TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis of the biliary transcriptome in experimental biliary atresia
AU - Carvalho, Elisa
AU - Liu, Cong
AU - Shivakumar, Pranavkumar
AU - Sabla, Gregg
AU - Aronow, Bruce
AU - Bezerra, Jorge A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by a National Institutes of Health grant DK072571 (to J.A.B.) and by a Digestive Disease Research Development Core Center of Cincinnati grant (DK032512).
PY - 2005/8
Y1 - 2005/8
N2 - Background & Aims: Discovery of the pathogenic mechanisms of biliary atresia has been limited by the inability to study extrahepatic biliary tissues from patients at early phases of disease. Here, we used a rotavirus-induced model of biliary atresia to investigate the entire biliary transcriptome for molecular networks activated at the onset and different phases of progression to duct obstruction. Methods: We injected Balb/c mice with saline or rotavirus intraperitoneally within 24 hours of birth, microdissected the gallbladder and extrahepatic bile ducts en bloc 3, 7, and 14 days later, generated biotinylated RNA pools, and hybridized them against microarrays containing 45,101 gene products. Results: Data filtering, cluster analysis, and functional assignment of the gene expression platform revealed 2 unique patterns of expression. The first was an overarching expression of genes regulating immunity, enzymes, and structural proteins at all phases of atresia. Within this pattern, the sequential expression of the interferon inducers Irf7 and Irf9 at the onset of injury, and interferon-γ and interferon-γ-activated genes (Stat1, Igtp, Cxcl9, Cxcl10) at the time of duct obstruction, pointed to a prominent proinflammatory circuit. The second was the time-restricted expression of genes regulating biological networks previously unrecognized in biliary atresia, such as the complement components C3ar-1 and C1q-α/β. Conclusions: The coordinate expression of functionally related genes in the biliary transcriptome underscores a predominant proinflammatory footprint and provides a basis for identification of gene groups that may play regulatory roles in the pathogenesis of duct injury and obstruction in experimental biliary atresia.
AB - Background & Aims: Discovery of the pathogenic mechanisms of biliary atresia has been limited by the inability to study extrahepatic biliary tissues from patients at early phases of disease. Here, we used a rotavirus-induced model of biliary atresia to investigate the entire biliary transcriptome for molecular networks activated at the onset and different phases of progression to duct obstruction. Methods: We injected Balb/c mice with saline or rotavirus intraperitoneally within 24 hours of birth, microdissected the gallbladder and extrahepatic bile ducts en bloc 3, 7, and 14 days later, generated biotinylated RNA pools, and hybridized them against microarrays containing 45,101 gene products. Results: Data filtering, cluster analysis, and functional assignment of the gene expression platform revealed 2 unique patterns of expression. The first was an overarching expression of genes regulating immunity, enzymes, and structural proteins at all phases of atresia. Within this pattern, the sequential expression of the interferon inducers Irf7 and Irf9 at the onset of injury, and interferon-γ and interferon-γ-activated genes (Stat1, Igtp, Cxcl9, Cxcl10) at the time of duct obstruction, pointed to a prominent proinflammatory circuit. The second was the time-restricted expression of genes regulating biological networks previously unrecognized in biliary atresia, such as the complement components C3ar-1 and C1q-α/β. Conclusions: The coordinate expression of functionally related genes in the biliary transcriptome underscores a predominant proinflammatory footprint and provides a basis for identification of gene groups that may play regulatory roles in the pathogenesis of duct injury and obstruction in experimental biliary atresia.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.gastro.2005.05.052
DO - 10.1016/j.gastro.2005.05.052
M3 - Article
C2 - 16083724
AN - SCOPUS:23244446483
SN - 0016-5085
VL - 129
SP - 713
EP - 717
JO - Gastroenterology
JF - Gastroenterology
IS - 2
ER -