Molecular characterisation of immunological memory following homologous or heterologous challenges in the schistosomiasis vector snail, Biomphalaria glabrata

Invertebrate immune response may be primed by a current infection in a sustained manner, leading to the failure of a secondary infection with the same pathogen. The present study focuses on the Schistosomiasis vector snail Biomphalaria glabrata, in which a specific genotype-dependent immunological memory was demonstrated as a shift from a cellular to a humoral immune response. Herein, we investigate the complex molecular bases associated with this genotype-dependant immunological memory response. We demonstrate that Biomphalaria regulates a polymorphic set of immune recognition molecules and immune effector repertoires to respond to different strains of Schistosoma parasites. These results suggest a combinatorial usage of pathogen recognition receptors (PRRs) that distinguish different strains of parasites during the acquisition of immunological memory. Immunizations also show that snails become resistant after exposure to parasite extracts. Hemolymph transfer and a label-free proteomic analysis proved that circulating hemolymph compounds can be produced and released to more efficiently kill the newly encountered parasite of the same genetic lineage.

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Immunological memory, Specificity, Schistosoma, Biomphalaria, RNAseq, Proteomic, Vaccination

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Supp_Fig. 1_Q-RT-PCR assay.tiff. Q-RT-PCR expression of innate immune memory candidate genes following vaccination. BgBRE snails were either vaccinated or primo-infected with SmBRE Sp1 ...
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Supp_Fig. 2_FREP log2fold changes.tiff. RNAseq-based FREP expressions following homologous or heterologous challenges. Histogram displays cumulative RNAseq Log2FC of differentially expressed ...
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Pinaud Silvain, Portet Anais, Allienne Jean-Francois, Belmudes Lucid, Saint-Beat Cecile, Arancibia Nathalie, Galinier Richard, Du Pasquier Louis, Duval David, Gourbal Benjamin (2019). Molecular characterisation of immunological memory following homologous or heterologous challenges in the schistosomiasis vector snail, Biomphalaria glabrata. Developmental And Comparative Immunology. 92. 238-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dci.2018.12.001, https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00615/72738/

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