Next generation sequencing transcriptome analysis of patient-derived macrophages after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination
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ABSTRACT: Innate immunity triggers responsible for viral control or hyperinflammation in COVID-19 are largely unknown. Recently we could show that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (S-protein) primes inflammasome formation and release of mature interleukin-1β (IL-1β) in macrophages derived from COVID-19 patients but not in macrophages from healthy SARS-CoV-2 naïve individuals (Theobald et al. EMBO Mol Med. 2021). Further analysis revealed that SARS-CoV-2 infection causes profound and long-lived reprogramming of macrophages resulting in augmented immunogenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 S-protein, a major vaccine antigen and potent driver of adaptive and innate immune signaling. In this project we want to focus on novel mRNA vaccines, which are exploiting S-protein driven immunogenicity for protection against SARS-CoV-2. Transcriptome analyses of macrophages might reveal differences in innate immune-associated pathways between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals after prime-boost. Thus, our project could help to gain a better understanding of vaccine-induced immunity including underlying molecular mechanisms in the interaction of the innate and adaptive immune system after mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE200274 | GEO | 2022/05/02
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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