Tick Immune Signaling, Microbiota, and Acquisition of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum

蜱免疫信号传导、微生物群以及伯氏疏螺旋体和嗜吞噬细胞无形体的获得

• 批准号: 9976322
• 负责人: Erol Fikrig
• 金额: $ 153.75万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-13 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9976322
• 关键词: Address; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Anaplasmosis; Area; Biological; Biological Assay; Black-legged Tick; Blood; Borrelia burgdorferi; CRISPR/Cas technology; Cell Line; Cells; Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats; Collaborations; Communities; Data; Detection; Development; Europe; Event; Fostering; Future; Generations; Genetic; Goals; Homeostasis; Human; Human Resources; Immune; Immune response; Immune signaling; Immune system; Immunity; Immunobiology; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes; In Vitro; Infection; Ingestion; Institution; Instruction; Invaded; Investigation; Ixodes; Janus kinase; Knowledge; Laboratories; Life Style; Lipids; Lyme Disease; Membrane; Methodology; Microbe; Molecular; Organism; Pathway interactions; Physiology; Plants; Prevalence; Program Research Project Grants; Reagent; Recording of previous events; Reporter; Research; Resources; Role; STAT protein; Scientist; Seeds; Shapes; Signal Pathway; Signal Transduction; Structure; Tick-Borne Infections; Ticks; Training; United States; Vector-transmitted infectious disease; cytokine; data resource; extracellular; genomic platform; gut microbiota; in vivo; innovation; microbial; microbiota; mouse model; neglect; outreach; pathogen; programs; tick-borne pathogen; tool; vector

OVERALL - Abstract The proposed Program Project (P01), entitled “Tick Immune Signaling, Microbiota, and Acquisition of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum” aims to understand the molecular mechanisms by which the Ixodes tick immune system recognizes invading microbes, interfaces with resident gut microbiota, and impact pathogen persistence. We discovered two unorthodox tick immune cascades that are (a) involved in microbial recognition by an indirect “cross-kingdom” circuit triggered by a mammalian cytokine acquired in the vector blood meal, or (b) by a direct induction by specific bacterial lipids through an atypical immunodeficiency pathway. We also established that (c) interactions between tick gut microbiota and invading pathogens shape vector physiology and immunity, ultimately impacting the ability of ticks to acquire B. burgdorferi or A. phagocytophilum. Building on these paradigms and by combining the expertise and resources from four institutions with impressive history of research involving tick-borne infections, we will determine how discrete Ixodes tick immune pathways, either independently or synergistically, influence the entry and persistence of two major pathogens, B. burgdorferi and A. phagocytophilum. These microbes constitute the focus of our proposal due to their diverse structural and genetic features, their different lifestyles - either extracellular or intracellular - and the fact that they are responsible for the most prevalent tick-borne infections in the United States and many parts of Europe. This Program Project Grant leverages specific assays, tools and methodologies developed by our laboratories, who have a long history of productive collaboration, and which will be supported by an Administrative Core, and a Tick Resource Core whereby organisms and cell lines will be shared. The proposed aims to achieve the goals of this P01 are 1) Develop a Tick Core that provides the research reagents to all projects and to scientific community; 2) Determine how mammalian factors present in tick blood meal stimulate multiple cross-species immunity signaling pathways impacting persistence of diverse pathogens; 3) Investigate molecular basis of microbial detection in ticks via signaling relays and crosstalk by multiple immune pathways; 4) Examine interactions between tick immunome and gut microbiota and how these events impact persistence of tick-borne pathogens. Altogether, this proposal will increase our fundamental understanding of how tick immune signaling pathways operate and interface with the gut microbiota to influence the ability of diverse tick-borne pathogens to persist in the vector and subsequently infect the vertebrate host. The outreach activities generated by sharing the research data, and resources to the scientific community will plant new seeds of innovative research furthering our knowledge of tick-borne infections. Finally, with the technical and conceptual breakthroughs expected, the P01 will entice a new generation of scientists to be engaged and advance this important, yet neglected field of scientific research.

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