The present invention belongs to the technical field of diagnosis and treatment of ophthalmic diseases, and in particular relates to a method for building an eye disease model, and application of the eye disease model obtained by the method and a model carrier in eye disease research and drug screening.
Inherited retinal degeneration (IRD) is a group of inherited diseases that are the most common cause of reduced vision in labor populations in industrialized countries. Inherited retinal degeneration (IRD) is a group of inherited diseases characterized by progressive loss of photoreceptor cells, including Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), retinitis pigmentosa (RP), early-onset rod-cone dystrophy, rod-rod dystrophy, congenital stationary night blindness and color blindness, and Stargardt's disease (Broadgate et al., 2017). It is the most common cause of vision loss in working populations in industrialized countries, with an estimated incidence of 1:2000 (Kutluer et al., 2020). Due to genetic and clinical heterogeneity, treatment of IRDs requires highly personalized therapeutic strategies. Although neuroprotection, gene therapy and cell replacement therapy are proposed methods for treatment of IRD at different stages, so far, only one gene therapy (Luxturna) that corrects mutations in an RPE65 gene is approved by FDA for treatment of LCA (Botto et al., 2021; Ikelle et al., 2020; Kutluer et al., 2020).
More than 200 genes are related to IRD. A CRB1 gene has long been recognized as an important gene, and its mutations result in a variety of ophthalmic phenotypes, including LCA and RP (Ehrenberg et al., 2013). CRB1, as a key regulatory factor of adhesion molecule connectivity, plays an important role in establishing cell polarity and maintaining eye barrier integrity. The frequency of CRB1 mutations caused by IRD varies greatly worldwide. For example, the allele frequency of CRB1 mutations found in LCA cases is 6.7% in the United States, 1.7% in Canada, 0% in the Netherlands, 16.7% in Spain, and 11.5% in China (Li et al., 2011; Vallespin et al., 2007; Zernant et al., 2005), while CRB1 is a gene with the highest mutation frequency found in all LCA, early-onset RP, and non-early-onset RP patients in Spain (Vallespin et al., 2007). On the whole, CRB1 gene mutations account for 4% of RP and 10-15% of LCA worldwide (Richard et al., 2006). Thus, there is an urgent need for a treatment method to rescue CRB1-related vision loss.
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for building an eye disease model or an eye disease model carrier, in particular a method for building a retinal degeneration model or a model carrier, and a model or a model carrier built by the method, as well as application of the method, the disease model and/or the disease model carrier in eye disease reaseach and related drug screening.
The object of the present invention is achieved by the following technical solutions:
the present invention provides a method for building an eye disease model, including infecting the eye disease model with a microorganism.
Preferably, the infecting includes direct contact with the microorganism or indirect contact with the microorganism. In one specific embodiment, an eye disease model in which an eye is infected with a microorganism is obtained by raising a non-human animal in a specific pathogen-free (SPF) environment.
Preferably, the microorganism is derived from intestinal bacteria of the same individual or is the same as the intestinal bacteria of the individual.
Preferably, the eye disease includes retinal degeneration; more preferably, the retinal degeneration is progressive retinal degeneration.
Preferably, the retinal degeneration is inherited retinal degeneration (IRD).
Preferably, the eye disease includes LCA, RP, arRP, EORD, EORP, PPRPE, rettelangiectasia and/or choroideremia like fundus.
Preferably, the eye disease includes ocular inflammation, e.g., uveitis, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), vitritis, choroiditis, retinitis, retinal vasculitis, optic neuritis, as well as uveitis, Behcet's disease, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, uveitis, retinopathy, sympathetic ophthalmia, cataract, conjunctivitis, glaucoma, and the like.
Preferably, the model is a non-human animal, preferably a monkey, a dog, a chimpanzee, a rat, and a mouse.
Preferably, the model carrier is a cell, a tissue or an organ, and the cell, the tissue or the organ is derived from a human or a non-human animal.
Preferably, the cell is a primary cell or a cell line.
Preferably, the tissue is an ocular tissue and the organ is an ocular organ.
Preferably, the tissue or the organ is a regenerative tissue or organ.
Preferably, the model has a disease-causing mutation in a gene.
Preferably, the gene with the disease-causing mutation is a gene related to maintaining a structure of a retinal barrier, the retinal barrier being an outer blood-retinal barrier and/or an inner blood-retinal barrier.
Preferably, a disease-causing mutation of an eye disease-related gene is present in the model or the model carrier, and the gene with the disease-causing mutation of an ocular gene is selected from one or a combination of two or more of of the following genes: ABCA4, ABCC6, ABCC9, ACBD5, ACO2, ACO2, ACTG1, ADGRV1, AHI1, AIPL1, ALMS1, AMY2B, APC, ARFGEF1, ARL13B, ARL13B, ARL6, ARMC9, ATOH7, B9D1, BAG3, BBS1, BBS1, BBS2, BBS5, BEST1, C2CD3, CA4, CABP4, CACNA1F, CBS, CC2D2A, CDH23, CDH23, CDHR1, CEMIP2, CEP104, CEP250, CEP290, CEP290, CEP41, CEP78, CERKL, CFAP410, CFAP418, CHM, CLCC1, CLCN7, CLN3, CLN5, CLN8, CLRN1, CLRN1, CNGA1, CNGA1, CNGA3, CNGB1, CNGB3, CNNM4, COL11A1, COL11A2, COL18A1, COL2A1, COL4A1, COL9A1, COL9A2, CP, CP, CPLANE1, CRB1, ERCC4, CSPP1, CTNNA1, CYP4V2, DHDDS, DYNC2H1, DYNC211, DYNC212, ENPP1, ERCC4, EVC2, EYS, EYS, F5, FAM161A, FBN1, FKRP, FKTN, FLG, FLVCR1, FOXE3, FUZ, GLB1, GMPPB, GNAT1, GRK1, GRM6, GUCA1A, GUCA1B, GUCY2D, HADHA, HGSNAT, HPS3, HPS5, IDH3B, IFT122, IFT140, IFT140, IFT43, IFT52, IFT74, IFT80, IFT80, IFT81, IFT88, IKBKG, IMPDH1, IMPG2, INPPSE, INTU, IQCB1, IQCE, IREB2, KCNJ13, KCNQ1, KCNV2, KIAA0586, KIAA0753, KIF7, KIZ, KIZ-AS1, KLHL7, KRIT1, LBR, LCA5, LOC101927157, LOC111365204, LRP2, LRP5, MAK, MAPKAPK3, MATK, MCOLN1, MERTK, MKS1, MPDZ, MT-ATP6, MT-CO3, MT-TE, MT-TL1, MTHFR, MUTYH, MYO7A, MYO7A, NMNAT1, NPHP1, NR2E3, OCA2, OTX2, PANK2, PAX6, PCARE, PCDH15, PDE6A, PDE6B, PDE6B, PDE6D, PEX1, PEX1, PEX12, PEX26, PEX6, PHF3, PITPNM3, PKD2, PLA2G5, POC5, POMT1, PRCD, PRDM13, PROM1, PRPF3, PRPF31, PRPF8, PRPH2, RAD51C, RBP3, RBP4, RD3, RDH12, RDH5, RGR, RGR, RHO, RIMS1, RLBP1, ROM1, RP1, RP1L1, RP2, RPE65, RPE65, RPGR, RPGRIP1, RPGRIP1L, RS1, SACS, SAG, SCAPER, SDCCAG8, SIX6, SLC19A1, SLC22A5, SLC26A4, SLC2A9, SLTM, SNRNP200, SPAG17, SPATA7, SPG11, TFAP2A, TGFB2, TGFBR2, TMEM107, TMEM237, TMEM67, TOGARAM1, TOPORS, TPP1, TRAF3IP1, TREX1, TRIM59-IFT80, TSPAN12, TTC21B, TTC21B, TTC8, TULP1, USH1C, USH2A, USH2A, USH2A, USH2A, USH2A-AS1, VAC14, VCAN, VCAN, VCAN-AS1, VHL, VPS13B, WDR19, WDR19, WDR35, WDR73, YARS1, ZFYVE26, ZFYVE26 and ZNF408.
