Project description:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem and we lack a comprehensive understanding of how Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection impacts host immune responses. We compared, at two timepoints, the induced immune response to TB antigen, BCG and IL-1β stimulation between latently M. tb infected individuals (LTBI) and active TB patients. The immune response was assessed using the TruCulture system with a Null stimulation. samples were tested by Ultrahigh Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectroscopy (UPLC MS/MS) for a total of 696 metabolites.
Project description:For further identify the differentiation between latent and clinical tuberculosis (TB), we employed whole genome microarray expression profiling to study genes with significant expression change in peripheral CD4+T cells between healthy control, latent tuberculosis (LTB) and clinical tuberculosis (TB). Our experiment included 4 groups: healthy donor (HD), latent TB1 (LTB1) with low IFN-gamma release level, latent TB2 (LTB2) with high IFN-gamma release level, and tuberculosis (TB) with high IFN-gamma release level. Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells were collected, from which CD4+T cells were isolated. Total RNA of each individuals of each group was extracted from peripheral CD4+T cells. One μg of RNA mixture, pooled equivalently by each individual total RNA of each group, was administrated microarray test. Compared with HD, through analyzing enriched-Gene Ontology (GO) terms and KEGG pathways of each group, we found peripheral CD4+T cells might had different ability for mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in LTB1, LTB2 and TB. Finally we detected that TNFSF13/APRIL and TNFSF13B/BAFF was significant up-regulation in both CD4+T cells and serum of TB by real time PCR and ELISA, respectively.
Project description:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a deadly disease. The genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was neglected in the past, but is increasingly recognized as a determinant of immune responses and clinical outcomes of TB. However, how this bacterial diversity orchestrates immune responses to direct differences in TB severity remains unknown. We studied 681 patients with pulmonary TB and found that phylogenetically related M. tuberculosis isolates from cases with mild disease induced robust cytokine responses in macrophages. In contrast, isolates associated with severe TB cases failed to do so. Using representative isolates, we show that M. tuberculosis inducing a low cytokine response in macrophages also diminished activation of cytosolic surveillance systems, including cGAS and the inflammasome, suggesting a novel mechanism of immune escape. Isolates exhibiting this evasion strategy carried mutations in various components of the ESX-I secretion system. We conclude that host interactions with different M. tuberculosis strains results in variable TB severity.
Project description:Pyrazinamide (PZA) is one of the first line antibiotics used for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). we have used human monocyte and a mouse model of pulmonary TB to investigate whether treatment with PZA, in addition to its known anti-mycobacterial properties, modulate the host immune response during Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection.
Project description:Synchronised cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb H37Ra DnaAcos115) were used to determine the cell cycle dependent gene expression.
Project description:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem and we lack a comprehensive understanding of how Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection impacts host immune responses. We compared, at two timepoints, the induced immune response to TB antigen, BCG and IL-1β stimulation between latently M. tb infected individuals (LTBI) and active TB patients. The immune response was stimulated using the TruCulture system with the corresponding stimulations: TB antigen, BCG, 1L1b, and the Luminex xMAP array was used to assess the cytokines expression profile of the samples.
Project description:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem and we lack a comprehensive understanding of how Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection impacts host immune responses. We compared, at two timepoints, the induced immune response to TB antigen, BCG and IL-1β stimulation between latently M. tb infected individuals (LTBI) and active TB patients. The immune response was stimulated using the TruCulture system with the corresponding stimulations: TB antigen, BCG, 1L1b, and the Nanostring platform was used to assess the gene expression profiles of the samples. The Nanostring platform was used to evaluate the gene expression
Project description:Tuberculosis (TB), which is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), continues to be a public health threat. With the development and widespread of drug-resistant TB, the pressure of prevention and treatment is increasing. To determine and quantify the modified proteins, high resolution mass spectrometry were used to label and quantify the peptides and proteins modified.
Project description:Synchronised cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb H37Ra DnaAcos115) were used to determine the cell cycle dependent gene expression. Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra DnaAcos115 strain was grown in Middlebrook 7H9 broth at 30C for 30h which arrests replication and later cultures were allowed to grow at 37oC for 30h. Samples were collected at 0, 2, 6, 12,18, 24 and 30 hours. Samples at 30oC for 30h were considered as '0' time point. A total of 18 samples, consisting of triplicates for 6 time-points were analyzed using microarray.