Research Group Microbial Immunology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institut, Jena, Germany.
Research Group Applied Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institut, Jena, Germany.
Front Immunol. 2020 Mar 31;11:500. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00500. eCollection 2020.
Microbial survival in blood is an essential step toward the development of disseminated diseases and blood stream infections. For poultry, however, little is known about the interactions of host cells and pathogens in blood. We established an chicken whole-blood infection assay as a tool to analyze interactions between host cells and three model pathogens, , and . Following a systems biology approach, we complemented the experimental measurements with functional and quantitative immune characteristics by virtual infection modeling. All three pathogens were killed in whole blood, but each to a different extent and with different kinetics. Monocytes, and to a lesser extent heterophils, associated with pathogens. Both association with host cells and transcriptional activation of genes encoding immune-associated functions differed depending on both the pathogen and the genetic background of the chickens. Our results provide first insights into quantitative interactions of three model pathogens with different immune cell populations in avian blood, demonstrating a broad spectrum of different characteristics during the immune response that depends on the pathogen and the chicken line.
微生物在血液中的存活是其向传播性疾病和血流感染发展的关键步骤。然而,对于家禽而言,人们对宿主细胞与血液中病原体之间的相互作用知之甚少。我们建立了一个鸡全血感染模型,以此来分析宿主细胞与三种模式病原体( 、 、 )之间的相互作用。采用系统生物学方法,我们通过虚拟感染建模,将实验测量与功能和定量免疫特征相结合。三种病原体均在全血中被杀死,但每种病原体的杀伤程度和动力学均有所不同。单核细胞和程度较轻的异嗜性白细胞与病原体相关。与宿主细胞的关联以及免疫相关功能基因的转录激活,均取决于病原体和鸡的遗传背景。我们的研究结果首次深入了解了三种模式病原体与禽类血液中不同免疫细胞群体的定量相互作用,表明在免疫反应过程中存在广泛的不同特征,这些特征取决于病原体和鸡系。