In one specific embodiment, the eye disease-related gene with the disease-causing mutation in the model or the model carrier includes the CRB1 gene.
Preferably, a mutation of the CRB1 gene of the model or the model carrier includes one or two or more of the following mutations: c.107C>G, c.111delT, c.135C>G, c.257_258dupTG, c.258C>T, c.428_432delGATTC, c.430T>G, c.470G>C, c.481dupG, c.482C>T, c.584G>T, c.613_619del, c.717_718insG, c.750T>G, c.915T>A, c.929G>A, c.936T>G, c.998G>A, c.1084C>T, c.1125C>G, c.1148G>A, c.1208C>G, c.1269C>A, c.1298A>G, c.1313G>A, c.1438T>C, c.1438T>G, c.1576C>T, c.1604T>C, c.1690G>T, c.1733T>A, c.1750G>T, c.1760G>A, c.1834T>C, c.1963delC, c.2025G>T, c.2042G>A, c.2128G>C, c.2129C>T, c.2185_2186insAlu, c.2219C>T, c.2222T>C, c.2234C>T, c.2245_2247del 3bp (TCA), c.2258T>C, c.2290C>T, c.2365_2367del AAT, in frame deletion, c.2401A>T, c.2438_2439ins>100A, c.2441_2442del, c.2465G>A, c.2479G>T, c.2506C>A, c.2509G>C, c.2536G>A, c.2548_2551delGGCT, c.2548G>A, c.2555T>C, c.2611_2613insT, c.2671T>G, c.2676delG, c.2681A>G, c.2688T>A, c.2816G>A, c.2843G>A, c.2853dupT, c.2884_2886delTTA, c.2957A>T, c.2966T>C, c.2983G>T, c.3002A>T, c.3008T>C, c.3035T>C, c.3037C>T, c.3074G>A, c.3074G>T, c.3122T>C, c.3212T>C, c.3296C>A, c.3299T>C, c.3299T>G, c.3307G>A/C, c.3320T>C, c.3320T>G, c.3331G>T, c.3343_3352del, c.3347delT, c.3343_3352del, c.3347delT, c.3427delT, c.3482A>G, c.3493T>C, c.3655T>G, c.3541T>C, c.3542dupG, c.3593A>G, c.3613G>A, c.3653G>T, c.3659_3660delinsA, c.3664C>T, c.3668G>C, c.3676G>T, c.3713_3716dup, c.3879G>A, c.3914C>T, c.3949A>C, c.3961T>A, c.3988delG, c.3988G>T, c.3995G>T, c.3996C>A, c.3997G>T, c.4094C>A, c.4121_4130del, c.4142C>T, c.4148G>A, c.2128+2T>G, c.2842+5G>A, c.3878+1G>T, c.4005+1G>A, c.4005+2T>G, c.4006-2A>G, c.4006-1G>T, c.619G>A, c.614T>C, c.1472A>T, c.1903T>C, c.2809G>A, c.3103C>T, c.4082G>A, c.4060G>A, c.866C>T, c.1463T>C, c.2035C>G, c.2306_2307GC>AG, c.2306G>A, c.2714G>A, c.2875G>A and c.3992G>A.
Further preferably, the mutation of the CRB1 gene of the model or the model carrier includes one or two or more of the following mutations: c.4006-1G>T, c.3686G>C, (p.Cys1229Ser), c.2842+1delinsAA, c.4060G>A, (p.Ala1354Thr), c.3991C>T, (p.Arg1331Cys), c.3014A>T, (p.Asp1005Val), c.4005+1G>A, c.2680_2684del, (p.Asn894fs), c.1733T>A, (p.Val578Glu), c.455G>A, (p.Cys152Tyr), c.3462_3463del, (p.Cys1154_Glu1155delinsTer), c.3037C>T, (p.Gln1013Ter), c.2673C>A, (p.Cys891Ter), c.2230C>T, (p.Arg744Ter), c.3676G>T, (p.Glyl226Ter), c.2842+5G>A, c.2842T>C, (p.Cys948Arg), c.3988del, (p.Glu1330fs), c.2506C>A, (p.Pro836Thr), c.2291G>A, (p.Arg764His), c.1576C>T, (p.Arg526Ter), c.613_619del, (p.Ile205fs), c.3320T>C, (p.Leu1107Pro), c.2688T>A, (p.Cys896Ter), c.2555T>C, (p.Ile852Thr), c.2222T>C, (p.Met741Thr), c.1148G>A, (p.Cys383Tyr), c.2843G>A, (p.Cys948Tyr), c.4121_4130del, (p.Ala1374fs), c.3307G>A, (p.Glyl103Arg), c.484G>A, (p.Val162Met), c.2401A>T, (p.Lys801Ter), c.2234C>T, (p.Thr745Met), c.2290C>T, (p.Arg764Cys), c.3122T>C and (p.Met1041Thr).
Preferably, the mutation of the CRB1 gene of the model or the model carrier is an Rd8 mutation.
Preferably, the mutation is a homozygous mutation or a heterozygous mutation.
Preferably, the mutation of the gene as described above is innately present in vivo in the model or the model carrier or the mutation is acquired due to genetic recombination operations.
Preferably, a humanized CRB1 gene or a human CRB1 gene is present in vivo in the model or the model carrier, and its endogenous CRB1 gene is deleted or not expressed.
Preferably, the non-human animal has a colonic epithelial barrier defect and/or associated inflammation of a colonic wall.
In one specific embodiment, an Occludin protein is significantly deleted in vivo in the model. In one specific embodiment, the Occludin protein is significantly deleted and Claudin1 expression is not significant in vivo in the model.
The microorganism is one or a combination of two or more of bacteria, archeobacteria, protists, fungi, or viruses, preferably, the microorganism is the bacteria, and the bacteria are selected from: one or two or more of Anearostipes, Bifidobacterium, Megamonas, Nitrosomonas, Oscillibacter, Tatumella, Thiobacillus sp., Clostridium, Acinetobacter, Streptococcus, Mannheimia, Fibrobacter, Prevotella, Campylobacter, Actinomyces, Hymenobacter, Escherichia, Tissierella, Klebsiella, Porphyromonas, Azospira, Aquimarina, Achromobacter, Acidithiobacillus, Burkholderia, Marinobacter, Treponema, Actinosporangium, Vibrio, Ruminococcus, Methanobrevibacter, Shigella, Frankia, Streptomyces, Anaeroplasma, and Coprococcus.
