Protective intravenous BCG vaccination induces enhanced immune signaling in the airways

Intradermal (ID) Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the most widely administered vaccine in the world. However, ID-BCG fails to achieve the level of protection needed in adults to alter the course of the tuberculosis epidemic. Recent studies in non-human primates have demonstrated high levels of protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ) following intravenous (IV) administration of BCG. However, the protective immune features that emerge following IV BCG vaccination remain incompletely defined. Here we used single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNAseq) to transcriptionally profile 157,114 unstimulated and purified protein derivative (PPD)-stimulated bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cells from 29 rhesus macaques immunized with BCG across routes of administration and doses to uncover cell composition-, gene expression-, and biological network-level signatures associated with IV BCG-mediated protection. Our analyses revealed that high-dose IV BCG drove an influx of polyfunctional T cells and macrophages into the airways. These macrophages exhibited a basal activation phenotype even in the absence of PPD-stimulation, defined in part by IFN and TNF-α signaling up to 6 months following BCG immunization. Furthermore, intercellular immune signaling pathways between key myeloid and T cell subsets were enhanced following PPD-stimulation in high-dose IV BCG-vaccinated macaques. High-dose IV BCG also engendered quantitatively and qualitatively stronger transcriptional responses to PPD-stimulation, with a robust Th1-Th17 transcriptional phenotype in T cells, and augmented transcriptional signatures of reactive oxygen species production, hypoxia, and IFN-γ response within alveolar macrophages. Collectively, this work supports that IV BCG immunization creates a unique cellular ecosystem in the airways, which primes and enables local myeloid cells to effectively clear Mtb upon challenge.

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E-Artikel

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2023) vom: 18. Juli

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Englisch

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Peters, Joshua M [VerfasserIn]
Irvine, Edward B [VerfasserIn]
Rosenberg, Jacob M [VerfasserIn]
Wadsworth, Marc H [VerfasserIn]
Hughes, Travis K [VerfasserIn]
Sutton, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Nyquist, Sarah K [VerfasserIn]
Bromley, Joshua D [VerfasserIn]
Mondal, Rajib [VerfasserIn]
Roederer, Mario [VerfasserIn]
Seder, Robert A [VerfasserIn]
Darrah, Patricia A [VerfasserIn]
Alter, Galit [VerfasserIn]
Flynn, JoAnne L [VerfasserIn]
Shalek, Alex K [VerfasserIn]
Fortune, Sarah M [VerfasserIn]
Bryson, Bryan D [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 28.07.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1101/2023.07.16.549208

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NLM360028098