MicroRNAs play big roles in modulating macrophages response toward mycobacteria infection

Abualgasim Elgaili Abdalla; Xiangke Duan; Wanyan Deng; Jie Zeng; Jianping Xie

doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2016.09.023

MicroRNAs play big roles in modulating macrophages response toward mycobacteria infection

Infect Genet Evol. 2016 Nov:45:378-382. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.09.023. Epub 2016 Sep 28.

Authors

Abualgasim Elgaili Abdalla¹, Xiangke Duan², Wanyan Deng², Jie Zeng², Jianping Xie³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Modern Biopharmaceuticals, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Eco-Environment and Bio-Resource of the Three Gorges Area, Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China; Department of Clinical Microbiology, College of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Omdurman Islamic University, Omdurman, Khartoum, Sudan.
² Institute of Modern Biopharmaceuticals, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Eco-Environment and Bio-Resource of the Three Gorges Area, Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China.
³ Institute of Modern Biopharmaceuticals, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Eco-Environment and Bio-Resource of the Three Gorges Area, Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. Electronic address: georgex@swu.edu.cn.

PMID: 27693402
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.09.023

Abstract

Macrophages are crucial player in the defense against multiple intracellular pathogens. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis which inflicted around one third of global population, can replicate and persist within macrophages. MicroRNAs, endogenous, small noncoding RNA, can regulate the expression of macrophages genes required for appropriate signaling. Mycobacteria can manipulate the expression of macrophages microRNAs to subvert cell response for its survival and persistence. This review summarized the progress of microRNAs in mycobacterial pathogenesis.

Keywords: Apoptosis; Autophagy; Inflammatory; Macrophages; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; miRs.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Host-Pathogen Interactions / immunology
Humans
Macrophages / immunology*
Mice
MicroRNAs / immunology*
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / immunology*
Signal Transduction / immunology
Tuberculosis / immunology*

Substances

MicroRNAs