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Apoptosis, toll-like, RIG-I-like and NOD-like receptors are pathways jointly induced by diverse respiratory bacterial and viral pathogens

  • Isidoro Martínez*
  • , Juan C. Oliveros
  • , Isabel Cuesta
  • , Jorge de la Barrera
  • , Vicente Ausina
  • , Cristina Casals
  • , Alba de Lorenzo
  • , Ernesto García
  • , Belén García-Fojeda
  • , Junkal Garmendia
  • , Mar González-Nicolau
  • , Alicia Lacoma
  • , Margarita Menéndez
  • , David Moranta
  • , Amelia Nieto
  • , Juan Ortín
  • , Alicia Pérez-González
  • , Cristina Prat
  • , Elisa Ramos-Sevillano
  • , Verónica Regueiro
  • Ariel Rodriguez-Frandsen, Dolores Solís, José Yuste, José A. Bengoechea, José A. Melero
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Lower respiratory tract infections are among the top five leading causes of human death. Fighting these infections is therefore a world health priority. Searching for induced alterations in host gene expression shared by several relevant respiratory pathogens represents an alternative to identify new targets for wide-range host-oriented therapeutics. With this aim, alveolar macrophages were independently infected with three unrelated bacterial (Streptococcus pneumoniae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus) and two dissimilar viral (respiratory syncytial virus and influenza A virus) respiratory pathogens, all of them highly relevant for human health. Cells were also activated with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as a prototypical pathogen-associated molecular pattern. Patterns of differentially expressed cellular genes shared by the indicated pathogens were searched by microarray analysis. Most of the commonly up-regulated host genes were related to the innate immune response and/or apoptosis, with Toll-like, RIG-I-like and NOD-like receptors among the top 10 signaling pathways with over-expressed genes. These results identify new potential broad-spectrum targets to fight the important human infections caused by the bacteria and viruses studied here.

Original languageEnglish
Article number276
JournalFrontiers in Microbiology
Volume8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bacterial infections
  • Core of up-regulated genes
  • Host response
  • Respiratory pathogens
  • Viral infections

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