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Series GSE166258 Query DataSets for GSE166258
Status Public on Jul 01, 2021
Title Expression patterns of Plasmodium falciparum clonally variant genes at the onset of a blood infection in non-immune humans
Platform organism Plasmodium falciparum
Sample organism Plasmodium falciparum NF54
Experiment type Expression profiling by array
Summary Clonally variant genes (CVGs) play fundamental roles in the adaptation of Plasmodium falciparum parasites to the fluctuating conditions of the human host, but their expression patterns under the natural conditions of the blood circulation have been characterized in detail only for a few specific gene families. Here we provide a detailed characterization of the full P. falciparum transcriptome across the full intraerythrocytic development cycle (IDC) at the onset of a blood infection in non-immune human volunteers. We found that the vast majority of transcriptional differences between parasites obtained from the volunteers and the parental parasite line maintained in culture occur for CVGs. Specifically, we observed a major increase in the transcript levels of most members of the pfmc-2tm and gbp families and of specific genes of other families, in addition to previously reported changes in var and clag3 genes. The expression patterns were almost identical between parasites obtained from the different volunteers. Large transcriptional differences correlate with changes in the distribution of histone modifications associated with heterochromatin, confirming their epigenetic nature. The analysis of parasites collected at different points along the infection indicates that when parasites pass through transmission stages, the epigenetic memory at CVG loci is lost, resulting in a reset of their expression state and reestablishment of new epigenetic patterns.
 
Overall design Time-course transcriptomic analysis of parental NF54 line (two biological replicates: NF54 I and NF54 II) and of parasites obtained from four different volunteers who participated in a CHMI (V18, V35, V48, V63). Parasites were tightly synchronized to a 5h age window and samples for transcriptomic analysis were collected every 10h at four different time points (10-15h, 20-25h, 30-35h and 40-45h). The reference pool consisted of RNA from NF54 cultures throughout the asexual blood cycle. Total RNA was harvested using the Trizol method. A total number of 24 individual samples were analysed using the microarray design AMADID-085763 (GEO ID: GPL26985).
 
Contributor(s) Pickford A, Michel-Todó L, Cortés A
Citation(s) 34340541
Submission date Feb 05, 2021
Last update date Sep 14, 2021
Contact name Anastasia Pickford
E-mail(s) anastasia.pickford@isglobal.org
Organization name ISGlobal
Lab Malaria Epigenetics
Street address Carrer Rosselló 153
City Barcelona
State/province Barcelona
ZIP/Postal code 08036
Country Spain
 
Platforms (1)
GPL26985 Agilent-085763 Pfalciparum15KArray_Sept18
Samples (24)
GSM5067033 NF54, 10-15h, replicate I
GSM5067034 NF54, 20-25h, replicate I
GSM5067035 NF54, 30-35h, replicate I
Relations
BioProject PRJNA699860

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE166258_RAW.tar 38.3 Mb (http)(custom) TAR (of TXT)
GSE166258_annotated_log_ratio_data.xlsx 5.5 Mb (ftp)(http) XLSX
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Processed data are available on Series record

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