Project description:Erythrocytes represent the most abundant cell type of the bloodstream in all vertebrates. The principal feature that differenciates erythrocytes of non-mammals is that unlike mammals they mantain the nucleus in their terminal differentiation. While the main function associated to erythrocytes is the oxygen and carbon dioxide transport, some other functions, no less important, have been attributed to these cells. The focus of this study was to investigate the response of cultured chicken erythrocytes to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), bacterial peptidoglycan (PGN) and to the analog viral dsRNA Poly(I:C) using a comercial microarray platform from Agilent. Chicken erythrocytes were isolated from blood by twice Ficoll 1.007 density gradient centrifugations. For primary cell culture, erythrocytes were resuspended in DMEM (PAA Laboratories) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS, PAA Laboratories) and the antibiotic Primocin (100 μg/ml, Invivogen) at a density of 7.5x106 cells/ml in six well cell culture plates (NUNC) and cultured at 37ºC and 5% CO2. Erythrocytes were stimulated with LPS from E. coli (serotype 0111:B4, Sigma) and Poly(I:C) (Invivogen) at 50 μg/ml, and with peptidoglycan from E.coli (0111:B4, Invivogen) at 5 μg/ml. All culture plates were incubated for 12h. Total RNA was extracted from the cultures using 1 ml of Tri Reagent (Sigma) following the manufacturer’s instructions with minor modifications. Quantity and integrity was analyzed by Nanodrop1000 (ThermoScientific) and Bioanalyzer 2100 (Agilent Technologies) respectively. Three biological replicates were used.
Project description:Erythrocytes represent the most abundant cell type of the bloodstream in all vertebrates. The principal feature that differenciates erythrocytes of non-mammals is that unlike mammals they mantain the nucleus in their terminal differentiation. While the main function associated to erythrocytes is the oxygen and carbon dioxide transport, some other functions, no less important, have been attributed to these cells. The focus of this study was to investigate the response of cultured chicken erythrocytes to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), bacterial peptidoglycan (PGN) and to the analog viral dsRNA Poly(I:C) using a comercial microarray platform from Agilent.
Project description:The focus of this study was to investigate the response of cultured rainbow trout erythrocytes to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and to the analog viral dsRNA Poly(I:C) using a salmonid-specific microarray platform enriched with immune-related genes. Although the transcriptomic response measured as the total number of differentially expressed genes was higher in LPS, the intensity response, in terms of genes with a FC>2, was greater in Poly(I:C) treated cells. These two treatments shared the regulation of some genes, but not alls followed the same pattern. Over representation of Gene Ontology functional categories showed us that Poly(I:C) treatment produced a immune response whereas LPS stimulation affect biological processes specially. Trout erythrocytes were isolated from blood by twice Ficoll 1.007 density gradient centrifugations. For primary cell culture, erythrocytes were resuspended in DMEM (PAA Laboratories) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS, PAA Laboratories) and the antibiotic Primocin (100 μg/ml, Invivogen) at a density of 7.5x106 cells/ml in six well cell culture plates (NUNC) and cultured at 18 ºC and 5% CO2. Erythrocytes were stimulated with LPS from E. coli (serotype 026:B6, Sigma) and Poly(I:C) (Invivogen) at 50 μg/ml, each treatment had their own control plate. All culture plates were incubated for 24h. Total RNA was extracted from the cultures using 1 ml of Tri Reagent (Sigma) following the manufacturer’s instructions with minor modifications. Quantity and integrity was analyzed by Experion RNA StdSens Analysis Kit (Bio-Rad). The design of the microarray posses 1818 genes printed in six replicates each, including random clones from common and subtracted cDNA libraries which were compared with known vertebrate proteins using blastx. The platform was enriched in immune-related genes.
Project description:The focus of this study was to investigate the response of cultured rainbow trout erythrocytes to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and to the analog viral dsRNA Poly(I:C) using a salmonid-specific microarray platform enriched with immune-related genes. Although the transcriptomic response measured as the total number of differentially expressed genes was higher in LPS, the intensity response, in terms of genes with a FC>2, was greater in Poly(I:C) treated cells. These two treatments shared the regulation of some genes, but not alls followed the same pattern. Over representation of Gene Ontology functional categories showed us that Poly(I:C) treatment produced a immune response whereas LPS stimulation affect biological processes specially.
Project description:Relative expression levels of mRNAs in chicken cecal epithelia experimentally infected with Eimeria tenella were measured at 4.5 days post-infection. Two weeks old chickens were uninfected (negative control) or were orally inoculated with sporulated oocysts of Eimeria tenella. Cecal epithelia samples were collected from >12 birds in infected or uninfected group at 4.5 d following infections, in which samples from 4 birds were pooled together to form a total 3 biological replicates in each group. Parasite merozoites were also collected from four infected chickens at 5 d after infections. Uninfected control samples, merozoites and infection group samples were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We used Affymetrix GeneChip chicken genome arrays to detail the chicken cecal epithelia gene expression in the control and E. tenella-infected birds.