Collaborative Research: Defining the role of skin microbiomes in defense against chytridiomycosis in frogs with seasonal infections
合作研究:确定皮肤微生物组在防御季节性感染的青蛙壶菌病中的作用
基本信息
- 批准号:2011291
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 46.9万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:美国
- 项目类别:Standard Grant
- 财政年份:2020
- 资助国家:美国
- 起止时间:2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
- 项目状态:已结题
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项目摘要
Microbiomes are a ubiquitous part of all ecosystems including the skin. Although the idea that “good” microbes can defend against pathogens is widely accepted, it is still unclear how microbial communities provide benefits to the host under variable climates. This research will examine the defense mechanisms against a lethal skin fungus that has been associated with global amphibian declines. The studies will investigate the links between natural skin microbes and frog immunity to understand seasonal changes in disease outcomes using a species of frog that can die of infection but can survive under optimal environmental conditions. This project addresses the interplay between disease susceptibility and immunity for species that do not have a free-living tadpole stage but instead are direct-developing frogs. Considering the current changes in weather patterns, seasonality is expected to shift over time, adding more instability to host-pathogen relationships. To address how microbiomes in skin interact with the immunological response to this pathogen, the researchers will study frogs in natural populations and perform controlled laboratory experiments. The results will allow better predictions about the impact of seasonal variations on species interactions that can influence defense against emerging diseases. The researchers will develop and disseminate course materials for a college-level Disease Ecology course that integrates fundamental concepts from ecology and evolution and from the molecular level to ecosystem impacts. In addition, the researchers will work with the Florida Museum of Natural History to develop outreach travel exhibitions targeted to middle schoolers about amphibian disease ecology and microbiomes. Amphibians are globally threatened by chytridiomycosis, a fungal disease caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, and hosts often live under dynamic cycles of low and high pathogen risk. This proposal will focus on the direct-developing frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui, a species that persists in the wild with infections modulated by abiotic factors and microbial communities. The researchers will test if host immune defenses interact with skin microbiome by regulating the presence/absence of certain bacterial members, in turn influencing susceptibility to fungal infection. The researchers will assemble sets of microbial consortia (i.e., groupings of putative symbionts with different community structures) to quantify host immune defenses including constitutive immunity and adaptive responses in the field and in the lab. The proposal includes three research objectives: 1) characterize population-level seasonal consortia of skin bacteria, immune defenses in the skin secretions, and their interactions, 2) test for the redistribution of host defenses under contrasting backgrounds of bacterial diversity, and 3) measure life-stage variability in putative symbionts, host skin defenses, and resulting pathogen burden. The project will leverage individual-level data from host defenses and microbiological assays, microbiome amplicon sequencing, and functional genomics to evaluate the timing and magnitude of responses. Integrated studies of skin microbiomes seen through the lens of host skin defenses under different environmental conditions will shed light on the role of the environment, immunity, and microbiome in resistance and tolerance to disease.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
