Transcriptional landscape of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in macrophages

  • Sugata Roy
  • , Sebastian Schmeier
  • , Bogumil Kaczkowski
  • , Erik Arner
  • , Tanvir Alam
  • , Mumin Ozturk
  • , Ousman Tamgue
  • , Suraj P. Parihar
  • , Hideya Kawaji
  • , Masayoshi Itoh
  • , Timo Lassmann
  • , Piero Carninci
  • , Yoshihide Hayashizaki
  • , Alistair R.R. Forrest
  • , Reto Guler
  • , Vladimir B. Bajic
  • , Frank Brombacher
  • , Harukazu Suzuki*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection reveals complex and dynamic host-pathogen interactions, leading to host protection or pathogenesis. Using a unique transcriptome technology (CAGE), we investigated the promoter-based transcriptional landscape of IFNγ (M1) or IL-4/IL-13 (M2) stimulated macrophages during Mtb infection in a time-kinetic manner. Mtb infection widely and drastically altered macrophage-specific gene expression, which is far larger than that of M1 or M2 activations. Gene Ontology enrichment analysis for Mtb-induced differentially expressed genes revealed various terms, related to host-protection and inflammation, enriched in up-regulated genes. On the other hand, terms related to dis-regulation of cellular functions were enriched in down-regulated genes. Differential expression analysis revealed known as well as novel transcription factor genes in Mtb infection, many of them significantly down-regulated. IFNγ or IL-4/IL-13 pre-stimulation induce additional differentially expressed genes in Mtb-infected macrophages. Cluster analysis uncovered significant numbers, prolonging their expressional changes. Furthermore, Mtb infection augmented cytokine-mediated M1 and M2 pre-activations. In addition, we identified unique transcriptional features of Mtb-mediated differentially expressed lncRNAs. In summary we provide a comprehensive in depth gene expression/regulation profile in Mtb-infected macrophages, an important step forward for a better understanding of host-pathogen interaction dynamics in Mtb infection.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6758
JournalScientific Reports
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2018
Externally publishedYes

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