title: Homogeneous Inflammatory Gene Profiles Induced in Human Dermal Fibroblasts in Response to the Three Main Species of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato.
abstract: In Lyme borreliosis, the skin is the key site for bacterial inoculation by the infected tick and for cutaneous manifestations. We previously showed that different strains of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto isolated from tick and from different clinical stages of the Lyme borreliosis (erythema migrans, and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans) elicited a very similar transcriptional response in normal human dermal fibroblasts. In this study, using whole transcriptome microarray chips, we aimed to compare the transcriptional response of normal human dermal fibroblasts stimulated by 3 Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains belonging to 3 main pathogenic species (B. afzelii, B. garinii and B. burgdorferi sensu stricto) in order to determine whether "species-related" inflammatory pathways could be identified. The three Borrelia strains tested exhibited similar transcriptional profiles, and no species-specific fingerprint of transcriptional changes in fibroblasts was observed. Conversely, a common core of chemokines/cytokines (CCL2, CXCL1, CXCL2, CXCL6, CXCL10, IL-6, IL-8) and interferon-related genes was stimulated by all the 3 strains. Dermal fibroblasts appear to play a key role in the cutaneous infection with Borrelia, inducing a homogeneous inflammatory response, whichever Borrelia species was involved.
authors.affiliation: EA7290 Early Bacterial Virulence: Lyme borreliosis Group, FMTS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Mariam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meddeb
authors.affiliation: Plate-forme Post-Génomique P3S, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Faculty of Medicine, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Wassila
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Carpentier
authors.affiliation: Plateforme Bio-informatique, Université Paris Descartes, Structure Fédérative de Recherche Necker, INSERM US24/CNRS UMS 3633, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cagnard
authors.affiliation: INSERM UMR 1166, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris 06, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nadaud
authors.affiliation: EA7290 Early Bacterial Virulence: Lyme borreliosis Group, FMTS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grillon
authors.affiliation: EA7290 Early Bacterial Virulence: Lyme borreliosis Group, FMTS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Cathy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barthel
authors.affiliation: EA7290 Early Bacterial Virulence: Lyme borreliosis Group, FMTS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.|French National Reference Center for Borrelia, University Hospital, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Sylvie Josiane
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: De Martino
authors.affiliation: EA7290 Early Bacterial Virulence: Lyme borreliosis Group, FMTS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.|French National Reference Center for Borrelia, University Hospital, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Benoît
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jaulhac
authors.affiliation: EA7290 Early Bacterial Virulence: Lyme borreliosis Group, FMTS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.|French National Reference Center for Borrelia, University Hospital, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Boulanger
authors.affiliation: EA7290 Early Bacterial Virulence: Lyme borreliosis Group, FMTS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6889-515X
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schramm
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D025065:Borrelia burgdorferi / Q000145:classification* / Q000276:immunology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D016207:Cytokines / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000382:microbiology; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012867:Skin / Q000166:cytology / Q000382:microbiology; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines