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Characterization of the microtranscriptome of macrophages infected with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira spp.
Leptospirosis is a bacterial zoonosis, caused by Leptospira spp., that leads to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite considerable advances, much is yet to be discovered about disease pathogenicity. The influence of epigenetic mechanisms, particularly RNA-mediated post-transcription...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6051669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29979677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006621 |
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author | Garcia, Leandro Encarnação de Araújo Junior, Erivelto Corrêa Melo, Larissa Martins Bragato, Jaqueline Poleto Peiró, Juliana Regina Félix de Lima, Valéria Marçal Marinho, Márcia Arnold, Daniel Robert Lopes, Flavia Lombardi |
author_facet | Garcia, Leandro Encarnação de Araújo Junior, Erivelto Corrêa Melo, Larissa Martins Bragato, Jaqueline Poleto Peiró, Juliana Regina Félix de Lima, Valéria Marçal Marinho, Márcia Arnold, Daniel Robert Lopes, Flavia Lombardi |
author_sort | Garcia, Leandro Encarnação |
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description | Leptospirosis is a bacterial zoonosis, caused by Leptospira spp., that leads to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite considerable advances, much is yet to be discovered about disease pathogenicity. The influence of epigenetic mechanisms, particularly RNA-mediated post-transcriptional regulation of host immune response has been described following a variety of bacterial infections. The current study examined the microtranscriptome of macrophages J774A.1 following an 8h infection with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira. Microarray analysis revealed that 29 miRNAs were misregulated following leptospiral infection compared to control macrophages in a strain and virulence-specific manner. Pathway analysis for targets of these differentially expressed miRNAs suggests that several processes involved in immune response could be regulated by miRNAs. Our data provides the first evidence that host miRNAs are regulated by Leptospira infection in macrophages. A number of the identified miRNA targets participate in key immune response processes. We suggest that post-transcriptional regulation by miRNAs may play a role in host response to infection in leptospirosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-60516692018-07-27 Characterization of the microtranscriptome of macrophages infected with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira spp. Garcia, Leandro Encarnação de Araújo Junior, Erivelto Corrêa Melo, Larissa Martins Bragato, Jaqueline Poleto Peiró, Juliana Regina Félix de Lima, Valéria Marçal Marinho, Márcia Arnold, Daniel Robert Lopes, Flavia Lombardi PLoS Negl Trop Dis Research Article Leptospirosis is a bacterial zoonosis, caused by Leptospira spp., that leads to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite considerable advances, much is yet to be discovered about disease pathogenicity. The influence of epigenetic mechanisms, particularly RNA-mediated post-transcriptional regulation of host immune response has been described following a variety of bacterial infections. The current study examined the microtranscriptome of macrophages J774A.1 following an 8h infection with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira. Microarray analysis revealed that 29 miRNAs were misregulated following leptospiral infection compared to control macrophages in a strain and virulence-specific manner. Pathway analysis for targets of these differentially expressed miRNAs suggests that several processes involved in immune response could be regulated by miRNAs. Our data provides the first evidence that host miRNAs are regulated by Leptospira infection in macrophages. A number of the identified miRNA targets participate in key immune response processes. We suggest that post-transcriptional regulation by miRNAs may play a role in host response to infection in leptospirosis. Public Library of Science 2018-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6051669/ /pubmed/29979677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006621 Text en © 2018 Garcia et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Garcia, Leandro Encarnação de Araújo Junior, Erivelto Corrêa Melo, Larissa Martins Bragato, Jaqueline Poleto Peiró, Juliana Regina Félix de Lima, Valéria Marçal Marinho, Márcia Arnold, Daniel Robert Lopes, Flavia Lombardi Characterization of the microtranscriptome of macrophages infected with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira spp. |
title | Characterization of the microtranscriptome of macrophages infected with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira spp. |
title_full | Characterization of the microtranscriptome of macrophages infected with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira spp. |
title_fullStr | Characterization of the microtranscriptome of macrophages infected with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira spp. |
title_full_unstemmed | Characterization of the microtranscriptome of macrophages infected with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira spp. |
title_short | Characterization of the microtranscriptome of macrophages infected with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of Leptospira spp. |
title_sort | characterization of the microtranscriptome of macrophages infected with virulent, attenuated and saprophyte strains of leptospira spp. |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6051669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29979677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006621 |
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