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dc.contributor.authorO'FARRELLY, CLIONA
dc.date.accessioned2008-12-08T12:25:59Z
dc.date.available2008-12-08T12:25:59Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.submitted2007en
dc.identifier.citationMeade, KG, Gormley, E, Doyle, MB, Fitzsimons, T, O'Farrelly, C, Costello, E, Keane, J, Zhao, Y, MacHugh, DE ?Innate gene repression associated with Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle: toward a gene signature of disease? in BMC genomics, 8, 2007, 400en
dc.identifier.issn1471-2164
dc.identifier.otherY
dc.identifier.otherYen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/25999
dc.descriptionPUBLISHED This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.description.abstractBovine tuberculosis is an enduring disease of cattle that has significant repercussions for human health. The advent of high-throughput functional genomics technologies has facilitated large-scale analyses of the immune response to this disease that may ultimately lead to novel diagnostics and therapeutic targets. Analysis of mRNA abundance in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from six Mycobacterium bovis infected cattle and six non-infected controls was performed. A targeted immunospecific bovine cDNA microarray with duplicated spot features representing 1,391 genes was used to test the hypothesis that a distinct gene expression profile may exist in M. bovis infected animals in vivo. Results: In total, 378 gene features were differentially expressed at the P ? 0.05 level in bovine tuberculosis (BTB)-infected and control animals, of which 244 were expressed at lower levels (65%) in the infected group. Lower relative expression of key innate immune genes, including the Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and TLR4 genes, lack of differential expression of indicator adaptive immune gene transcripts (IFNG, IL2, IL4), and lower BOLA major histocompatibility complex ? class I (BOLA) and class II (BOLA-DRA) gene expression was consistent with innate immune gene repression in the BTB-infected animals. Supervised hierarchical cluster analysis and class prediction validation identified a panel of 15 genes predictive of disease status and selected gene transcripts were validated (n = 8 per group) by real time quantitative reverse transcription PCR. Conclusion: These results suggest that large-scale expression profiling can identify gene signatures of disease in peripheral blood that can be used to classify animals on the basis of in vivo infection, in the absence of exogenous antigenic stimulation.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe would like to thank the staff at the UCD Lyons Research Farm for assistance with cattle blood sampling and Grace O'Gorman, Stephen Park and Emmeline Hill for technical assistance and advice. We also thank Frances Quigley and staff at the Mycobacteriology Laboratory, CVRL, Backweston for their assistance in the bacterial culture of M. bovis from infected cattle and Prof. Paul Coussens of the MSU Centre for Animal Functional Genomics for advice and provision of BOTL-5 microarrays. This work was supported by an Investigator Grant from Science Foundation Ireland (Grant No: SFI/01/F.1/B028)en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBMCen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBMC genomicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseries8en
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dc.subjectBiochemistryen
dc.titleInnate gene repression associated with Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle: toward a gene signature of disease.en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorScience Foundation Ireland
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dc.identifier.rssuridoi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-400


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