Figure 5.
Parasite stage-driven modulation of macrophage transcripts encoding functionally related proteins during L. donovani infection. (A) Heatmaps of selected transcripts differentially regulated only by amastigotes (left panel), promastigotes (middle panel) or both (right panel). Manually curated ontology groups are shown for stage-specific regulated transcripts (left and middle panels). Analyses were carried out on data generated from at least three biological replicates. *Targets selected for validation by RT-qPCR. (B) Relative mRNA amounts of Ccl5, Cd274, and Hmox1 (normalized to Actb) were measured by RT-qPCR. Data are presented as mean ± SD (biological replicates, n = 3). *p < 0.05 (for the indicated comparisons), ns non-significant.