Fig. 5.

Fig. 5. Dual RNA-seq identifies mycobacterial transcripts specifically enriched in necrotic WT granulomas.

(A) Volcano plot showing the differential expression of M. marinum genes in WT granulomas versus broth culture. The horizontal dotted line indicates a P_adj threshold of 0.1, whereas the vertical dotted lines represent log₂ fold change thresholds of −1 and 1, respectively. (B) Venn diagram comparing up-regulated mycobacterial genes from necrotic granulomas in zebrafish with previously published data from in vivo mouse macrophages. (C and D) Heatmaps showing mycobacterial genes commonly up-regulated in zebrafish necrotic granulomas and in vivo mouse macrophages, related to PDIM synthesis and transport, and cholesterol catabolism. AM, alveolar macrophages; IM, interstitial macrophages. Four randomly selected genes specifically up-regulated in necrotic granulomas (colored green) were included to improve scaling and avoid skewed representation. (E) Heatmaps showing mycobacterial genes specifically up-regulated in zebrafish necrotic granulomas versus in vivo mouse macrophages, related to resuscitation promoting factors, ion transport, electron transport chain, nitrogen metabolism, oxidative stress response, chaperones, and Clp proteases. (F) Box plots showing the median log-normalized counts of representative transcripts from (E) in WT granulomas and broth culture. Each data point represents the log-normalized count of the respective transcript from an individual experiment. Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) correction was used to determine the adjusted P values.