerebral malaria patients and mild malaria patients. We further found 849 genes differentially expressed after a false discovery rate of 10%. We validated our results by using the qPCR method for 5 genes. The enrichment analysis of their functional annotation indicates that genes involved in A, B, C pathways play a role in the occurrence of cerebral malaria. These results provide new insight into the potential effect of the dysregulation of gene expression and specific pathways. Host genetic variation may partly explain such alteration of gene expression. Further studies are required to investigate this in African populations.
Project description:Genome wide transcriptome analyses could reveal whether parasites causing severe malarial disease express different genes to those causing uncomplicated malaria. This knowledge could inform therapy and vaccine design targeting severe disease. Venous samples were collected from patients with severe (n=23) and uncomplicated (n=21) malaria attending a healthcare facility in Timika, Papua Province, Indonesia. This area has unstable malaria transmission with estimated annual parasite incidence of 450 per 1000 population and symptomatic illness in all ages. Severe malaria was defined as peripheral parasitaemia with at least one modified World Health Organization (WHO) criterion of severity. Erythrocytes were immediately isolated from whole blood, solubilised in RNA preservative and frozen. Libraries were 100 bp paired end sequenced on a 2500-HT Hiseq (Illumina) using RapidRun chemistry (Illumina).
Project description:Analysis of the effect of malaria infection on whole blood gene expression and uncovering regulatory effects using eQTL analysis. Testing for relashionships between genotype, expression and malaria phenotypes. We generated whole blood gene expression profiles and genotypes from 155 West-African children including 94 cases undergoing the symptomatic phase of blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum infection and 61 age-matched controls. PCA, analysis of covariance and eQTL analysis were performed on the data.
Project description:We used microarrays to characterize the whole blood global gene expression profiles in 98 children with P. falciparum cerebral malaria We associated retinopathy status with host genes and pathways to explore mechanisms of infected red sequestration to the microvasculature in CM