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Mohamed Abdel Monam Dkhil Hamad

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أستاذ بكلية العلوم

كلية العلوم
mdkhil@KSU.EDU.SA
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Journal Article
2020

Vaccination accelerates hepatic erythroblastosis induced by blood-stage malaria

Al-Quraishy, Saleh . 2020

Malaria

Background: Vaccination induces survival of otherwise lethal blood-stage infections of the experimental malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. Blood-stage malaria induces extramedullary erythropoiesis in the liver. This study investigates how vaccination afects the course of malaria-induced expression of erythrocytic genes in the liver. Methods: Female Balb/c mice were vaccinated at week 3 and week 1 before challenging with 106 P. chabaudi-par‑ asitized erythrocytes. The non-infectious vaccine consisted of erythrocyte ghosts isolated from P. chabaudi-infected erythrocytes. Gene expression microarrays and quantitative real-time PCR were used to compare mRNA expression of diferent erythrocytic genes in the liver of vaccination-protected and non-protected mice during infections on days 0, 1, 4, 8, and 11 p.i. Results: Global transcriptomics analyses reveal vaccination-induced modifcations of malaria-induced increases in hepatic gene expression on days 4 and 11 p.i. On these days, vaccination also alters hepatic expression of the eryth‑ ropoiesis-involved genes Ermap, Kel, Rhd, Rhag, Slc4a1, Gypa, Add2, Ank1, Epb4.1, Epb4.2, Epb4.9, Spta1, Sptb, Tmod1, Ahsp, Acyp1, Gata1, Gf1b, Tal1, Klf1, Epor, and Cldn13. In vaccination-protected mice, expression of these genes, except Epb4.1, is signifcantly higher on day 4 p.i. than in un-protected non-vaccinated mice, reaches maximal expression at peak parasitaemia on day 8 p.i., and is slowed down or even decreased towards the end of crisis phase on day 11 p.i.. After day 1 p.i., Epor expression takes about the same course as that of the other erythroid genes. Hepatic expression of Epo, however, is delayed in both vaccinated and non-vaccinated mice for the frst 4 days p.i. and is maximal at sig‑ nifcantly higher levels in vaccinated mice on day 8 p.i., before declining towards the end of crisis phase on day 11 p.i. Conclusion: The present data indicate that vaccination accelerates malaria-induced erythroblastosis in the liver for 1–2 days. This may contribute to earlier replenishment of peripheral red blood cells by liver-derived reticulocytes, which may favour fnal survival of otherwise lethal blood-stage malaria, since reticulocytes are not preferred as host cells by P. chabaudi.

Publication Work Type
Project
Volume Number
19
Issue Number
1
Magazine \ Newspaper
Malaria Journal
Pages
49
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