Specifically, the bacteria are selected from: one or two or more of Anearostipes hadrus, Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum, Nitrosomonas sp.Is79A3, Oscillibacter valericigenes, Tatumella sp.TA1, Megamonas funiformis, Thiobacillus denitrificans, Clostridium tetani, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium botulinum, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Acinetobacter lwoffi, Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter haemolyticus, Acinetobacter junii, Acinetobacter johnsonii, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus haemolyticus, Fibrobacter succinogenes, intestinal Fibrobacter, Porphyromonas asacharolytica, Porphyromonas endodontalis, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, Campylobacter laridis, Campylobacter upsaliensis, Campylobacter concisus, Campylobacter fetus, Actinomyces israelii, Actinomyces naeslundii, Actinomyces odontolyticus, Actinomyces viscosus, Actinomyces neuii, Escherichia coli, Escherichia blattae, Escherichia fergusonii, Escherichia hermannii, Escherichia vulneris, Tissierella praeacuta, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella ozaenae, Azospirillum brasilense, Achromobacter, Thiobacillus denitrificans, Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, Thiobacillus thiooxidans, Thiobacillus neapolitanus, Burkholderia, Mycobacterium marinum, Treponema pallidum, Treponema hyodysenteriae, Vibrio metschnikovi, Ruminococcus albus, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, Methanobrevibacter ruminantium, Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii, Shigella sonnei, Frankia, Coprococcus eutactus, Streptomyces albus, Pseudomonas mendocina, Micrococcus sedentarius, alicycline denitrifying bacteria, Achromobacter xylosoxidans, Sphingomonas, Mycobacterium abscessus, Arthrobacter aurescens, Prevotella, Sinorhizobium meliloti, acidic yeast, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Pseudomonas putida, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus megaterium, Lactobacillus reuteri, Haemophilus vaginalis, bee Enterococcus faecium, Cytophaga hutchinsonii, Bacillus licheniformis, Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oyzae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Comamonas testosteroni, Mycobacterium kansasii, Bacillus thuringiensis, Citrobacter koseri, Dyadobacter fermentans, Serratia marcescens, Sphingomonas wittichii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Ralstonia pickettii, Lactobacillus crispatus, Burkholderia, Lactobacillus delbrueckii, Meiothermus silvanus (D), Escherichia coli, Micrococcus luteus, Bacillus subtilis, Corynebacterium aurimucosum, and Finegoldia magna.
Preferably, a method of the infecting includes contacting the microorganism with a to-be-infected site of the model carrier directly or indirectly, wherein the indirect contact means that a blood-retinal barrier is present between the microorganism and the to-be-infected site, preferably the blood-retinal barrier is an outer blood-retinal barrier or an inner blood-retinal barrier.
In one specific embodiment, the method of the infecting includes causing intestinal bacteria to infect eyes via peripheral blood. Specifically, an intestinal epithelial barrier of a non-human animal model is significantly damaged, causing intestinal bacteria to enter the peripheral blood. In one model, the retinal barrier is also significantly damaged such that intestinal bacteria enter the peripheral blood to infect a retina; in one specific embodiment, the non-human animal model has a mutation in the CRB1 gene; and in one specific embodiment, the mutation of the CRB1 gene is an Rd8 mutation.
Further, the present invention provides a method for preparing an ocular inflammation model, including infecting a non-human animal with a microorganism.
Preferably, the ocular inflammation is caused by an intestinal flora or the same flora as the intestinal flora.
The non-human animal is the animal as described above.
The microorganism is the microorganism as described above.
Further, the present invention provides a method for preparing a retinal degenerative disease model, including infecting a non-human animal suffering from retinal degeneration with a microorganism.
Preferably, the retinal degenerative disease is the retinal degeneration as described above.
The non-human animal is the animal as described above.
The microorganism is the microorganism as described above.
Further, the present invention provides a model carrier having ocular inflammation caused by infection with a microorganism.
Preferably, the microorganism is derived from intestinal bacteria of the same individual or is the same as the intestinal bacteria of the individual.
Preferably, the eye disease includes retinal degeneration; more preferably, the retinal degeneration is progressive retinal degeneration.
Preferably, the retinal degeneration is inherited retinal degeneration (IRD).
Preferably, the retinal degeneration is a disease of a model animal itself or is caused by genetic manipulation in the model animal.
Preferably, the eye disease includes LCA, RP, arRP, EORD, EORP, PPRPE, rettelangiectasia and/or choroideremia like fundus.
Preferably, the eye disease includes ocular inflammation, e.g., uveitis, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), vitritis, choroiditis, retinitis, retinal vasculitis, optic neuritis, as well as uveitis, Behcet's disease, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, uveitis, retinopathy, sympathetic ophthalmia, cataract, conjunctivitis, glaucoma, and the like.
Preferably, the model is a non-human animal, preferably a monkey, a dog, a chimpanzee, a rat, and a mouse.
Preferably, the model carrier is a cell, a tissue or an organ, and the cell, the tissue or the organ is derived from a human or a non-human animal.
Preferably, the cell is a primary cell or a cell line.
Preferably, the tissue is an ocular tissue and the organ is an ocular organ.
Preferably, the tissue or the organ is a regenerative tissue or organ.
Preferably, the model has a disease-causing mutation in a gene.
Preferably, the gene with the disease-causing mutation is a gene related to maintaining a structure of a retinal barrier, the retinal barrier being an outer blood-retinal barrier and/or an inner blood-retinal barrier.
Preferably, one or two or more of the following genes in the model carrier are mutated: one or a combination of two or more of ABCA4, ABCC6, ABCC9, ACBD5, ACO2, ACO2, ACTG1, ADGRV1, AHI1, AIPL1, ALMS1, AMY2B, APC, ARFGEF1, ARL13B, ARL13B, ARL6, ARMC9, ATOH7, B9D1, BAG3, BBS1, BBS1, BBS2, BBS5, BEST1, C2CD3, CA4, CABP4, CACNA1F, CBS, CC2D2A, CDH23, CDH23, CDHR1, CEMIP2, CEP104, CEP250, CEP290, CEP290, CEP41, CEP78, CERKL, CFAP410, CFAP418, CHM, CLCC1, CLCN7, CLN3, CLN5, CLN8, CLRN1, CLRN1, CNGA1, CNGA1, CNGA3, CNGB1, CNGB3, CNNM4, COL11A1, COL11A2, COL18A1, COL2A1, COL4A1, COL9A1, COL9A2, CP, CP, CPLANE1, CRB1, ERCC4, CSPP1, CTNNA1, CYP4V2, DHDDS, DYNC2H1, DYNC211, DYNC212, ENPP1, ERCC4, EVC2, EYS, EYS, F5, FAM161A, FBN1, FKRP, FKTN, FLG, FLVCR1, FOXE3, FUZ, GLB1, GMPPB, GNAT1, GRK1, GRM6, GUCA1A, GUCA1B, GUCY2D, HADHA, HGSNAT, HPS3, HPS5, IDH3B, IFT122, IFT140, IFT140, IFT43, IFT52, IFT74, IFT80, IFT80, IFT81, IFT88, IKBKG, IMPDH1, IMPG2, INPP5E, INTU, IQCB1, IQCE, IREB2, KCNJ13, KCNQ1, KCNV2, KIAA0586, KIAA0753, KIF7, KIZ, KIZ-AS1, KLHL7, KRIT1, LBR, LCA5, LOC101927157, LOC111365204, LRP2, LRP5, MAK, MAPKAPK3, MATK, MCOLN1, MERTK, MKS1, MPDZ, MT-ATP6, MT-CO3, MT-TE, MT-TL1, MTHFR, MUTYH, MYO7A, MYO7A, NMNAT1, NPHP1, NR2E3, OCA2, OTX2, PANK2, PAX6, PCARE, PCDH15, PDE6A, PDE6B, PDE6B, PDE6D, PEX1, PEX1, PEX12, PEX26, PEX6, PHF3, PITPNM3, PKD2, PLA2G5, POC5, POMT1, PRCD, PRDM13, PROM1, PRPF3, PRPF31, PRPF8, PRPH2, RAD51C, RBP3, RBP4, RD3, RDH12, RDH5, RGR, RGR, RHO, RIMS1, RLBP1, ROM1, RP1, RP1L1, RP2, RPE65, RPE65, RPGR, RPGRIP1, RPGRIP1L, RS1, SACS, SAG, SCAPER, SDCCAG8, SIX6, SLC19A1, SLC22A5, SLC26A4, SLC2A9, SLTM, SNRNP200, SPAG17, SPATA7, SPG11, TFAP2A, TGFB2, TGFBR2, TMEM107, TMEM237, TMEM67, TOGARAM1, TOPORS, TPP1, TRAF3IP1, TREX1, TRIM59-IFT80, TSPAN12, TTC21B, TTC21B, TTC8, TULP1, USH1C, USH2A, USH2A, USH2A, USH2A, USH2A-AS1, VAC14, VCAN, VCAN, VCAN-AS1, VHL, VPS13B, WDR19, WDR19, WDR35, WDR73, YARS1, ZFYVE26, ZFYVE26 and ZNF408.
