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GENETIC VARIATION IN CHROMOSOME Y REGULATES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INFLUENZA A VIRUS INFECTION

ABSTRACT: Males of many species, ranging from humans to insects, are more susceptible than females to parasitic, fungal, bacterial, and viral infections. One mechanism which has been proposed to account for this difference is the ‘immunocompetence handicap model’ which posits that the higher infectious disease burden in males is due to testosterone (T), which drives the development of secondary male sex characteristics at the expense of suppressing immunity. However, emerging data suggest that cell-intrinsic (chromosome X and Y) sex-specific factors may also contribute to the sex differences in infectious disease burden. Using a murine model of influenza A virus (IAV) infection and a panel of chromosome Y (ChrY) consomic strains on the C57BL/6J background, we present data showing that genetic variation in ChrY influences IAV pathogenesis in males. Specific ChrY variants increase susceptibility to IAV in males and augment pathogenic immune responses in the lung, including activation of pro-inflammatory IL-17-producing γδ T cells, without affecting viral replication. Additionally, susceptibility to IAV segregates independently of copy number variation (CNV) in multicopy ChrY gene families that influence susceptibility to other immunopathologic phenotypes, including survival following infection with Coxsackievirus B3. These results demonstrate a critical role for genetic variation in ChrY in regulating susceptibility to infectious disease.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE94540 | GEO | 2017/02/07

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA371447

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Diversity in the human genome is one factor that confers resistance and susceptibility to infectious diseases. This is observed most dramatically during pandemics, where individuals exhibit large differences in risk and clinical outcomes against a pathogen infecting large portions of the world’s populations. Here, we developed scHi-HOST (single cell High-throughput Human in vitrO Susceptibility Testing), a method for rapidly identifying genetic variants that confer resistance and susceptibility to pathogens. scHi-HOST leverages scRNA-seq (single-cell RNA-sequencing) to simultaneously assign genetic identity to individual cells in mixed infections of cell lines of European, African, and Asian origin, reveal associated genetic variants for viral entry and replication, and identify expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs). Applying scHi-HOST to influenza A virus (IAV), we identified eQTLs at baseline and in genes that are induced by IAV infection. Integration of scHi-HOST with a human IAV challenge study (Prometheus) revealed that a missense variant in ERAP1 (Endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase 1; rs27895) was associated with IAV burden in cells and human volunteers. Functional studies using RNA interference, ERAP1 inhibitor, and overexpression of alternative alleles demonstrated that ERAP1 is exploited by IAV to promote infection. Specifically, the nonsynonymous substitution, which results in a glycine to aspartate substitution at ERAP1 residue 348, would disrupt the substrate binding pocket of ERAP1, likely resulting in a significantly altered preference for substrates, poorer catalytic efficiency, or both. Finally, rs27895 exhibits substantial population differentiation, with the higher frequency of the minor T allele in two African populations likely contributing to the greater permissivity of cells from these populations to IAV infection. scHi-HOST is an important resource for understanding susceptibility to influenza and is a broadly applicable method for decoding human genetics of infectious disease.

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GENETIC VARIATION IN CHROMOSOME Y REGULATES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INFLUENZA A VIRUS INFECTION

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