Abstract
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the pathogen of Johne’s disease (paratuberculosis), which mainly causes chronic infectious granulomatous enteritis in ruminants and has brought huge economic losses to animal husbandry. As a specific intracellular pathogen, when MAP invades the body, it is internalized by macrophages where it is able to replicate by inhibition of the phagosome maturation, escaping the host immune system and surviving, which leads to the spread of the disease. More recent studies have shown that circRNA is involved in many pathological and physiological processes of the body as the molecular sponge of miRNA, the scaffold of RNA binding protein and having the characteristic of being able to translate into protein. In this study, the mRNA and circRNA expression profiles of MAP-infected bovine monocyte-macrophages and uninfected bovine cells were analyzed by high-throughput sequencing. A total of 618 differentially expressed mRNA were screened out, including 322 upregulated mRNA and 296 downregulated mRNA. In addition, the analysis of circRNA differential expression profile showed 39 differentially expressed genes including 12 upregulated and 27 downregulated genes. Moreover, differential genes belonging to cytokine activity, chemokine activity, inflammatory reaction, apoptosis, and other functional groups related to macrophage immune response were significantly enriched in Gene Ontology (GO). Multiple signal pathways including NF-κB, MAPK, Toll-like receptor, IL-17, JAK-STAT, and other signaling pathways related to activating macrophage immune response were significantly enriched in Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG). In addition, RT-qPCR technology verified the accuracy of the mRNA sequencing results. In this study, we have obtained the transcriptome information of mRNA and circRNA of bovine monocyte-macrophage infected with MAP. These results will provide data support for the further study of mRNA–miRNA–circRNA network and immune escape mechanism of MAP and will enrich the knowledge of the molecular immune mechanisms of Johne’s disease as well.
Highlights
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the causal agent of Johne’s disease
The CD14labeled cells remained in the sorting column, and the CD14-carrying monocytes were eluted from the column for monocytes-derived macrophage (MDM) purification and culture (Supplementary Figure 1A)
Among the four subspecies of M. avium, MAP is the most threatening to animal husbandry, and the chronic wasting enteritis caused by MAP can cause intractable diarrhea and progressive emaciation in ruminants
Summary
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the causal agent of Johne’s disease (paratuberculosis). MAP is transmitted mainly through the fecal–oral route. During the establishment of persistent infection in macrophages, MAP invade the intestinal tract mainly through M cells in Peyer’s spots and differentiate epithelial cells (Bannantine and Bermudez, 2013). Whether the engulfed MAP can be successfully eliminated by macrophages represents a battle between host defense and pathogen proliferation. Mycobacterium tuberculosis delays apoptosis in the initial stage of infecting macrophages to allow them to replicate in cells, and induces apoptosis in search of new host cells when intracellular conditions are unfavorable for growth (Behar et al, 2010). Detection of mRNA and circRNA expression profiles of host macrophages during MAP infection is helpful to elucidate the pathogenesis of paratuberculosis and the conditional mode of host–pathogen interaction
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