Immunosuppression is a conserved driver of tuberculosis susceptibility

Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ) causes 1.6 million deaths a year 1 . However, no individual mouse model fully recapitulates the hallmarks of human tuberculosis disease. Here we report that a comparison across three different susceptible mouse models identifies Mtb -induced gene signatures that predict active TB disease in humans significantly better than a signature from the standard C57BL/6 mouse model. An increase in lung myeloid cells, including neutrophils, was conserved across the susceptible mouse models, mimicking the neutrophilic inflammation observed in humans 2,3 . Myeloid cells in the susceptible models and non-human primates exhibited high expression of immunosuppressive molecules including the IL-1 receptor antagonist, which inhibits IL-1 signaling. Prior reports have suggested that excessive IL-1 signaling impairs Mtb control 4-6 . By contrast, we found that enhancement of IL-1 signaling via deletion of IL-1 receptor antagonist promoted bacterial control in all three susceptible mouse models. IL-1 signaling enhanced cytokine production by lymphoid and stromal cells, suggesting a mechanism for IL-1 signaling in promoting Mtb control. Thus, we propose that myeloid cell expression of immunosuppressive molecules is a conserved mechanism exacerbating Mtb disease in mice, non-human primates, and humans.

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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: 01. Nov.

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Englisch

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Kotov, Dmitri I [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Ophelia V [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Daisy X [VerfasserIn]
Jaye, David L [VerfasserIn]
Suliman, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Gabay, Cem [VerfasserIn]
Vance, Russell E [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 03.01.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1101/2023.10.27.564420

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NLM364530839