Project description:MV130 is an inactivated polybacterial mucosal vaccine that confers protection to patients against recurrent respiratory infections, including those of viral etiology. However, its mechanism of action remains poorly understood. Herein, we observe that intranasal prophylaxis with MV130 modulates the lung immune landscape and provides long term heterologous protection against viral respiratory infections in mice. Intranasal administration of MV130 provided protection against systemic candidiasis in wild-type and Rag1-deficient mice lacking functional lymphocytes, indicative of innate immune-mediated protection. Moreover, pharmacological inhibition of trained immunity with metformin abrogated the protection conferred by MV130 against Influenza A virus respiratory infection. MV130 induced reprogramming of mouse bone marrow progenitor cells and human monocytes, promoting an enhanced cytokine production that relied on metabolic and epigenetic shifts. Our results unveil that the mucosal a dministration of a fully inactivated bacterial vaccine provides protection against viral infections by a mechanism associated with the induction of trained immunity. This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Project description:Simple cost-effective bacterins are the earliest and most successfully used commercial vaccines in fish. In particular, those prepared from Yersinia ruckeri have proven effective at controlling Enteric Red Mouth Disease (ERM) and yersiniosis in rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon, respectively. However, the emergence of outbreaks of ERM caused by atypical biotypes of Y. ruckeri and reports of vaccine failure resulting in mass mortality of hatchery Atlantic salmon has reinvigorated interest in vaccines against fish bacterial diseases. Therefore the objective of this study was to identify surrogates of protection against yersiniosis using cDNA microarray to characterise the response of host genes in the gills of unvaccinated and vaccinated Atlantic salmon challenged with Y. ruckeri. Differentially expressed genes were identified using two-way ANOVA and restricted to those with >2.5-fold change at P<0.05. Using cDNA microarray we identified the expression of 6 genes in response to infection and 4 genes associated with the protective host response to yersiniosis. Analysis by real-time PCR confirmed that three immunologically relevant genes, namely a cathelicidin (47-fold) and a C-type lectin (19-fold) increased in response to yersiniosis. Including collagenase (17-fold increase), an important tissue remodelling and repair enzyme, these genes represent 3 of 6 non-protective and/or pathological responses to yersiniosis. Genes associated with the protective host response included an immunoglobulin gene and a selenoprotein that showed significant fold changes (15-fold increases each), highlighting the importance of antibody-mediated protection against yersiniosis. These findings provide much needed knowledge of the host-pathogen interaction in response to bacterial infection and immunisation in fish. Significantly, we identified a transcriptional biosignature consisting of predominantly immune-relevant genes (14 up and 3 down-regulated) in the gills of Atlantic salmon after immersion vaccination and before bacterial challenge. This biosignature may be used as a surrogate of protection and therefore as a predictor of vaccine success against yersiniosis. 36 microarray slides representing 6 individual fish (biological replicates) at 0 h (pre-challenge), 8 h, and 72 h post-challenge from both vaccinated and unvaccinated fish. Two-colour array using sample cDNA labelled with Cy5 and a common reference aRNA labelled with Cy3 hybridized to each slide.
Project description:Campylobacter jejuni is a common cause of diarrheal disease worldwide. Human infection typically occurs through the ingestion of contaminated poultry products. We previously demonstrated that an attenuated Escherichia coli live vaccine strain expressing the C. jejuni N-glycan on its surface reduces the Campylobacter load in more than 50% of vaccinated leghorn and broiler birds to undetectable levels (responder birds), whereas the remainder of the animals were still colonized (non-responders). To understand the underlying mechanism, we conducted 3 larger scale vaccination and challenge studies using 135 broiler birds and found a similar responder/non responder effect. The submitted data were used for a genome-wide association study of the chicken responses to glycoconjugate vaccination against Campylobacter jejuni.
Project description:MV130 is an inactivated polybacterial mucosal vaccine that confers protection to patients against recurrent respiratory infections, including those of viral etiology. We showed that MV130 induces long term heterologous protection against viral respiratory infections in mice by a mechanism associated with the induction of trained immunity. Moreover, we found that MV130 induces reprogramming of in vitro human monocytes promoting metabolic changes and enhanced cytokine production. To assess the role of epigenetic changes in MV130-mediated trained immunity induction in human monocytes we measured the chromatin accessibility landscape using ATAC-seq.
