Project description:The mucosa is an ideal route for vaccination against pathogen infection, but the effective adjuvant capable of overcoming the tolerogenic dendritic cell (DC) environment is unavailable. We characterized type 2 conventional DCs and lysozyme-expressing monocyte-derived DCs (LysoDCs) of Peyer’s patches to identify the vaccination target cells through single-cell RNA sequencing. Based on functional analysis of the data, we suggest that C5aR+ LysoDCs and Co1 peptide, a C5aR ligand, as a target cell and an adjuvant, respectively, for mucosal vaccination. Co1-mediated stimulation of C5aR+ LysoDCs increased the level of reactive oxygen species, leading to CCL3-mediated chemotaxis and exogenous antigen cross-presentation, which elicited an antigen-specific CD8+ T cell response. In a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine model, Co1 peptide increased the frequency of antigen-specific polyfunctional CD8+ T cells in systemic as well as mucosal compartments. Collectively, LysoDC activation by Co1 peptide potentiates vaccination efficiency by constructing an immunostimulatory environment in the mucosal immune inductive site.
Project description:We conducted microarray experiments by comparing constitutive constructs with appropriate controls, followed by the identification of downstream targets of Pro35S:CO1 Four samples of mature leaf tissues were collected from four independent lines of 35S:CO1 and pBI101. RNA was extracted from tissues and hybridized on Affymetrix Genechip Poplar Genome Array.
