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Advances in Understanding Leishmania Pathobiology: What Does RNA-Seq Tell Us?
Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease caused by a protozoa parasite from over 20 Leishmania species. The clinical manifestations and the outcome of the disease vary greatly. Global RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) analyses emerged as a powerful technique to profile the changes in the transcriptome that oc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8440825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540827 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.702240 |
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author | Salloum, Tamara Tokajian, Sima Hirt, Robert P. |
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description | Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease caused by a protozoa parasite from over 20 Leishmania species. The clinical manifestations and the outcome of the disease vary greatly. Global RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) analyses emerged as a powerful technique to profile the changes in the transcriptome that occur in the Leishmania parasites and their infected host cells as the parasites progresses through their life cycle. Following the bite of a sandfly vector, Leishmania are transmitted to a mammalian host where neutrophils and macrophages are key cells mediating the interactions with the parasites and result in either the elimination the infection or contributing to its proliferation. This review focuses on RNA-Seq based transcriptomics analyses and summarizes the main findings derived from this technology. In doing so, we will highlight caveats in our understanding of the parasite’s pathobiology and suggest novel directions for research, including integrating more recent data highlighting the role of the bacterial members of the sandfly gut microbiota and the mammalian host skin microbiota in their potential role in influencing the quantitative and qualitative aspects of leishmaniasis pathology. |
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spelling | pubmed-84408252021-09-16 Advances in Understanding Leishmania Pathobiology: What Does RNA-Seq Tell Us? Salloum, Tamara Tokajian, Sima Hirt, Robert P. Front Cell Dev Biol Cell and Developmental Biology Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease caused by a protozoa parasite from over 20 Leishmania species. The clinical manifestations and the outcome of the disease vary greatly. Global RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) analyses emerged as a powerful technique to profile the changes in the transcriptome that occur in the Leishmania parasites and their infected host cells as the parasites progresses through their life cycle. Following the bite of a sandfly vector, Leishmania are transmitted to a mammalian host where neutrophils and macrophages are key cells mediating the interactions with the parasites and result in either the elimination the infection or contributing to its proliferation. This review focuses on RNA-Seq based transcriptomics analyses and summarizes the main findings derived from this technology. In doing so, we will highlight caveats in our understanding of the parasite’s pathobiology and suggest novel directions for research, including integrating more recent data highlighting the role of the bacterial members of the sandfly gut microbiota and the mammalian host skin microbiota in their potential role in influencing the quantitative and qualitative aspects of leishmaniasis pathology. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8440825/ /pubmed/34540827 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.702240 Text en Copyright © 2021 Salloum, Tokajian and Hirt. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Cell and Developmental Biology Salloum, Tamara Tokajian, Sima Hirt, Robert P. Advances in Understanding Leishmania Pathobiology: What Does RNA-Seq Tell Us? |
title | Advances in Understanding Leishmania Pathobiology: What Does RNA-Seq Tell Us? |
title_full | Advances in Understanding Leishmania Pathobiology: What Does RNA-Seq Tell Us? |
title_fullStr | Advances in Understanding Leishmania Pathobiology: What Does RNA-Seq Tell Us? |
title_full_unstemmed | Advances in Understanding Leishmania Pathobiology: What Does RNA-Seq Tell Us? |
title_short | Advances in Understanding Leishmania Pathobiology: What Does RNA-Seq Tell Us? |
title_sort | advances in understanding leishmania pathobiology: what does rna-seq tell us? |
topic | Cell and Developmental Biology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8440825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540827 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.702240 |
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