Journal
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08341-7
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- Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) through Canada First Research Excellence Fund
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Integrated Pathogen Management of Co-infection in Atlantic salmon (IPMC) project - Government of Canada through Genome Canada
- Genome Atlantic
- Cargill Innovation
- Government of Newfoundland and Labrador through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation
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This study characterized the transcriptome responses of Atlantic salmon skin infected with the pathogen Moritella viscosa. The results revealed massive and strong dysregulations in the transcriptome at the infection site, while effects beyond the lesion site were comparably subtle. The transcripts induced by M. viscosa were mainly involved in immune response-related pathways.
Moritella viscosa is a Gram-negative pathogen that causes large, chronic ulcers, known as winter-ulcer disease, in the skin of several fish species including Atlantic salmon. We used a bath challenge approach to profile the transcriptome responses of M. viscosa-infected Atlantic salmon skin at the lesion (Mv-At) and away from the lesion (Mv-Aw) sites. M. viscosa infection was confirmed through RNA-based qPCR assays. RNA-Seq identified 5212 and 2911 transcripts differentially expressed in the Mv-At compared to no-infection control and Mv-Aw groups, respectively. Also, there were 563 differentially expressed transcripts when comparing the Mv-Aw to control samples. Our results suggest that M. viscosa caused massive and strong, but largely infection site-focused, transcriptome dysregulations in Atlantic salmon skin, and its effects beyond the skin lesion site were comparably subtle. The M. viscosa-induced transcripts of Atlantic salmon were mainly involved in innate and adaptive immune response-related pathways, whereas the suppressed transcripts by this pathogen were largely connected to developmental and cellular processes. As validated by qPCR, M. viscosa dysregulated transcripts encoding receptors, signal transducers, transcription factors and immune effectors playing roles in TLR- and IFN-dependent pathways as well as immunoregulation, antigen presentation and T-cell development. This study broadened the current understanding of molecular pathways underlying M. viscosa-triggered responses of Atlantic salmon, and identified biomarkers that may assist to diagnose and combat this pathogen.
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