In one specific embodiment, an eye disease-related gene with a disease-causing mutation in the model carrier includes the CRB1 gene.
Preferably, a mutation of the CRB1 gene of the model carrier includes one or two or more of the following mutations: c.107C>G, c.111delT, c.135C>G, c.257_258dupTG, c.258C>T, c.428_432delGATTC, c.430T>G, c.470G>C, c.481dupG, c.482C>T, c.584G>T, c.613_619del, c.717_718insG, c.750T>G, c.915T>A, c.929G>A, c.936T>G, c.998G>A, c.1084C>T, c.1125C>G, c.1148G>A, c.1208C>G, c.1269C>A, c.1298A>G, c.1313G>A, c.1438T>C, c.1438T>G, c.1576C>T, c.1604T>C, c.1690G>T, c.1733T>A, c.1750G>T, c.1760G>A, c.1834T>C, c.1963delC, c.2025G>T, c.2042G>A, c.2128G>C, c.2129C>T, c.2185_2186insAlu, c.2219C>T, c.2222T>C, c.2234C>T, c.2245_2247del 3bp (TCA), c.2258T>C, c.2290C>T, c.2365_2367del AAT, in frame deletion, c.2401A>T, c.2438_2439ins>100A, c.2441_2442del, c.2465G>A, c.2479G>T, c.2506C>A, c.2509G>C, c.2536G>A, c.2548_2551delGGCT, c.2548G>A, c.2555T>C, c.2611_2613insT, c.2671T>G, c.2676delG, c.2681A>G, c.2688T>A, c.2816G>A, c.2843G>A, c.2853dupT, c.2884_2886delTTA, c.2957A>T, c.2966T>C, c.2983G>T, c.3002A>T, c.3008T>C, c.3035T>C, c.3037C>T, c.3074G>A, c.3074G>T, c.3122T>C, c.3212T>C, c.3296C>A, c.3299T>C, c.3299T>G, c.3307G>A/C, c.3320T>C, c.3320T>G, c.3331G>T, c.3343_3352del, c.3347delT, c.3343_3352del, c.3347delT, c.3427delT, c.3482A>G, c.3493T>C, c.3655T>G, c.3541T>C, c.3542dupG, c.3593A>G, c.3613G>A, c.3653G>T, c.3659_3660delinsA, c.3664C>T, c.3668G>C, c.3676G>T, c.3713_3716dup, c.3879G>A, c.3914C>T, c.3949A>C, c.3961T>A, c.3988delG, c.3988G>T, c.3995G>T, c.3996C>A, c.3997G>T, c.4094C>A, c.4121_4130del, c.4142C>T, c.4148G>A, c.2128+2T>G, c.2842+5G>A, c.3878+1G>T, c.4005+1G>A, c.4005+2T>G, c.4006-2A>G, c.4006-1G>T, c.619G>A, c.614T>C, c.1472A>T, c.1903T>C, c.2809G>A, c.3103C>T, c.4082G>A, c.4060G>A, c.866C>T, c.1463T>C, c.2035C>G, c.2306_2307GC>AG, c.2306G>A, c.2714G>A, c.2875G>A and c.3992G>A.
Further preferably, the mutation of the CRB1 gene of the model or the model carrier includes one or two or more of the following mutations: c.4006-1G>T, c.3686G>C, (p.Cys1229Ser), c.2842+1delinsAA, c.4060G>A, (p.Ala1354Thr), c.3991C>T, (p.Arg1331Cys), c.3014A>T, (p.Asp1005Val), c.4005+1G>A, c.2680_2684del, (p.Asn894fs), c.1733T>A, (p. Val578Glu), c.455G>A, (p.Cys152Tyr), c.3462_3463del, (p.Cys1154_Glu1155delinsTer), c.3037C>T, (p.Gln1013Ter), c.2673C>A, (p.Cys891Ter), c.2230C>T, (p.Arg744Ter), c.3676G>T, (p.Glyl226Ter), c.2842+5G>A, c.2842T>C, (p.Cys948Arg), c.3988del, (p.Glu1330fs), c.2506C>A, (p.Pro836Thr), c.2291G>A, (p.Arg764His), c.1576C>T, (p.Arg526Ter), c.613_619del, (p.Ile205fs), c.3320T>C, (p.Leu1107Pro), c.2688T>A, (p.Cys896Ter), c.2555T>C, (p.Ile852Thr), c.2222T>C, (p.Met741Thr), c.1148G>A, (p.Cys383Tyr), c.2843G>A, (p.Cys948Tyr), c.4121_4130del, (p.Ala1374fs), c.3307G>A, (p.Glyl103Arg), c.484G>A, (p.Val162Met), c.2401A>T, (p.Lys801Ter), c.2234C>T, (p.Thr745Met), c.2290C>T, (p.Arg764Cys), c.3122T>C and (p.Met1041Thr).
Preferably, the mutation of the CRB1 gene of the model carrier is an Rd8 mutation.
Preferably, the mutation is a homozygous mutation or a heterozygous mutation.
Preferably, the mutation of the gene as described above is innately present in vivo in the model carrier or the mutation is acquired due to genetic recombination operations.
Preferably, a humanized CRB1 gene or a human CRB1 gene is present in vivo in the model carrier, and its endogenous CRB1 gene is deleted or not expressed.
Preferably, the non-human animal has a colonic epithelial barrier defect and/or associated inflammation of a colonic wall.
In one specific embodiment, an Occludin protein is significantly deleted in vivo in the model. In one specific embodiment, the Occludin protein is significantly deleted and Claudin1 expression is not significant in vivo in the model.
The microorganism is one or a combination of two or more of bacteria, archeobacteria, protists, fungi, or viruses, preferably, the microorganism is the bacteria, and the bacteria are selected from: one or two or more of Anearostipes, Bifidobacterium, Megamonas, Nitrosomonas, Oscillibacter, Tatumella, Thiobacillus sp., Clostridium, Acinetobacter, Streptococcus, Mannheimia, Fibrobacter, Prevotella, Campylobacter, Actinomyces, Hymenobacter, Escherichia, Tissierella, Klebsiella, Porphyromonas, Azospira, Aquimarina, Achromobacter, Acidithiobacillus, Burkholderia, Marinobacter, Treponema, Actinosporangium, Vibrio, Ruminococcus, Methanobrevibacter, Shigella, Frankia, Streptomyces, Anaeroplasma, and Coprococcus.
