Bacterial infection disrupts established germinal center reactions through monocyte recruitment and impaired metabolic adaptation [Single-cell RNA-seq]
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ABSTRACT: Consecutive exposures to different pathogens are very common and often alter host immune responses. Yet, it remains unknown how a secondary bacterial infection interferes with an ongoing adaptive immune response elicited against primary invading pathogens. Here, we demonstrate that pre-existing germinal center (GC) B cells are incapable of enduring radical metabolic changes induced by recruited Sca-1+ monocytes during Salmonella Typhimurium (STm) infection. GCs-induced by influenza, plasmodium and commensals deteriorated upon STm infection. GC collapse was independent of direct bacterial interactions with B cells, but rather, was induced through recruitment of CCR2-dependent Sca-1+ monocytes. GC collapse was dependent on non-B cell TLR-4, TNFα and IFNγ, which was essential for Sca-1+ monocyte differentiation in the bone-marrow. Monocyte recruitment and GC disruption also occurred during LPS-supplemented vaccination and Listeria monocytogenes infection. Thus, systemic activation of the innate immune response upon lethal bacterial infection is induced at the expense of antibody-mediated immunity.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE188475 | GEO | 2022/11/02
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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