Project description:Central questions regarding the origin of memory CD8 T cells, their turnover and longevity in vivo are not well-defined in humans. Here, we have used the highly efficacious live yellow fever virus vaccine (YFV-17D) to address these issues in the context of a primary acute viral infection. We interrogated genome-wide CpG methylation of YFV tetramer-specific CD8 T cells. These findings provide a better understanding of how memory CD8 T cells are formed and maintained in humans.
Project description:Immune response to infection involves the regulation of numerouse genes in numerous cell types. The number and type of genes that become differentially expressed in response to infection can result in very different pathophysiologic presentations and disease course. Wild type YFV and 17D despite having very few genetic differences result in very different disease outcomes in human and monkey hosts. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression of Rhesus macaque immune cells responding to both wild type and 17D strains of YFV. We identified distinct classes of gene expression as well as marked differences in differential gene expression between responses to 17D and wild type strains of YFV. Rhesus PBMC were isolated before and on day 3 of either vaccination with 17D or infection with wild type YFV with an n of 3 per group. Total RNA was extracted and hybridized on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:<p>The efficacy of the adaptive immune response declines dramatically with age, but the cell-intrinsic mechanisms driving the changes characteristic of immune aging in humans remain poorly understood. One hallmark of immune aging is the loss of self-renewing naive cells and the accumulation of differentiated but dysfunctional cells within the CD8 T cell compartment. Using ATAC-seq, we first inferred the transcription factor binding activities that maintain the naive and central and effector memory CD8 T cell states in young adults. Integrating our results with RNA-seq, we determined that BATF, ETS1, Eomes, and Sp1 govern transcription networks associated with specific CD8 T cell subset properties, including activation and proliferative potential. Extending our analysis to aged humans, we found that the differences between memory and naive CD8 T cells were largely preserved across age, but that naive and central memory cells from older individuals exhibited a shift toward a more differentiated pattern of chromatin openness. Additionally, aged naive cells displayed a loss in chromatin openness at gene promoters, a phenomenon that appears to be due largely to a loss in binding by NRF1, leading to a marked drop-off in the ability of the naive cell to initiate transcription of mitochondrial genes. Our findings identify BATF- and NRF1-driven gene regulation as targets for delaying CD8 T cell aging and restoring T cell function.</p>
Project description:We tested the effects of co-infection on vaccine response to YFV-17D. Groups of mice were divided into either Mock infected or Co-infected groups. Mock infected were housed in a biohazard facility and inoculated with PBS. Co-infected were infected sequentially with murine gammaherpesvirus-68, murine cytomegalovirus, influenza WSN, and Heligmosimoides polygyrus. Both mock and co-infected groups were challenged with Yellow Fever virus (YFV-17D). Day 0 is prior to YFV. Days 3, 7, and 21 were timepoints after YFV.
Project description:We performed an in-depth characterization and comparison of the immune system diversity and complexity in the spleen of conventional NRG-HIS mice and NFA2-HIS/Ftl3LG mice upon YFV-17D infection, a live-attenuated virus that induce that induce potent protective immunity in human. To do so, we employed Seq-Well, a recently developed platform for massively parallel single-cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-Seq), on splenocytes from NRG-HIS mice and NFA2-HIS/Flt3LG mice at six-weeks post YFV-17D infection. Our data provide an in-depth view of the cellular composition of the HIS in conventional and second-generation humanized mice. They also highlight the enhanced engraftment and functionality of the critical role of the myeloid and NK cell compartment in NFA2-HIS/Flt3LG mice, which is likely critical in promoting an enhanced transcriptomic, cellular and humoral response to YFV-17D.
Project description:Human Naïve-like CD8 T cells induced by the Yellow Fever Vaccine 17D were compared to the conventional subsets in total CD8 T cells Samples originate from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from 8 different donors vaccinated with the YF-17D vaccine 1'000 cells from various CD8 T cells subsets were purified by flow cytometry, from 8 vaccinees (donors d1 to d8); the subsets (cell types) include: A2/NS4b tetramer positive CCR7+ CD45RA+ CD8 T cells (A2_NS4b Naïve-like), Total Naive (CCR7+ CD45RA+), Total Tscm (CCR7+ CD45RA+ CD58+ CD95+), Total CM (CCR7+ CD45RA-) and Total Effectors (CCR7 negative).
Project description:Immune response to infection involves the regulation of numerouse genes in numerous cell types. The number and type of genes that become differentially expressed in response to infection can result in very different pathophysiologic presentations and disease course. Wild type YFV and 17D despite having very few genetic differences result in very different disease outcomes in human and monkey hosts. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression of Rhesus macaque immune cells responding to both wild type and 17D strains of YFV. We identified distinct classes of gene expression as well as marked differences in differential gene expression between responses to 17D and wild type strains of YFV.