Project description:We demonstrate that hydroxychloroquine inhibits trained immunity at the functional and epigenetic level and is accompanied by reduced expression of interferon-stimulated genes. Trained immunity comprises a functional adaptation induced by epigenetic reprogramming which facilitates the anti-viral innate immune response.
Project description:scRNAseq of monocytes from in vitro Trained immunity experiments stimulated by β-glucan (BG), uric acid (UA), muramyl dipeptide (MDP), oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL), or RPMI-Control, and respective samples restimulated with Lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
Project description:Monocyte differentiation into macrophages represents one of the cornerstone processes in innate host defense. In addition, immunological imprinting of either tolerance or trained immunity after an initial infection determines the functional fate of innate immune cells and the susceptibility of the host to secondary infections. Here we comprehensively characterize the epigenetic profiles of these functional states relative to healthy adult naM-CM-/ve monocytes. Inflammatory and metabolic pathways are strongly modulated in the derived macrophages, including decreased activation of inflammasome components. The cAMP-dependent signaling pathway is remodeled and adrenergic signaling was functionally implicated in trained innate immunity induction in vivo. Interestingly, M-oM-^AM-"-Glucan trains innate immune cells through extensive remodeling of distal regulatory region-bound histone acetylation, resulting in a sizeable exclusive epigenomic signature. Accordingly, genome-wide transcription factor footprint analysis reveals a specific transcription factor repertoire at trained cell-specific enhancers when recouped with epigenetic data, forming a rich hypothesis generator to manipulate innate immunity. Monocytes were pre-incubated either with cell culture medium (RPMI), M-NM-2-glucan (5M-BM-5g/mL) or with LPS (100ng/mL), for 24 hours in a total volume of 10 mL. After a wash-out, cells were cultured in RPMI supplemented with 10% human pool serum. Monocytes were collected at different time points (0 h and 6 d after treatment) and counted before further treatment for chromatin immunoprecipitation, RNA or DNaseI treatment. Different donor Buffycoats (BC) were used as independent replicates. Replicates were generated for all the profiles including ChIPseq,RNAseq and DNaseIseq.
Project description:Trained immunity is the heightened state of innate immune memory that enhances immune response resulting in nonspecific protection. Epigenetic changes and metabolic reprogramming are critical steps that regulate trained immunity. In this study, we reported the involvement of O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), a DNA repair enzyme of lesion induced by alkylating agents, in regulation the trained immunity induced by β-glucan (BG). Pharmacological inhibition or silencing of MGMT expression altered LPS stimulated pro-inflammatory cytokine productions in BG-trained bone marrow derived macrophages (BMMs). Targeted deletion of Mgmt in BMMs resulted in reduction of the trained responses both in vitro and in vivo models. The transcriptomic analysis revealed that the dampening trained immunity in MGMT KO BMMs is partially mediated by ATM/FXR/AMPK axis affecting the MAPK/mTOR/HIF1α pathways and the reduction in glycolysis function. Taken together, a failure to resolve a DNA damage may have consequences for innate immune memory.
Project description:Supranormal levels of aldosterone are associated with increased cardiovascular risk in humans, and with accelerated atherosclerosis in animal models. Atherosclerosis is a low-grade inflammatory disorder, with monocyte-derived macrophages as major drivers of plaque formation. Monocytes can adopt a long-term pro-inflammatory phenotype after brief stimulation with microbial pathogens or endogenous atherogenic lipoproteins via a process termed trained immunity. Using a primary human in vitro model, we demonstrate that aldosterone induces trained immunity via the mineralocorticoid receptor. We identify fatty acid synthesis as a crucial pathway necessary for the induction of trained immunity in monocyte-derived macrophages and demonstrate that pharmacological inhibition of this pathway blunts aldosterone-induced trained immunity. At the level of gene regulation, aldosterone promotes enrichment of the transcriptionally-permissive H3K4me3 modification at promoters of genes central to the fatty acid synthesis pathway. These data provide mechanistic insight into the contribution of aldosterone to inflammation, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
Project description:We generated BMDMs from aged C57BL/6J mice. BMDMs were treated with C.ablican derived β-glucan, which is known to induce trained immunity. mRNA was isolated form immune trained and control BMDMs using the Rneasy Kit from Qiagen. Library preparation and sequencing performed by Novogene. We found that trained immunity induced transcriptional changes in BMDMs from aged mice
Project description:Trained immunity is classically characterized by long-term epigenetic reprogramming of innate immune cells to combat infectious diseases. Infection-induced organ injury is a common clinical severity phenotype of sepsis. However, whether the induction of trained immunity plays a role in protecting septic-organ injury remains largely unknown. Here, through establishing an in vivo β-glucan training and secondary LPS challenge-induced organ injury model in zebrafish larvae, we observe that induction of trained immunity could inhibit the pyroptosis of hepatocytes to alleviate septic-liver injury, with an elevated epigenetic modification of trimethylation at histone 3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) that targets mitophagy activation. Moreover, we identify a novel C-type lectin domain receptor in zebrafish, named DrDectin-1, which is revealed as the orchestrator in gating H3K4me3 rewiring-mediated mitophagy activation and alleviating the pyroptosis-engaged septic-liver injury in vivo. Taken together, our results uncover a tissue-resident trained immunity in maintaining tissue homeostasis at a whole animal level, and offer a facile in vivo model to efficiently integrate trained immunity for immunotherapies.
Project description:Human NK cells were treated with IL-12/15/18 to induce trained immunity. scRNA-seq and TotalSeqTM were performed to map the development pathway of trained NK cells.