PMID- 28727780 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20171010 LR - 20181113 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 7 DP - 2017 TI - Comparative analysis of signature genes in PRRSV-infected porcine monocyte-derived cells to different stimuli. PG - e0181256 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0181256 [doi] LID - e0181256 AB - Monocyte-derived DCs (mDCs) are major target cells in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) pathogenesis; however, the plasticity of mDCs in response to activation stimuli and PRRSV infection remains unstudied. In this study, we polarized mDCs, and applied genome-wide transcriptomic analysis and predicted protein-protein interaction networks to compare signature genes involved in mDCs activation and response to PRRSV infection. Porcine mDCs were polarized with mediators for 30 hours, then mock-infected, infected with PRRSV strain VR2332, or a highly pathogenic PRRSV strain (rJXwn06), for 5 h. Total RNA was extracted and used to construct sequencing libraries for RNA-Seq. Comparisons were made between each polarized and unpolarized group (i.e. mediator vs. PBS), and between PRRSV-infected and uninfected cells stimulated with the same mediator. Differentially expressed genes (DEG) from the comparisons were used for prediction of interaction networks affected by the viruses and mediators. The results showed that PRRSV infection inhibited M1-prone immune activity, downregulated genes, predicted network interactions related to cellular integrity, and inflammatory signaling in favor of M2 activity. Additionally, the number of DEG and predicted network interactions stimulated in HP-PRRSV infected mDCs was superior to the VR-2332 infected mDCs and conformed with HP-PRRSV pathogenicity. FAU - Miller, Laura C AU - Miller LC AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8946-9416 AD - Virus and Prion Diseases of Livestock Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, USDA-ARS, 1920 Dayton Ave, Ames, United States of America. FAU - Fleming, Damarius S AU - Fleming DS AD - Virus and Prion Diseases of Livestock Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, USDA-ARS, 1920 Dayton Ave, Ames, United States of America. FAU - Li, Xiangdong AU - Li X AD - National Research Center for Veterinary Medicine, Cuiwei Rd, High-Tech District, Luoyang, Henan, China. FAU - Bayles, Darrell O AU - Bayles DO AD - Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, USDA-ARS, 1920 Dayton Ave, Ames, United States of America. FAU - Blecha, Frank AU - Blecha F AD - Department of Anatomy and Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, United States of America. FAU - Sang, Yongming AU - Sang Y AD - Department of Anatomy and Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, United States of America. AD - Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, Human and Natural Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A. Merritt Boulevard, Nashville, United States of America. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170720 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Polarity MH - Gene Expression Profiling MH - Gene Regulatory Networks MH - Monocytes/cytology/*virology MH - Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome/*genetics MH - Protein Interaction Maps MH - Signal Transduction MH - Swine MH - Transcriptome PMC - PMC5519058 COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2017/07/21 06:00 MHDA- 2017/10/11 06:00 PMCR- 2017/07/20 CRDT- 2017/07/21 06:00 PHST- 2016/10/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/06/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/07/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/07/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/10/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/07/20 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-16-42832 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0181256 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2017 Jul 20;12(7):e0181256. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181256. eCollection 2017.