Project description:To determine the blood transcriptional response to intravenous (IV) BCG vaccination in rhesus macaques and identify correlates of vaccine-mediated protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) challenge.
Project description:To determine the blood transcriptional response to BCG vaccination administered via different routes in rhesus macaques and identify correlates of vaccine-mediated protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) challenge.
Project description:Simple cost-effective bacterins are the earliest and most successfully used commercial vaccines in fish. In particular, those prepared from Yersinia ruckeri have proven effective at controlling Enteric Red Mouth Disease (ERM) and yersiniosis in rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon, respectively. However, the emergence of outbreaks of ERM caused by atypical biotypes of Y. ruckeri and reports of vaccine failure resulting in mass mortality of hatchery Atlantic salmon has reinvigorated interest in vaccines against fish bacterial diseases. Therefore the objective of this study was to identify surrogates of protection against yersiniosis using cDNA microarray to characterise the response of host genes in the gills of unvaccinated and vaccinated Atlantic salmon challenged with Y. ruckeri. Differentially expressed genes were identified using two-way ANOVA and restricted to those with >2.5-fold change at P<0.05. Using cDNA microarray we identified the expression of 6 genes in response to infection and 4 genes associated with the protective host response to yersiniosis. Analysis by real-time PCR confirmed that three immunologically relevant genes, namely a cathelicidin (47-fold) and a C-type lectin (19-fold) increased in response to yersiniosis. Including collagenase (17-fold increase), an important tissue remodelling and repair enzyme, these genes represent 3 of 6 non-protective and/or pathological responses to yersiniosis. Genes associated with the protective host response included an immunoglobulin gene and a selenoprotein that showed significant fold changes (15-fold increases each), highlighting the importance of antibody-mediated protection against yersiniosis. These findings provide much needed knowledge of the host-pathogen interaction in response to bacterial infection and immunisation in fish. Significantly, we identified a transcriptional biosignature consisting of predominantly immune-relevant genes (14 up and 3 down-regulated) in the gills of Atlantic salmon after immersion vaccination and before bacterial challenge. This biosignature may be used as a surrogate of protection and therefore as a predictor of vaccine success against yersiniosis.
Project description:Vaccine-associated enhanced disease (VAED) poses a significant challenge in vaccine development for certain diseases. Vaccine-associated enhanced respiratory disease (VAERD), a form of VAED, has been observed in pigs vaccinated with whole-inactivated vaccine against influenza A virus (IAV) vaccines, followed by an exposure to antigenically mismatched virus strains. Similar outcomes have been reported in pigs vaccinated with a protein-based vaccine containing hemagglutinin (HA), a key viral surface antigen of IAV. We recently developed a lipid nanoparticle encapsulated DNA vaccine encoding the HA gene of IAV, which induced robust immune responses after a single immunization and protected pigs against homologous IAV challenges. This study compared the immunogenicity and efficacy of HA-protein-based and HA-DNA-based vaccines against an antigenically mismatched IAV strain in pigs. While the HA protein-based vaccine exacerbated lung consolidation compared to non-vaccinated controls, the HA-based DNA vaccine prevented gross lung lesion development. Transcriptome analysis revealed distinct gene expression profiles, highlighting differences in host immune responses. These findings provide direct evidence that the same vaccine antigen, when delivered through different platforms, can result in different outcomes: protection versus disease enhancement. This underscores the importance of selecting appropriate delivery platforms for vaccine development. Furthermore, the IAV vaccine in pigs could be a valuable model for studying the immunological mechanisms underlying vaccine-enhanced diseases.
Project description:MV130 is an inactivated polybacterial mucosal vaccine that confers protection to patients against recurrent respiratory infections, including those of viral etiology. We showed that MV130 induces long term heterologous protection against viral respiratory infections in mice. Moreover, intranasal administration of MV130 provided protection against systemic candidiasis in wild-type and Rag1-deficient mice lacking functional lymphocytes, indicative of innate immune-mediated protection. As trained immunity acts via modulation of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (Kaufmann et al., 2018; Mitroulis et al., 2018) we hypothesized that MV130 could confer systemic long-term protection through reprogramming of hematopoietic precursors. For that we measured the chromatin accessibility landscape in multipotent progenitors (MPPs) coming from mice treated with MV130 or its excipient using ATAC-seq.