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Genetic background influences survival of infections with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in the Collaborative Cross. PLoS Genet 2022; 18:e1010075. [PMID: 35417454 PMCID: PMC9067680 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Salmonella infections typically cause self-limiting gastroenteritis, but in some individuals these bacteria can spread systemically and cause disseminated disease. Salmonella Typhimurium (STm), which causes severe systemic disease in most inbred mice, has been used as a model for disseminated disease. To screen for new infection phenotypes across a range of host genetics, we orally infected 32 Collaborative Cross (CC) mouse strains with STm and monitored their disease progression for seven days by telemetry. Our data revealed a broad range of phenotypes across CC strains in many parameters including survival, bacterial colonization, tissue damage, complete blood counts (CBC), and serum cytokines. Eighteen CC strains survived to day 7, while fourteen susceptible strains succumbed to infection before day 7. Several CC strains had sex differences in survival and colonization. Surviving strains had lower pre-infection baseline temperatures and were less active during their daily active period. Core body temperature disruptions were detected earlier after STm infection than activity disruptions, making temperature a better detector of illness. All CC strains had STm in spleen and liver, but susceptible strains were more highly colonized. Tissue damage was weakly negatively correlated to survival. We identified loci associated with survival on Chromosomes (Chr) 1, 2, 4, 7. Polymorphisms in Ncf2 and Slc11a1, known to reduce survival in mice after STm infections, are located in the Chr 1 interval, and the Chr 7 association overlaps with a previously identified QTL peak called Ses2. We identified two new genetic regions on Chr 2 and 4 associated with susceptibility to STm infection. Our data reveal the diversity of responses to STm infection across a range of host genetics and identified new candidate regions for survival of STm infection.
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Poltorak A, Apalko S, Sherbak S. Wild-derived mice: from genetic diversity to variation in immune responses. Mamm Genome 2018; 29:577-584. [PMID: 30056578 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-018-9766-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Classical inbred mouse strains have historically been instrumental in mapping immunological traits. However, most of the classical strains originate from a relatively limited number of founder animals, largely within the Mus musculus domesticus subspecies. Therefore, their genetic diversity is ultimately limited. For this reason, it is not feasible to use these mice for exhaustive interrogation of immune signaling pathways. In order to investigate networks through forward genetic analysis, larger genetic diversity is required than is introduced under laboratory conditions. Recently, inbred strains from other mouse subspecies were established such as Mus musculus castaneus and Mus musculus musculus, which diverged from a shared common ancestor with Mus musculus domesticus more than one million years ago. A direct genomic comparison clearly demonstrates the evolutionary divergence that has occurred between wild-derived mice and the classical inbred strains. When compared to classical inbred strains, wild-derived mice exhibit polymorphisms every 100-200 base pairs. Studying the molecular basis of these traits provides us with insight into how the immune system can evolve regulatory features to accommodate environment-specific constraints. Because most wild-derived strains are able to breed with classical inbred mice, they represent a rich source of evolutionarily significant diversity for forward genetic studies. These organisms are an emerging, though still largely unexplored, model for the identification and study of novel immunological genes.
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- Alexander Poltorak
- Department of Immunology, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 02111, USA. .,Petrozavodsk State University, Karelia, Russian Federation.
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- City Hospital, 40, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.,St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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Low D, DeGruttola AK, Poltrak A, Mizoguchi A, Mino-Kenudson M, Mizoguchi E. High Endogenous Expression of Chitinase 3-Like 1 and Excessive Epithelial Proliferation with Colonic Tumor Formation in MOLF/EiJ Mice. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0139149. [PMID: 26440614 PMCID: PMC4594921 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) development is mediated by uncontrolled survival and proliferation of tumor progenitor cells. Using animal models to identify and study host-derived factors that underlie this process can aid interventions in preventing tumor expansion and metastasis. In healthy steady states in humans and mice (e.g. C57BL/6 strain), colonic Chitinase 3-like 1 (CHI3L1) gene expression is undetectable. However, this expression can be induced during intestinal inflammation and tumorigenesis where CHI3L1 plays an important role in tissue restitution and cell proliferation. Here, we show that a wild-derived mouse strain MOLF/EiJ expresses high levels of colonic epithelial CHI3L1 at the steady state due to several nucleotide polymorphisms in the proximal promoter regions of the CHI3L1 gene. Interestingly, these mice spontaneously developed polypoid nodules in the colon with signs of immune cell infiltrations at steady state. The CHI3L1 positive colonic epithelial cells were highly proliferative and exhibited malignant transformation and expansion when exposed in vivo to azoxymethane, one of the well-known colonic carcinogens.
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- Daren Low
- Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Petrozavodsk State University, 185910, Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia
- Graduate Program in Genetics, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Gilchrist JJ, MacLennan CA, Hill AVS. Genetic susceptibility to invasive Salmonella disease. Nat Rev Immunol 2015; 15:452-63. [PMID: 26109132 DOI: 10.1038/nri3858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Invasive Salmonella disease, in the form of enteric fever and invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) disease, causes substantial morbidity and mortality in children and adults in the developing world. The study of genetic variations in humans and mice that influence susceptibility of the host to Salmonella infection provides important insights into immunity to Salmonella. In this Review, we discuss data that have helped to elucidate the host genetic determinants of human enteric fever and iNTS disease, alongside data from the mouse model of Salmonella infection. Considered together, these studies provide a detailed picture of the immunobiology of human invasive Salmonella disease.
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- James J Gilchrist
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- 1] Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7DQ, UK. [2] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- 1] Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK. [2] Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7DQ, UK
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Khan RT, Chevenon M, Yuki KE, Malo D. Genetic dissection of the ity3 locus identifies a role for ncf2 co-expression modules and suggests selp as a candidate gene underlying the ity3.2 locus. Front Immunol 2014; 5:375. [PMID: 25161653 PMCID: PMC4129629 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2014] [Accepted: 07/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Typhoid fever and salmonellosis, which are caused by Salmonella typhi and typhimurium, respectively, are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. We model typhoid fever using mice infected with Salmonella typhimurium, which results in a systemic disease, whereby the outcome of infection is variable in different inbred strains of mice. This model recapitulates several clinical aspects of the human disease and allows the study of the host response to Salmonella typhimurium infection in vivo. Previous work in our laboratory has identified three loci (Ity, Ity2, and Ity3) in the wild-derived MOLF/Ei mice influencing survival after infection with Salmonella typhimurium. Fine mapping of the Ity3 locus indicated that two sub-loci contribute collectively to the susceptibility of B6.MOLF-Ity/Ity3 congenic mice to Salmonella infection. In the current paper, we provided further evidence supporting a role for Ncf2 (neutrophil cytosolic factor 2 a subunit of NADPH oxidase) as the gene underlying the Ity3.1 sub-locus. Gene expression profiling indicated that the Ity3.1 sub-locus defined a global gene expression signature with networks articulated around Ncf2. Furthermore, based on differential expression and complementation analysis using Selp (selectin-P) knock-out mice, Selp was identified as a strong candidate gene for the Ity3.2 sub-locus.
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- Rabia Tahir Khan
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University , Montreal, QC , Canada ; Complex Traits Group, McGill University , Montreal, QC , Canada
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- Complex Traits Group, McGill University , Montreal, QC , Canada ; Department of Medicine, McGill University , Montreal, QC , Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University , Montreal, QC , Canada ; Complex Traits Group, McGill University , Montreal, QC , Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University , Montreal, QC , Canada ; Complex Traits Group, McGill University , Montreal, QC , Canada ; Department of Medicine, McGill University , Montreal, QC , Canada
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