Specifically, the bacteria are selected from: one or two or more of Anearostipes hadrus, Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum, Nitrosomonas sp.Is79A3, Oscillibacter valericigenes, Tatumella sp.TA1, Megamonas funiformis, Thiobacillus denitrificans, Clostridium tetani, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium botulinum, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Acinetobacter lwoffi, Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter haemolyticus, Acinetobacter junii, Acinetobacter johnsonii, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus haemolyticus, Fibrobacter succinogenes, intestinal Fibrobacter, Porphyromonas asacharolytica, Porphyromonas endodontalis, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, Campylobacter laridis, Campylobacter upsaliensis, Campylobacter concisus, Campylobacter fetus, Actinomyces israelii, Actinomyces naeslundii, Actinomyces odontolyticus, Actinomyces viscosus, Actinomyces neuii, Escherichia coli, Escherichia blattae, Escherichia fergusonii, Escherichia hermannii, Escherichia vulneris, Tissierella praeacuta, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella ozaenae, Azospirillum brasilense, Achromobacter, Thiobacillus denitrificans, Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, Thiobacillus thiooxidans, Thiobacillus neapolitanus, Burkholderia, Mycobacterium marinum, Treponema pallidum, Treponema hyodysenteriae, Vibrio metschnikovi, Ruminococcus albus, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, Methanobrevibacter ruminantium, Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii, Shigella sonnei, Frankia, Coprococcus eutactus, Streptomyces albus, Pseudomonas mendocina, Micrococcus sedentarius, alicycline denitrifying bacteria, Achromobacter xylosoxidans, Sphingomonas, Mycobacterium abscessus, Arthrobacter aurescens, Prevotella, Sinorhizobium meliloti, acidic yeast, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Pseudomonas putida, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus megaterium, Lactobacillus reuteri, Haemophilus vaginalis, bee Enterococcus faecium, Cytophaga hutchinsonii, Bacillus licheniformis, Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oyzae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Comamonas testosteroni, Mycobacterium kansasii, Bacillus thuringiensis, Citrobacter koseri, Dyadobacter fermentans, Serratia marcescens, Sphingomonas wittichii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Ralstonia pickettii, Lactobacillus crispatus, Burkholderia, Lactobacillus delbrueckii, Meiothermus silvanus (D), Escherichia coli, Micrococcus luteus, Bacillus subtilis, Corynebacterium aurimucosum, and Finegoldia magna.
Preferably, a method of the infecting includes contacting the microorganism with a to-be-infected site of the model carrier directly or indirectly, wherein the indirect contact means that a blood-retinal barrier is present between the microorganism and the to-be-infected site, preferably the blood-retinal barrier is an outer blood-retinal barrier or an inner blood-retinal barrier.
In one specific embodiment, the method of the infecting includes causing intestinal bacteria to infect eyes via peripheral blood. Specifically, an intestinal epithelial barrier of a non-human animal model is significantly damaged, causing intestinal bacteria to enter the peripheral blood. In one model, the retinal barrier is also significantly damaged such that intestinal bacteria enter the peripheral blood to infect a retina; in one specific embodiment, the non-human animal model has a mutation in the CRB1 gene; and in one specific embodiment, the mutation of the CRB1 gene is an Rd8 mutation.
The model carrier having inflammation is derived from a disease model prepared by the method as described above, or is obtained by infecting an ocular cell, tissue or organ derived from the non-human animal as described above with a microorganism.
The present invention provides application of the method as described above in evaluating the efficacy of targeted treatment of an eye disease, the eye disease including the eye disease as described above.
In one specific embodiment, targeted treatment for the gene mutations as described above is performed on the model or the model carrier, the model or the model carrier after targeted treatment and without targeted treatment is divided into two groups, and eye disease models are respectively built according to the method as described above. If, in contrast, the group after targeted treatment cannot be successfully modeled, it is indicated that the targeted treatment has achieved beneficial effects.
In one specific embodiment, the targeted treatment targets one or a combination of two or more of the following genes: ABCA4, ABCC6, ABCC9, ACBD5, ACO2, ACO2, ACTG1, ADGRV1, AHI1, AIPL1, ALMS1, AMY2B, APC, ARFGEF1, ARL13B, ARL13B, ARL6, ARMC9, ATOH7, B9D1, BAG3, BBS1, BBS1, BBS2, BBS5, BEST1, C2CD3, CA4, CABP4, CACNA1F, CBS, CC2D2A, CDH23, CDH23, CDHR1, CEMIP2, CEP104, CEP250, CEP290, CEP290, CEP41, CEP78, CERKL, CFAP410, CFAP418, CHM, CLCC1, CLCN7, CLN3, CLN5, CLN8, CLRN1, CLRN1, CNGA1, CNGA1, CNGA3, CNGB1, CNGB3, CNNM4, COL11A1, COL11A2, COL18A1, COL2A1, COL4A1, COL9A1, COL9A2, CP, CP, CPLANE1, CRB1, ERCC4, CSPP1, CTNNA1, CYP4V2, DHDDS, DYNC2H1, DYNC211, DYNC212, ENPP1, ERCC4, EVC2, EYS, EYS, F5, FAM161A, FBN1, FKRP, FKTN, FLG, FLVCR1, FOXE3, FUZ, GLB1, GMPPB, GNAT1, GRK1, GRM6, GUCA1A, GUCA1B, GUCY2D, HADHA, HGSNAT, HPS3, HPS5, IDH3B, IFT122, IFT140, IFT140, IFT43, IFT52, IFT74, IFT80, IFT80, IFT81, IFT88, IKBKG, IMPDH1, IMPG2, INPP5E, INTU, IQCB1, IQCE, IREB2, KCNJ13, KCNQ1, KCNV2, KIAA0586, KIAA0753, KIF7, KIZ, KIZ-AS1, KLHL7, KRIT1, LBR, LCA5, LOC101927157, LOC111365204, LRP2, LRP5, MAK, MAPKAPK3, MATK, MCOLN1, MERTK, MKS1, MPDZ, MT-ATP6, MT-CO3, MT-TE, MT-TL1, MTHFR, MUTYH, MYO7A, MYO7A, NMNAT1, NPHP1, NR2E3, OCA2, OTX2, PANK2, PAX6, PCARE, PCDH15, PDE6A, PDE6B, PDE6B, PDE6D, PEX1, PEX1, PEX12, PEX26, PEX6, PHF3, PITPNM3, PKD2, PLA2G5, POC5, POMT1, PRCD, PRDM13, PROM1, PRPF3, PRPF31, PRPF8, PRPH2, RAD51C, RBP3, RBP4, RD3, RDH12, RDH5, RGR, RGR, RHO, RIMS1, RLBP1, ROM1, RP1, RP1L1, RP2, RPE65, RPE65, RPGR, RPGRIP1, RPGRIP1L, RS1, SACS, SAG, SCAPER, SDCCAG8, SIX6, SLC19A1, SLC22A5, SLC26A4, SLC2A9, SLTM, SNRNP200, SPAG17, SPATA7, SPG11, TFAP2A, TGFB2, TGFBR2, TMEM107, TMEM237, TMEM67, TOGARAM1, TOPORS, TPP1, TRAF3IP1, TREX1, TRIM59-IFT80, TSPAN12, TTC21B, TTC21B, TTC8, TULP1, USH1C, USH2A, USH2A, USH2A, USH2A, USH2A-AS1, VAC14, VCAN, VCAN, VCAN-AS1, VHL, VPS13B, WDR19, WDR19, WDR35, WDR73, YARS1, ZFYVE26, ZFYVE26 and ZNF408.
