Transcriptional profiling of hepatocytes infected with the replicative form of the malaria parasite Plasmodium cynomolgi

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Background: The zoonotic simian parasite Plasmodium cynomolgi develops into replicating schizonts and dormant hypnozoites during the infection of hepatocytes and is used as a model organism to study relapsing malaria. The transcriptional profiling of P. cynomolgi liver stages was previously reported and revealed many important biological features of the parasite but left out the host response to malaria infection. Methods: Previously published RNA sequencing data were used to quantify the expression of host genes in rhesus macaque hepatocytes infected with P. cynomolgi in comparison to either cells from uninfected samples or uninfected bystander cells. Results: Although the dataset could not be used to resolve the transcriptional profile of hypnozoite-infected hepatocytes, it provided a snapshot of the host response to liver stage schizonts at 9–10 day post-infection and identified specific host pathways that are modulated during the exo-erythrocytic stage of P. cynomolgi. Conclusions: This study constitutes a valuable resource characterizing the hepatocyte response to P. cynomolgi infection and provides a framework to build on future research that aims at understanding hepatocyte-parasite interactions during relapsing malaria infection.

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Mitchell, G., Roma, G., Voorberg-van der Wel, A., Beibel, M., Zeeman, A. M., Schuierer, S., … Diagana, T. T. (2022). Transcriptional profiling of hepatocytes infected with the replicative form of the malaria parasite Plasmodium cynomolgi. Malaria Journal, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04411-3

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