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Transcriptomic analysis to study interactions between murine host and fungal commensal Candida albicans upon its gastrointestinal colonization

GSE274260 Mus musculus (mouse) RNA-seq (gene expression) 30 samples Submitted 2025/07/01 Platform GPL21103
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · mouse · 30 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Mus musculus (mouse)
Samples
30 samples: 12 conditions, mostly in triplicateGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Summary (written by the submitters)
Candida albicans is a ubiquitous fungus in the human gut microbiome as well as a prevalent cause of opportunistic mucosal and systemic disease. There is currently little understanding, however, as to how crosstalk between C. albicans and the host regulates colonization of this key niche. Here, we performed expression profiling on ileal and colonic tissues in germ-free mice colonized with C.
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albicans to define the global response to this fungus. We reveal that Duox2 and Duoxa2, encoding dual NADPH oxidase activity, are upregulated in both the ileum and colon, and that induction requires the C. albicans yeast-hyphal transition and hyphal-specific toxin candidalysin. Hosts lacking the IL-17 receptor failed to upregulate Duox2/Duoxa2 in response to C. albicans, while addition of IL-17A to colonoids induced these genes together with the concomitant production of hydrogen peroxide. To directly define the role of Duox2/Duoxa2 in fungal colonization, antibiotic-treated mice lacking intestinal DUOX2 activity were evaluated for C. albicans colonization and host responses. Surprisingly, loss of DUOX2 function reduced fungal colonization at extended time points (>17 days colonization) and increased the proportion of hyphal cells in the gut. IL-17A levels were also elevated in C. albicans-colonized mice lacking functional DUOX2 highlighting cross-regulation between DUOX2 on this cytokine. Together, these experiments reveal novel links between fungal cells, candidalysin and the host IL-17-DUOX2 axis, and that a complex interplay between these factors regulates C. albicans filamentation and colonization in the gut.
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE274260_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1145473 and SRA study SRP524804. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
12 conditions, mostly in triplicate
7 days Ca colonized female colon ×3 7 days Ca colonized female ileum ×3 21 days Ca colonized female colon ×3 21 days Ca colonized female ileum ×3 Control female colon ×3 Control female ileum ×3 7 days Ca colonized male colon ×2 7 days Ca colonized male ileum ×2 +4 more

Supports a between-group comparison across 30 samples.

How we read this: 12 replicated groups read from 30 sample titles; they account for 30 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

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