In one specific embodiment, the targeted treatment targets one or two or more of the following mutations of the CRB1 gene: c.257_258dupTG, c.258C>T, c.428_432delGATTC, c.430T>G, c.470G>C, c.481dupG, c.482C>T, c.584G>T, c.613_619del, c.717_718insG, c.750T>G, c.915T>A, c.929G>A, c.936T>G, c.998G>A, c.1084C>T, c.1125C>G, c.1148G>A, c.1208C>G, c.1269C>A, c.1298A>G, c.1313G>A, c.1438T>C, c.1438T>G, c.1576C>T, c.1604T>C, c.1690G>T, c.1733T>A, c.1750G>T, c.1760G>A, c.1834T>C, c.1963delC, c.2025G>T, c.2042G>A, c.2128G>C, c.2129C>T, c.2185_2186insAlu, c.2219C>T, c.2222T>C, c.2234C>T, c.2245_2247del 3bp (TCA), c.2258T>C, c.2290C>T, c.2365_2367del AAT, in frame deletion, c.2401A>T, c.2438_2439ins>100A, c.2441_2442del, c.2465G>A, c.2479G>T, c.2506C>A, c.2509G>C, c.2536G>A, c.2548_2551delGGCT, c.2548G>A, c.2555T>C, c.2611_2613insT, c.2671T>G, c.2676delG, c.2681A>G, c.2688T>A, c.2816G>A, c.2843G>A, c.2853dupT, c.2884_2886delTTA, c.2957A>T, c.2966T>C, c.2983G>T, c.3002A>T, c.3008T>C, c.3035T>C, c.3037C>T, c.3074G>A, c.3074G>T, c.3122T>C, c.3212T>C, c.3296C>A, c.3299T>C, c.3299T>G, c.3307G>A/C, c.3320T>C, c.3320T>G, c.3331G>T, c.3343_3352del, c.3347delT, c.3343_3352del, c.3347delT, c.3427delT, c.3482A>G, c.3493T>C, c.3655T>G, c.3541T>C, c.3542dupG, c.3593A>G, c.3613G>A, c.3653G>T, c.3659_3660delinsA, c.3664C>T, c.3668G>C, c.3676G>T, c.3713_3716dup, c.3879G>A, c.3914C>T, c.3949A>C, c.3961T>A, c.3988delG, c.3988G>T, c.3995G>T, c.3996C>A, c.3997G>T, c.4094C>A, c.4121_4130del, c.4142C>T, c.4148G>A, c.2128+2T>G, c.2842+5G>A, c.3878+1G>T, c.4005+1G>A, c.4005+2T>G, c.4006-2A>G, c.4006-1G>T, c.619G>A, c.614T>C, c.1472A>T, c.1903T>C, c.2809G>A, c.3103C>T, c.4082G>A, c.4060G>A, c.866C>T, c.1463T>C, c.2035C>G, c.2306_2307GC>AG, c.2306G>A, c.2714G>A, c.2875G>A and c.3992G>A.
In one specific embodiment, a drug for the targeted treatment includes modified cells, modified proteins, RNA targeting the genes as described above or targeting sites of the mutations as described above, and/or DNA targeting the genes as described above or targeting sites of the mutations as described above.
The present invention provides application of a disease model prepared by the method as described above in research related to an eye disease. The eye disease includes the eye disease as described above. The research includes interaction between diseases related to inherited retinal degeneration and an intestinal flora, etc.
In one specific embodiment, the disease model is infected with one intestinal bacterium, the efficacy of administration and non-administration is observed when a disease-causing mutation carried by the disease model is treated by cells, and a drug is a small molecule drug, preferably a broad-spectrum antibiotic or an antibiotic against the infected bacterium. In one specific embodiment, the disease model is infected with one intestinal bacterium, the efficacy of administration and non-administration is observed when a disease-causing mutation carried by the disease model is treated by RNA, and the drug is a small molecule drug, preferably a broad-spectrum antibiotic or an antibiotic against the infected bacterium. In one specific embodiment, the disease model is infected with two or more intestinal bacteria, the efficacy of administration and non-administration is observed when a disease-causing mutation carried by the disease model is treated by cells, and the drug is a small molecule drug, preferably a broad-spectrum antibiotic or an antibiotic against the infected bacteria. In one specific embodiment, the disease model is infected with two intestinal bacteria, the efficacy of administration and non-administration is observed when a disease-causing mutation carried by the disease model is treated by RNA, and the drug is a small molecule drug, preferably a broad-spectrum antibiotic or an antibiotic against the infected bacteria.
Preferably, the disease-causing mutation occurs in the genes as described above, or the disease-causing mutation is a mutation in the CRB1 gene as described above.
The present invention provides application of a disease model carrier prepared by the method as described above in research related to an eye disease. The eye disease includes the eye disease as described above. The research includes synergy between diseases related to inherited retinal degeneration and an intestinal flora, etc.
In one specific embodiment, the disease model carrier is infected with one intestinal bacterium, the efficacy of administration and non-administration is observed when a disease-causing mutation carried by the disease model carrier is treated by cells, and a drug is a small molecule drug, preferably a broad-spectrum antibiotic or an antibiotic against the infected bacterium. In one specific embodiment, the disease model carrier is infected with one intestinal bacterium, the efficacy of administration and non-administration is observed when a disease-causing mutation carried by the disease model carrier is treated by RNA, and the drug is a small molecule drug, preferably a broad-spectrum antibiotic or an antibiotic against the infected bacterium. In one specific embodiment, the disease model carrier is infected with two or more intestinal bacteria, the efficacy of administration and non-administration is observed when a disease-causing mutation carried by the disease model carrier is treated by cells, and the drug is a small molecule drug, preferably a broad-spectrum antibiotic or an antibiotic against the infected bacteria. In one specific embodiment, the disease model carrier is infected with two intestinal bacteria, the efficacy of administration and non-administration is observed when a disease-causing mutation carried by the disease model carrier is treated by RNA, and the drug is a small molecule drug, preferably a broad-spectrum antibiotic or an antibiotic against the infected bacteria.
Preferably, the disease-causing mutation occurs in the genes as described above, or the disease-causing mutation is a mutation in the CRB1 gene as described above.
The present invention provides application of the disease model or the disease model carrier in screening a drug related to an eye disease. The drug includes one or a combination of two or more of a small molecule drug, a chemical drug, a high molecular drug, a biological drug or a natural drug (e.g., a traditional Chinese medicine or a traditional Chinese medicine extract), a cellular drug, an RNA drug, and a DNA drug.
The eye disease includes the eye disease as described above.
Preferably, a small molecule compound is an antibiotic, and the antibiotic is a broad-spectrum antibiotic drug generally well known to those skilled in the art.
Preferably, the small molecule compound is a non-broad-spectrum antibiotic targeted to specific bacteria.
Preferably, the cells include one or a combination of two or more of modified immune cells, such as T cells, B cells or stem cells.
Preferably, the RNA includes mRNA, siRNA, sgRNA, miRNA, ASO and/or a replicon RNA.
In one specific embodiment, targeted treatment is performed on the disease model or the disease model carrier, a drug is administered or not administered simultaneously to the disease model or the disease model carrier with targeted treatment and the disease model or the disease model carrier without targeted treatment, the progression of inflammation in the groups is observed, and the efficacy of the drug for targeted treatment is evaluated.
In one specific embodiment, targeted treatment is performed on the disease model or the disease model carrier, a drug is administered or not administered simultaneously to the disease model or the disease model carrier with targeted treatment and the disease model or the disease model carrier without targeted treatment, the progression of inflammation in the groups is observed, and the efficacy of the small molecule drug is evaluated.
The chemical drug according to the present invention is selected from one or two or more of β-lactam antibiotics: including penicillins, cephalosporins, thienamycins, monobactams, β-lactamase inhibitors, methoxypenicillins and the like; aminoglycoside antibiotics: including streptomycin, gentamicin, kanamycin, tobramycin, amikacin, neomycin, ribostamycin, micronomycin, astromicin and the like; tetracycline antibiotics: including tetracycline, oxytetracycline, chlortetracycline and doxycycline, and the like; chloramphenicol antibiotics: including chloramphenicol, thiamphenicol and the like; macrolide antibiotics: including erythromycin, leucomycin, erythromycin estolate, acetylspiramycin, midecamycin, josamycin, azithromycin, and the like; glycopeptide antibiotics: vancomycin, norvancomycin, teicoplanin and the like; quinolone antibiotics: including norfloxacin, ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, pefloxacin, and gatifloxacin; nitroimidazole antibiotics: including metronidazole, tinidazole, ornidazole, and the like; rifamycin antibiotics: including rifampicin and the like; echinocandin antibiotics; polyene antibiotics; pyrimidine antibiotics; allylamine antibiotics; azole antibiotics; and other antibiotics: fosfomycin, capreomycin, cycloserine, lincomycin, clindamycin, mitomycin, dactinomycin, bleomycin, doxorubicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, cyclosporine and the like.
