scholarly journals Transcriptome study of receptive endometrium in overweight and obese women shows important expression differences in immune response and inflammatory pathways in women who do not conceive

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261873
Author(s):  
Vesna Salamun ◽  
Eda Vrtacnik Bokal ◽  
Ales Maver ◽  
Tanja Burnik Papler
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Reactive Oxygen Species Production ◽  
Embryo Implantation ◽  
Biological Pathways ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Oxygen Species ◽  
Obese Women ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Women Of Reproductive Age ◽  
Species Production

Obesity and being overweight are growing worldwide health problems that also affect women of reproductive age. They impair women’s fertility and are associated with lower IVF success rates. The mechanism by which increased body weight disrupts fertility has not yet been established. One possibility is that it affects the process of embryo implantation on the endometrial level. The purpose of our study was to determine the differences in enriched biological pathways in the endometrium of overweight and obese women undergoing IVF procedures. For this purpose, 14 patients (5 pregnant, 9 non-pregnant) were included in the study. Endometrial samples were obtained during the window of implantation and RNA sequencing was performed. There were no differences in general patient’s and IVF cycle characteristics between pregnant and non-pregnant women. In the endometrial samples of women who did not conceive, pathways related to the immune response, inflammation, and reactive oxygen species production were over-expressed. Our findings show that the reason for implantation failure in overweight and obese women could lie in the excessive immune and inflammatory response at the endometrial level.

scholarly journals Dissection of the Interplay between Class I PI3Ks and Rac Signaling in Phagocytic Functions

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1826-1839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlotta Costa ◽  
Giulia Germena ◽  
Emilio Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Reactive Oxygen Species ◽  
Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immunity ◽  
Reactive Oxygen Species Production ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Oxygen Species ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rac Gtpases ◽  
Lipid Kinases ◽  
Species Production

Phagocytes, like neutrophils and macrophages, are specialized cells evolved to clear infectious pathogens. This function resides at the core of innate immunity and requires a series of concerted events that lead first to migration to the infected tissue and then to the killing of the invading pathogens. Molecular mechanisms underlying these processes are starting to emerge and point to the interplay between two families of crucial proteins: the PI3K lipid kinases and the Rac GTPases. This review focuses on how these two protein families contribute to migration, phagocytosis, and reactive oxygen species production, as well as their epistatic and feedback relations that finely tune these crucial aspects of the immune response.

scholarly journals Ubiquitination of Listeria Virulence Factor InlC Contributes to the Host Response to Infection

mBio ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Gouin ◽  
Damien Balestrino ◽  
Orhan Rasid ◽  
Marie-Anne Nahori ◽  
Véronique Villiers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reactive Oxygen Species ◽  
Immune Response ◽  
Listeria Monocytogenes ◽  
Host Response ◽  
Reactive Oxygen Species Production ◽  
Reactive Oxygen ◽  
Oxygen Species ◽  
Pathogenic Potential ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Species Production

ABSTRACT Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic bacterium causing potentially fatal foodborne infections in humans and animals. While the mechanisms used by Listeria to manipulate its host have been thoroughly characterized, how the host controls bacterial virulence factors remains to be extensively deciphered. Here, we found that the secreted Listeria virulence protein InlC is monoubiquitinated by the host cell machinery on K224, restricting infection. We show that the ubiquitinated form of InlC interacts with the intracellular alarmin S100A9, resulting in its stabilization and in increased reactive oxygen species production by neutrophils in infected mice. Collectively, our results suggest that posttranslational modification of InlC exacerbates the host response upon Listeria infection. IMPORTANCE The pathogenic potential of Listeria monocytogenes relies on the production of an arsenal of virulence determinants that have been extensively characterized, including surface and secreted proteins of the internalin family. We have previously shown that the Listeria secreted internalin InlC interacts with IκB kinase α to interfere with the host immune response (E. Gouin, M. Adib-Conquy, D. Balestrino, M.-A. Nahori, et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 107:17333–17338, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1007765107). In the present work, we report that InlC is monoubiquitinated on K224 upon infection of cells and provide evidence that ubiquitinated InlC interacts with and stabilizes the alarmin S100A9, which is a critical regulator of the immune response and inflammatory processes. Additionally, we show that ubiquitination of InlC causes an increase in reactive oxygen species production by neutrophils in mice and restricts Listeria infection. These findings are the first to identify a posttranscriptional modification of an internalin contributing to host defense.

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