• Frontiers in immunology · Jan 2020

    Transcriptome Profiling of Lung Innate Immune Responses Potentially Associated With the Pathogenesis of Acinetobacter baumannii Acute Lethal Pneumonia.

    • Xi Zeng, Hao Gu, Liusheng Peng, Yao Yang, Ning Wang, Yun Shi, and Quanming Zou.
    • Department of Microbiology and Biochemical Pharmacy, National Engineering Research Center of Immunological Products, College of Pharmacy, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China.
    • Front Immunol. 2020 Jan 1; 11: 708.

    AbstractAcinetobacter baumannii is one of the dominating causes of nosocomial pneumonia, however, very little is known about the host immune response associated with pathogenesis of A. baumannii infection. Here, we used a hypervirulent A. baumannii to establish an acute lethal pneumonia, supported by high bacterial burdens, severe inflammatory cells infiltration and lung damage. The lung transcriptome changes in response to A. baumannii lethal pneumonia were detected by RNA sequencing. The results showed that 6,288 host genes changed expression, with 3,313 upregulated genes and 2,975 downregulated genes. Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway analysis revealed that genes related to TNF, cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction, Toll-like receptor, NOD-like receptor, NF-κB, Jak-STAT, HIF-1 signaling pathways, apoptosis, and phagosome were significantly upregulated. Whereas, genes associated with PI3K-AKT signaling pathway, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, amino acid and fatty acid metabolism were downregulated. Immune cell typing highlighted the inflammatory response of innate immune cells headed by neutrophils. The reliability of RNA sequencing results were verified with selected differentially expressed genes by real-time PCR. This work provides an insight into the pathogenesis of lethal A. baumannii lung infection.Copyright © 2020 Zeng, Gu, Peng, Yang, Wang, Shi and Zou.

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