微生物组是包括皮肤在内的所有生态系统中无处不在的一部分。虽然“好”微生物可以抵御病原体的观点被广泛接受,但微生物群落如何在多变的气候条件下为宿主提供益处仍不清楚。这项研究将研究对一种致命的皮肤真菌的防御机制,这种真菌与全球两栖动物的减少有关。这些研究将调查天然皮肤微生物与青蛙免疫力之间的联系,以了解疾病结果的季节性变化,使用一种可能死于感染但可以在最佳环境条件下生存的青蛙。该项目旨在研究疾病易感性和免疫力之间的相互作用,这些物种没有自由生活的蝌蚪阶段,而是直接发育的青蛙。考虑到目前天气模式的变化,季节性预计将随着时间的推移而变化,增加宿主-病原体关系的不稳定性。为了解决皮肤中的微生物组如何与对这种病原体的免疫反应相互作用,研究人员将研究自然种群中的青蛙并进行受控实验室实验。这些结果将有助于更好地预测季节变化对物种相互作用的影响,这些相互作用可能会影响对新出现疾病的防御。研究人员将开发和传播课程材料,用于大学水平的疾病生态学课程,该课程整合了生态学和进化的基本概念,以及从分子水平到生态系统影响的基本概念。此外,研究人员将与佛罗里达自然历史博物馆合作,开发针对中学生的关于两栖动物疾病生态和微生物组的外展旅游展览。两栖动物受到壶菌病的全球威胁,壶菌病是一种由Batrachochytrium dendrobatim引起的真菌疾病,宿主通常生活在低和高病原体风险的动态循环中。该提案将重点关注直接发育的青蛙Eleutherodactylus coqui,这是一种在野外持续存在的物种,其感染受非生物因素和微生物群落的调节。研究人员将测试宿主免疫防御是否通过调节某些细菌成员的存在/不存在与皮肤微生物组相互作用,从而影响对真菌感染的易感性。研究人员将组装一组微生物财团(即,具有不同群落结构的推定共生体的分组)来量化宿主免疫防御,包括田间和实验室中的组成性免疫和适应性反应。该提案包括三个研究目标:1)表征皮肤细菌的群体水平季节性聚生体、皮肤分泌物中的免疫防御及其相互作用,2)测试细菌多样性对比背景下宿主防御的重新分配,以及3)测量推定共生体、宿主皮肤防御和由此产生的病原体负担的生命阶段变异性。该项目将利用来自宿主防御和微生物测定、微生物组扩增子测序和功能基因组学的个体水平数据来评估响应的时间和幅度。通过不同环境条件下宿主皮肤防御的透镜观察皮肤微生物群的综合研究,将阐明环境、免疫力和微生物群在抵抗和耐受疾病中的作用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命,通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估,被认为值得支持。
项目成果
期刊论文数量(6)
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Immune evasion by the salamander-killing chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans
杀死蝾螈的壶菌(Batrachochytrium salamdrivorans)的免疫逃避
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- 发表时间:2022
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:3.1
- 作者:Rollins-Smith, L.A.;Reinert, L.K.;Le Sage, M.;Linney, K.N.;Gillard, B.M.;Umile, T.P.;Minbiole, K.P.C.
- 通讯作者:Minbiole, K.P.C.
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{{ truncateString('Louise Rollins-Smith', 18)}}的其他基金
Collaborative Research: Macrophages: Guardians of amphibian skin antifungal defenses
合作研究:巨噬细胞:两栖动物皮肤抗真菌防御的守护者
- 批准号:
2147467 - 财政年份:2022
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Standard Grant
Collaborative Research: Host and Pathogen Interactions in the Amphibian Disease, Chytridiomycosis
合作研究:两栖动物疾病壶菌病中宿主和病原体的相互作用
- 批准号:
1557634 - 财政年份:2016
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
Immune Mechanisms of Disease Resistance in Amphibian Skin
两栖动物皮肤抗病的免疫机制
- 批准号:
1121758 - 财政年份:2012
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
Conference: International Travel for Students and Postdocs to attend the 12th Congress of the International Soc. for Dev. and Compar. Immunology, July 9-13, 2012, Fukuoka, Japan
会议:学生和博士后参加国际社会委员会第十二届大会的国际旅行。
- 批准号:
1211121 - 财政年份:2012
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Standard Grant
Immune Responses in Amphibians against a Skin Fungus Linked to Global Amphibian Declines
两栖动物对皮肤真菌的免疫反应与全球两栖动物数量下降有关
- 批准号:
0843207 - 财政年份:2009
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
Antimicrobial Peptide Defenses in Amphibian Skin
两栖动物皮肤中的抗菌肽防御
- 批准号:
0619536 - 财政年份:2007
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Standard Grant
Immune Mechanisms of Disease Resistance in Amphibian Skin
两栖动物皮肤抗病的免疫机制
- 批准号:
0520847 - 财政年份:2005
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
Antimicrobial Peptide Defenses in Amphibian Skin
两栖动物皮肤中的抗菌肽防御
- 批准号:
0131184 - 财政年份:2002
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
Early Development of the Thymus/Growth Factors and Thyroid Hormones
胸腺/生长因子和甲状腺激素的早期发育
- 批准号:
9809876 - 财政年份:1998
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
Ontogeny of Immunity in Frogs/Metamorphic Changes
青蛙免疫的个体发育/变态变化
- 批准号:
9421349 - 财政年份:1995
- 资助金额:
$ 46.9万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
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