The biological drug according to the present invention is an antimicrobial peptide selected from one or two or more of insect antimicrobial peptides, e.g., lepidopteran antimicrobial peptides, Dipteran antimicrobial peptides, Coleopteran antimicrobial peptides, Odonata antimicrobial peptides, Hymenopteran antimicrobial peptides, moricin, and the like; mammalian antimicrobial peptides, e.g., porcine antimicrobial peptides, ovine antimicrobial peptides, bovine antimicrobial peptides, human antimicrobial peptides, etc.; amphibian antimicrobial peptides: magainin and the like; antimicrobial peptides derived from fish, mollusks, and crustaceans: pardaxin, parasin, myticin, penaeidins, etc.; plant antimicrobial peptides: Thi-onins, etc., and bacterial antimicrobial peptides: bacitracin, gramicidin, polymyxin and nisin, etc.
The natural drug according to the present invention is selected from one or two or more of radix astragali, rhizoma polygonati, radix angelicae sinensis, notoginseng, rhizoma imperatae, charred radix et rhizoma rhei, radix curcumae, thunberg fritillary bulb, coix seeds, rhizoma pinellinae praeparata, calcined ancient ink, radix salviae miltiorrhizae, radix lithospermi, radix isatidis, herba houttuyniae, honeysuckle, rhizoma coptidis, radix scutellariae, dandelion, herba portulacae, hawthorn, folium isatidis, fructus forsythiae, herba artemisiae scopariae, herba andrographitis, radix bupleuri, herba euphorbiae humifusae, radix stemonae, garlic, cortex phellodendri, cortex eucommiae, cortex fraxini, fructus cnidii, rhizoma coptidis, Chinese gall, herba violae, smoked plum, licorice, pomegranate rind, fructus schisandrae, Chinese honeylocust spine, fructus chebulae, radix sophorae flavescentis, cortex pseudolaricis, herba epimedii, sweet wormwood or an extract thereof.
The drug of the present invention may be an oral drug, an injectable drug or a topical drug, and the topical drug includes a mucosally administered drug, preferably an ophthalmically administered drug.
A dosage form of the drug of the present invention may be a solution, a tablet, a pill, a capsule, an injection solution, a powder, a powder for injection, a patch, a paint, or a preparation for mucosal administration, and the preparation for mucosal administration is preferably an eye drop, an eye ointment, an eye spray preparation or the like.
The technical solutions in the examples of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below. In the examples provided below, only a modeling method in which mice with a mutation in a Crb1 gene are raised in a specific pathogen-free (SPF) environment is used, and it is determined that the retina of the model is infected with bacteria by verifying the presence of local inflammatory response in its retina and the presence of bacteria at a lesion site. Further, through the following experiments, it is verified that the bacteria are from an intestinal tract. This specific example does not exclude other modeling methods, such as raising in an environment with more complex microbial conditions, or applying microorganisms from an intestinal tract or the same microorganisms as intestinal microorganisms to ocular tissues, allowing an ocular tissue to be in direct or indirect contact with the microorganisms as described above, and the like.
Obviously, the described examples are only some but not all of the examples of the present invention. Based on the examples in the present invention, all other examples obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without making inventive steps are within the scope of protection of the present invention.
C57BL/6N mice (Crb1rd8/Rd8, designated as Rd8 mice) and C57BL/6J mice (Crb1wt/wt designated as wt mice) carrying an Rd8 mutation were purchased from Beijing Vital River Laboratory Animal Technology Co., Ltd. and maintained under specific pathogen-free (SPF) conditions in an animal facility of the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center. An animal facility of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University was used, and germ-free (GF) RD8 mice were generated by using embryos of female RD8 mice. GF mice were kept germ-free and facility staff performed microbiological and parasite tests on fecal samples weekly to ensure the sterility of a GF unit. Mice were genotyped as described above (Mattapallil et al., 2012). Crb1 genotypes of both mouse strains were confirmed (
The mice were sacrificed by cervical dislocation, enucleated and fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) at 4° C. for 24 h. Samples were washed for 3 times with PBS, dehydrated in a series of alcohols, dehydrated twice in xylene, then embedded in paraffin and serially sectioned with a microtome at 10 μm (RM 223; Leica, Wetzlar, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany). Sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E). H&E images were obtained from Imager.Z2 (Zeiss).
Eyes were taken, placed in 4% PFA at room temperature for 5 min, then dissected and fixed with an eye mask for 45 min. A colon tissue was taken and fixed in 4% PFA at room temperature for 4 h. After PBS rinsing, the isolated eye mask and the colon were permeabilized overnight with 30% sucrose for cryoprotection, embedded into an optimal cutting temperature (OCT) compound (Cat. 4583; SAKURA, USA), and stored at −80° C. before sectioning. Sections were cut at 12 μm for all immunostaining purposes.
Tissue sections were blocked with 10% donkey serum/PBST (0.1% tritonx-100/PBS) for 30 minutes and then incubated with a primary antibody overnight at 4° C. After washing with PBST, the sections were incubated with a fluorochrome-conjugated secondary antibody and fixed with Fluoromount-G (Southern Biotech, Birmingham, AL, USA). The same immunohistochemical method was employed to perform Phalloidin (A12379; thermo-Fisher) staining except that secondary antibodies were missed. Apotome (Zeiss) was equipped with a Zeiss confocal microscope (Zeiss LSM880; Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany) and Imager.Z2. Main antibodies used in this study were as follows: anti-Crb1 (PA5-66373, ThermoFisher; 1:50), anti-Iba1 (ab178846, Abeam; 1:500), anti-ZO-1 (61-7300, ThermoFisher; 1:500), anti-Occludin (OC-3F10, Invitrogen; 1:200), and AlexaFluor 488 phalloidin (A12379, ThermoFisher; 1:500).
The mice were anesthetized, and pupils were dilated. Hypromellose eye drops were regularly applied to keep corneas moist. Mouse fundus photographs were obtained by using a Micron IV mouse fundus camera (Phoenix Research Laboratories, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, USA).
Total RNA was extracted from a superior retina and an inferior retina with a MasterPure™ whole DNA and RNA Purification Kit (epicentre). RNA concentration was determined with a Qbit-RNA-HS analysis kit. A sequencing library was prepared by using a VAHTS™ Total RNA seq (H/M/R) Library Preparation Kit (Vazyme, China) according to a standard protocol provided by a manufacturer, and sequencing was performed on an MGISEQ 2000RS platform.
Raw reads were first evaluated for quality control by FastQC (v0.11.8) and cutadapt (v1.15). Clean reads were aligned to a mouse genome (mm10) by using HISAT2 (v2.1.0). Gene expression data were imported into a DESeq2 package of R software (v3.6.1) for differential expression analysis. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were imported into Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) for functional enrichment analysis.
