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Alternative Title:
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003061
Personal Author:
Garamszegi, Sara ; Yen, Judy Y. ; Honko, Anna N. ; Geisbert, Joan B. ; Rubins, Kathleen H. ; ... More +
Garamszegi, Sara ; Yen, Judy Y. ; Honko, Anna N. ; Geisbert, Joan B. ; Rubins, Kathleen H. ; Geisbert, Thomas W. ; Xia, Yu ; Hensley, Lisa E. ; Connor, John H. Less -
Description:
Ebola virus (EBOV) infection in humans and non-human primates (NHPs) is highly lethal, and there is limited understanding of the mechanisms associated with pathogenesis and survival. Here, we describe a transcriptomic analysis of NHPs that survived lethal EBOV infection, compared to NHPs that did not survive. It has been previously demonstrated that anticoagulant therapeutics increase the survival rate in EBOV-infected NHPs, and that the characteristic transcriptional profile of immune response changes in anticoagulant-treated NHPs. In order to identify transcriptional signatures that correlate with survival following EBOV infection, we compared the mRNA expression profile in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from EBOV-infected NHPs that received anticoagulant treatment, to those that did not receive treatment. We identified a small set of 20 genes that are highly confident predictors and can accurately distinguish between surviving and non-surviving animals. In addition, we identified a larger predictive signature of 238 genes that correlated with disease outcome and treatment; this latter signature was associated with a variety of host responses, such as the inflammatory response, T cell death, and inhibition of viral replication. Notably, among survival-associated genes were subsets of genes that are transcriptionally regulated by (1) CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha, (2) tumor protein 53, and (3) megakaryoblastic leukemia 1 and myocardin-like protein 2. These pathways merit further investigation as potential transcriptional signatures of host immune response to EBOV infection.
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Animals
Anticoagulants
Disease Models, Animal
Ebolavirus
Gene Expression Profiling
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Leukocytes, Mononuclear
Macaca Mulatta
Microarray Analysis
Treatment Outcome

Source:
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014; 8(7).
Document Type:
Journal Article
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CDC Public Access
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