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Batabyal, S.

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bioRxiv2023

Role of IL-6 and IL10 immune response genes against nematode Haemonchus contortus in ovis aries- a novel report

Haemonchus contortus is one of the most deadly parasites affecting sheep industry causing heavy economic loss. In our earlier study, we have reported RIGI, an earlier established antiviral molecule and CD14 (an earlier established antibacterial molecule) to have potential role in antiparasitic immunity for the first time. In this current study, we aim to clone and sequence the IL-6 and IL10 genes in sheep (Ovis aries) and utilized bioinformatics methods to analyze and compare the functional and structural domains of peptides produced from IL6 and IL10. Furthermore, the study explored these domains in three-dimensional structures. The findings of this study provide molecular characterization of IL-6 and IL10 in sheep, which is essential for advancing our understanding of functional immune responses in this animal. We report IL6 and IL10 to have potential antiparasitic role against H. contortus for first time. The production of these molecules opens up possibilities for its potential use as recombinant proteins to manipulate the immune response. Evaluating its value in vaccine research and gaining a broader understanding of its role in immune responses becomes feasible with the availability of IL-6 and IL10. Moreover, the differential mRNA expression levels of IL-6, IL10 between healthy and diseased sheep indicate its crucial role in maintaining homeostasis and mounting immune responses. IL10 acts as receptor for H. contortus. The identification of this immune-responsive gene also offers new avenues for investigating long-term resistance to H. contortus infection in sheep.

genomics↗

bioRxiv2022

Role of RIGI, MDA5 and interferon alpha of duck in Duck Plague infection, a novel report

Duck Plague (DP) or Duck viral enteritis is an acute contagious and highly fatal disease in water fowl commonly caused by Anatidalphavirus-1 belonging from Herpesviridae family and contains double stranded DNA as genetic material. Pathogen associated molecular pattern (PAMP)s when identified by Pathogen Recognition Receptor (PRR)s acts as effective immunity system action against the pathogen. Melanoma Differentiation-Associated protein 5 (MDA5) and Retionic Acid Inducible Gene I (RIG1) are protein sensor commonly sense for viral double stranded RNA and helps for pro-inflammatory cytokine expression. Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue (GALT)s have important role in immune response. The current study depicts the important role of three important immune response genes as RIGI, MDA5 and INFalpha in duck plague infestation for the first time. In silico studies followed by differential mRNA expression of RIG1, MDA5 and INFalpha was employed to detect effectiveness of gut associated immune responsiveness in liver, where kupfer cells are the major immune response cells. This was further confirmed through histological section of liver, kupfer cell and immunohistochemistry. This will be helpful to identify molecular mechanism of host innate immunity through duck plague virus infection in indigenous duck. This information may be helful for production of duck with the inherent resistance against duck plague virus infection through suitable biotechnological approaches as gene editing.Due to this inherent nature of better immunity in terms of resistance to other common avian diseases, duck will evolve as one of the major sustainable poultry species.The current study explores the scope to study host immunity against herpes virus in animal model.

genomics↗

bioRxiv2021

Ovine CD14- an immune response gene has a role against gastrointesinal nematode Haemonchus contortus -a novel report

CD14 (also known as monocyte differentiation antigen) is an important immune response gene known to be primarily responsible for innate immunity against bacterial pathogen and as pattern recognition receptor (PRR) binds with LPS (endotoxin), lipoproteins, lipotechoic acid of bacteria.So far very limited work has been conducted in parasitic immunology. In the current study, we reported the role of CD14 in parasitic immunology in livestock species (sheep) for the first time. Ovine CD14 is characterized as a horse-shoe shaped as a bent solenoid with a hydrophobic amino-terminal pocket for CD14 along with domains. High mutation frequency was observed, out of total 41 mutations identified, 23 mutations were observed to be thermodynamically unstable and 11 mutations were deleterious in nature, causing major functional alteration of important domains of CD14, an indicative for variations in individual susceptibility for sheeps against Haemonchus contortus infestations. In silico studies with molecular docking reveals a role of immune response against Haemonchus contortus in sheep, which is later confirmed with experimental evidence through differential mRNA expression analysis for sheep, which revealed better expression of CD14 in Haemonchus contortus infected sheep compared to that of healthy sheep. We confirmed the above findings with supportive evidences with haematological and biochemical analyses. Phylogenetic analysis was conducted to assess the evolutionary relationship with respect to human and observed that sheep may well be used as model organism due better genetic closeness compared to that of mouse.

genomics↗

bioRxiv2019

Nano-enhanced optical gene delivery to retinal degenerated mice

The efficient and targeted delivery of genes and other impermeable therapeutic molecules into retinal cells is of immense importance for therapy of various visual disorders. Traditional methods for gene delivery require viral transfection, or chemical methods that suffer from one or many drawbacks such as invasiveness, low efficiency, lack of spatially targeted delivery, and can generally have deleterious effects such as unexpected inflammatory responses and immunological reactions. Here, we introduce a continuous wave near-infrared laser-based Nano-enhanced Optical Delivery (NOD) method for spatially controlled delivery of opsin-encoding genes into retina in-vivo. In this method, the optical field enhancement by gold nanorods is utilized to transiently permeabilize cell membrane enabling delivery of exogenous impermeable molecules to nanorod-binding cells in laser-irradiated regions. The successful delivery and expression of opsin in targeted retina after in-vivo NOD in the mice models of retinal degeneration opens new vista for re-photosensitizing retina with geographic atrophies as in dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

bioengineering↗

bioRxiv2018

Bioluminescent Multi-Characteristic Opsin for monitoring visual cortical activity upon optical stimulation

Non-invasive detection of neural activity is important for the diagnosis of neurological diseases, evaluation of therapeutic outcomes, and collection of real-time feedback for stimulation based therapeutic approaches. In the case of vision loss, due to retinal degeneration, optic neuropathy, or enucleation of the eye, there is a need to map changes in visual cortical activity during disease progression and subsequent vision restoration by retinal, optic nerve or cortical stimulation. Existing technologies allow interrogation of neuronal circuits by both read and write activity, albeit with inherent limitations. Here, we present the development of bioluminescent multi-characteristic opsin (bMCO-11), which is comprised of a highly photosensitive ambient light-activatable domain and a Ca2+-sensitive bioluminescence reporter. The high quantum efficiency of bMCO-11 enables light activation and recording of cellular activity upon local as well as wide area optical stimulation. Furthermore, persistent Ca2+ influx was achieved by bioluminescence based cyclic activation of the opsin-domain of bMCO-11 by transporting the ions only into bMCO expressing cells. This allowed us to continuously monitor visual cortical activity in wild type and retinal degenerated mice, without requiring any additional external excitation source.

neuroscience↗