Retinal samples were collected, and DNA was extracted by using a MasterPure™ Complete DNA and RNA Purification Kit (epicentre). Contents of a stomach, a jejunum, an ileum, a cecum, a colon and a rectum were collected, and DNA was extracted by using a QIAamp PowerFecal DNA Kit (QIAGEN). After concentration measurement, DNA was subjected to sequencing library preparation by using a VAHTS™ MGI Universal DNA Library Preparation Kit (Vazyme, China) according to a standard protocol provided by a manufacturer. Metagenomic sequencing was performed with MGISEQ-2000RS. Raw reads were quality-filtered by Trimmomatic (v0.36) and PRINSEQ (v0.20.4). Mouse reads were deleted by using KneadData (v0.6.1) (https://bitbucket.org/biobakery/kneaddata). Non-mouse-cleared reads were mapped to a pre-built MiniKraken database by using Kraken 2 (v2.0.9). The classification results were screened with a confidence of 0.20. A negative blank control was treated together with the samples. All species present in the negative blank control group were removed.
In vivo permeability was determined by an FITC-labeled dextran method to evaluate the barrier function. Food and water were taken out overnight and 8-week-old mice were orally administered with 50 mg of FITC-labeled dextran (FD-70; Sigma-Aldrich) per 100 grams (body weight). Serum was collected 5 h after administration and the fluorescence intensity of each sample was determined (excitation, 492 nm; emission, 525 nm).
WT and Rd8 mice were fasted overnight and gavaged with 1×109 of Escherichia coli (designed to consistently express RFP). After gavage administration for 6 h, the mice were euthanized, and 400 μL of peripheral blood was gently pipetted into a tube containing 4 mL of ACK lysis buffer (Gibco, USA) and incubated at RT for 3-5 min. After centrifugation at 300×g for 5 min, cells were fixed and permeabilized (Cytofix/perm solution, BD Biosciences, USA), and then analysis was performed by flow cytometry (MACSQuant Analyzer 10, Miltenyi Biotec, Germany).
Colons and eyes were collected immediately after euthanasia and fixed in a phosphate buffered glutaraldehyde-paraformaldehyde solution at room temperature for 1 h. The colons were cut into pieces of 2 mm. Anterior segments of the eyes were excised and posterior segments of the eyes were cut into pieces of 2 mm×2 mm. Dissected tissues were placed in a fresh fixative for 12 h, fixed with 1% osmium tetroxide, dehydrated and embedded in epon-resin. Regions of interest were pre-screened on micrometer-thick sections by staining with toluidine blue under an optical microscope. Ultrasound images at 80 nm were then collected, and counterstaining was performed with uranium acetate and lead citrate. Ultrasonic sections were observed with a transmission electron microscope.
The following oligonucleotide probe was used in this study: EUB338, 5′-GCTGCCTCCGTAG-GAGT-3′ (Amann et al., 1990). A 5′ end of the probe bears a primary amino group to which tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate is covalently bound. A dye oligonucleotide conjugate (100 μM) was stored at −20° C.
Pre-fixed retinal sections were rinsed for 3 times with DEPC-treated PBS. After treatment with 0.2% Triton X-100/DEPC-treated PBS, the sections were hybridized with the probe (500 nM) overnight at 37° C. and the hybridized material was mounted with Fluoromount-G.
Fresh mouse colon tissue (˜1 cm) was quickly frozen in liquid nitrogen, ground and lysed with RNA extraction lysis buffer. Total RNA was then purified by using a Qiagen RNeasy Plus kit and reversely transcribed into cDNA by using a Takara PrimeScript RT kit and a gDNA eraser. qPCR was used to detect the expression level of the corresponding genes. Data were normalized to β-actin.
Plasma was isolated from whole blood of WT and Rd8 mice after treatment with 2.5% DSS for 13 days. Approximately 50 μL of the plasma was used to isolate total nucleic acids by using a MasterPure™ Complete DNA and RNA Purification Kit (epicentre, USA). Precipitated nucleic acids were dissolved in 20 μL of nuclease-free water. qPCR analysis (ChamQ-SYBR-Color-qPCR-Master-Mix, Vazyme, China) was performed by using a LightCycler 96 system (Roche, USA). Since the DNA concentration in all samples was extremely low, an equal volume of each sample was used as a template (4 μL in 20 μL). A total bacterial load was measured by using following universal 16S rRNA gene primers: 27F 5′-AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAG-3′, and 534R 5′-GCATTACCGCGGCTGCTGG-3′.
Each sample was measured directly with 100 μL of plasma. The concentration of LPS in the plasma was determined with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent kit (SEB526Ge; Cloud-Clone Corp., USA).
Fresh fecal samples were collected in a 50 ml conical tube with sterile 1×PBS and spun until homogenous. Contents were filtered with a 0.22 μm filter (Millipore) to remove fecal residues and centrifuged to obtain intestinal microbiota, and then the intestinal microbiota was incubated with vanco-bodipy at RT for 30 minutes. Intestinal bacteria labeled with vanco-bodipy were gavaged at 1×108 cfu/mouse in PBS. After gavage for 24 hours, mouse retinas were taken to be sectioned for observation.
Intestinal inflammation in mice was induced by long-term oral administration of 2.5% DSS (MW 36000-50000d, Yeasen, China) in drinking water. Body weight was monitored daily from day 0 to day 13 and the mice were sacrificed on day 13 and a colon length was measured. For survival analysis, the mice were allowed to freely drink 2.5% DSS in their drinking water for 43 days, and a mortality status of the mice was monitored every 24 hours during the 43 days.
Pregnant female mice were fed with a broad-spectrum antibiotic mixture of ampicillin (A; 1 g/L; Sigma), metronidazole (M; 1 g/L), neomycin (N; 1 g/L; Sigma), and vancomycin (V; 500 mg/L) in drinking water and pups were continued to be fed after weaning. Mice in a control group were placed in a conventional apparatus on the same rack.
Retinal microenvironment characteristics of Crb1rd8/rd8 (rd8) and Crb1wt/wt (C57BL/J, designated as wt) mice were observed (
Transcriptomic analysis was performed by using an RNA-seq technology to compare gene expression profiles of superior (without lesions) and inferior (with lesions) regions of Rd8-SPF mice (
Metagenomic analysis was performed on retinal tissues of WT-SPF (n=5, age=4 weeks) and Rd8-SPF (n=4, age=4 weeks) mice. It was found through the analysis that the bacterial DNA content in retinas of WT and Rd8 mice was extremely low, and no viral or fungal DNA was detected after all quality control and decontamination steps. However, as shown in
Immunofluorescence staining data confirmed that the expression of a CRB1 protein in an outer limiting membrane of retinas of Rd8 mice was reduced or absent (
All seven bacteria (
Expression of a CRB1 protein in cecal intestinal cells of wild-type mice was identified by immunofluorescence staining, while its expression was markedly attenuated in the Rd8 mice (
Similar to the results of the cecum, it was found that the CRB1 protein was significantly expressed on the apical and basal surfaces of colonic intestinal epithelial cells (
Intestinal permeability determination was performed on WT and Rd8 mice with FICT-dextran. As shown in
WT and Rd8 mice were exposed to drinking water containing 1.5% dextran sulfate sodium (DSS), causing mild colitis in WT mice. After treatment with DSS for 13 days, it was found that a colon length of the Rd8 mice was significantly shorter than that of wild-type mice (
Although intralesional bacteria caused by disruption of an outer blood-retinal barrier and an intestinal epithelial barrier were found in retinas of Rd8 mice, it is still unclear whether these bacteria are the cause or consequence of retinal degeneration in the Rd8 mice. Therefore, the Rd8 mice were re-isolated under germ-free (GF) conditions, and it was detected whether the phenotype of retinal degeneration in the Rd8 mice was altered. As shown in
The above examples are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, but not to limit the technical solutions of the present invention; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing examples, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that modifications may still be made to the technical solutions described in the foregoing examples or equivalents substitutions may still be made to some or all of the technical features in the technical solutions; and these modifications or substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the examples of the present invention.
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20211057929.4 | Sep 2021 | CN | national |
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