Comment[ArrayExpressAccession] E-GEOD-45170 MAGE-TAB Version 1.1 Public Release Date 2013-03-15 Investigation Title Different responses of murine and human macrophages to leptospiral infection revealed by comparative array analysis Comment[Submitted Name] Different responses of murine and human macrophages to leptospiral infection revealed by comparative array analysis Experiment Description Leptospirosis is a re-emerging tropical infectious disease caused by the pathogenic Leptospira spp. The different host innate immune responses were partially related to the different severity of leptospirosis. In this study, we employed transcriptomics and cytokine array to comparatively calculate the responses of murine peritoneal macrophages (MPM) and human peripheral blood monocytes (HBM) to leptospiral infection, and uncover a series of different expression regulations of these two immune cells. The regulation percentages in several biological processes of MPM, such as the antigen process and presentation, the regulation of membrane potential, and the innate immune response, etc., were much greater than those of HBM (>2 folds). In HBM and MPM, the CASP8 and FADD-like apoptosis regulator genes were significantly up-regulated, which supported previous results that the caspase-8/3 pathway plays an important role in macrophage apoptosis during leptospiral infection. The key component of complement pathway, C3, was only up-regulated in MPM. Several cytokines (e.g. IL-10, TNF-alpha) were differently expressed at both mRNA and protein level in MPM and HBM. The differences in the transcriptomics and the cytokine expression revealed in this study were partially consistent with the different outcomes of the chronic and acute leptospirosis; thus, these findings facilitated further molecular study on the innate immune response to leptospiral infection. Murine peritoneal macrophages (MPM) and human peripheral blood monocytes (HBM) were infected by pathogenic Leptospira. The host cells were collected at 1h, 2h, and 4h after infection. The uninfected macrophage sample was designed as a negative control. Three biological replicates were designed for each sample type. There were totally 24 hybridizations (12 for MPM, and 12 for HBM) included in this submission. Term Source Name ArrayExpress EFO Term Source File http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/ http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/efo.owl Person Last Name Xue Xue Zhao Person First Name Feng Feng Jinping Person Email geo@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Person Affiliation Beijing Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University Person Address Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Beijing Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 95, Yong'an Road, Beijing, Beijing, China Person Roles submitter Protocol Name P-GSE45170-1 P-GSE45170-6 P-GSE45170-3 P-GSE45170-8 P-GSE45170-7 P-GSE45170-2 P-GSE45170-4 P-GSE45170-5 Protocol Description ID_REF = VALUE = quantile normalized The labeled samples were hybridized to the OneArrayTM whole genome microarray with Phalanx hybridization buffer using cover slides. After overnight hybridization at 50M-0C, non-specific binding targets were washed away using 3 different washing steps. Murine peritoneal macrophages (MPMs) were isolated from male BALB/c mice (6 to 8 weeks old) by washing the peritoneal cavities with cold RPMI 1640 medium. Macrophages were seeded in 75cm2 tissue culture flasks (Corning. Inc., Big Flats, NY) and the cell numbers were counted in a haemocytometer. The cells were cultured in RPMI 1640 medium (supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum, 100 M-NM-