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Trophozoite fitness dictates the intestinal epithelial cell response to Giardia intestinalis infection
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- Grüttner, Jana (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi och immunologi
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- van Rijn, Jorik M. (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi
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- Geiser, Petra (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi
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- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023
- 2023
- English.
- In: PLoS Pathogens. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1553-7366 .- 1553-7374. ; 19:5
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Giardia intestinalis is a non-invasive, protozoan parasite infecting the upper small intestine of most mammals. Symptomatic infections cause the diarrhoeal disease giardiasis in humans and animals, but at least half of the infections are asymptomatic. However, the molecular underpinnings of these different outcomes of the infection are still poorly defined. Here, we studied the early transcriptional response to G. intestinalis trophozoites, the disease-causing life-cycle stage, in human enteroid-derived, 2-dimensional intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) monolayers. Trophozoites preconditioned in media that maximise parasite fitness triggered only neglectable inflammatory transcription in the IECs during the first hours of co-incubation. By sharp contrast, “non-fit” or lysed trophozoites induced a vigorous IEC transcriptional response, including high up-regulation of many inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. Furthermore, “fit” trophozoites could even suppress the stimulatory effect of lysed trophozoites in mixed infections, suggesting active G. intestinalis suppression of the IEC response. By dual-species RNA-sequencing, we defined the IEC and G. intestinalis gene expression programs associated with these differential outcomes of the infection. Taken together, our results inform on how G. intestinalis infection can lead to such highly variable effects on the host, and pinpoints trophozoite fitness as a key determinant of the IEC response to this common parasite.Author summaryDiarrhoeal infectious diseases are still a major problem worldwide, each year killing nearly 800,000 children. These infections are caused by a variety of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa. The protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis is the most common eukaryotic intestinal pathogen found in humans. In contrast to most bacteria and viruses that cause diarrhoea, Giardia parasites elicit a highly variable clinical picture and often do not cause pronounced inflammation in the intestine of infected patients. Here we show, by using human intestinal epithelial cells derived from adult intestinal stem cells, that “fit” Giardia parasites can actively suppress epithelial inflammatory signalling, while their “non-fit” counterparts instead induce inflammatory responses. These two faces of the parasite are associated with specific gene expression programs and may explain the earlier observed high variability in outcome of a Giardia infection, and its modulatory effect on infection by other intestinal pathogens.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Mikrobiologi inom det medicinska området (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine -- Microbiology in the medical area (hsv//eng)
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