Project description:We report the application of MeRIP-seq (m6A-specific methylated RNA immunoprecipitation) for m6A site profiling of lung tissue under Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) infection.
Project description:Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) belongs to the genus Morbillivirus that causes an acute and highly contagious disease in goats and sheep. Virus infection can trigger the change in the cellular microRNA (miRNA) expression profile, which play important post-transcriptional regulatory roles in gene expression and can greatly influence viral replication and pathogenesis. Here, we employed deep sequencing technology to determine cellular miRNAs expression profile in goat peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) infected with Nigeria 75/1 vaccine virus, a widely used vaccine strain for mass vaccination programs against Peste des petits ruminants (PPR). Expression analysis demonstrated that PPRV infection can elicit 316 significantly differentially expressed (DE) miRNAs including 103 known and 213 novel miRNAs candidates in infected PBMCs at 24 hours post-infection as compared with mock control. Target prediction and functional analysis of these DEmiRNAs revealed significant enrichment for several signaling pathways including TLR signaling pathways, PI3K-Akt, endocytosis, viral carcinogenesis, and JAK-STAT signaling pathways. This study provides a valuable basis for further investigation on the roles of miRNAs in PPRV replication and pathogenesis.
2020-08-18 | GSE156378 | GEO
Project description:Sequencing of peste des petits ruminants virus strains
Project description:Viruses have evolved numerous strategies to impair immunity so that they can replicate more efficiently, such as the immunosuppressive effects of Morbillivirus infection. In the present work we hypothesized that the highly contagious morbillivirus Peste des Petits Ruminants virus (PPRV) could target monocytes and dendritic cells (DC) to contribute to the immunosuppressive effects produced by the infection. Monocytes isolated from healthy sheep donor, a natural host of the disease, could be infected by PPRV and this impaired the differentiation and phagocytic ability of immature monocyte-derived DC (MoDC). Ovine MoDC could be productively infected by PPRV, and this drastically reduced MoDC capacity to activate allogeneic T cell responses. Transcriptomic analysis of infected MoDC indicated that several tolerogenic DC signature genes were upregulated upon PPRV infection.
Project description:Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) is a negative-stranded RNA virus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family and causes acute, highly contagious disease in small ruminants. Lysine acetylation plays central role in regulating gene expression. However, the extent and function of lysine acetylation in host cells during PPRV infection remains unknown. In this study, intensive proteomic quantification analysis of the proteome and acetylome of PPRV-infected Vero cells was performed using dimethylation labeling-based quantitative proteomics. As results, we identified 4729 proteins and 1068 acetylated proteins with 2641 quantified modification sites detected by mass spectrometry, of which 304 acetylated proteins with 410 acetylation sites were significantly acetylated in response to PPRV infection. Bioinformatics analyses revealed that the differentially acetylated proteins participated in carbohydrate catabolic and DNA metabolic process, and were associated with multifarious functions, suggesting that intracellular activities were extensively changed after PPRV infection. Protein-protein interaction network of the identified proteins further indicated that a variety of chaperone and ribosome processes were modulated by acetylation. To our knowledge, this is the first study on acetylome in host cell infected with PPRV. It provides an important point for future studies on the acetylated proteins involved in the host response to PPRV replication.