Single nuclei combined ATAC/RNA sequencing (10X Multiome) of airway-resident cells isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of naive mice or mice recovered from SARS-CoV-2 (mouse-adapted strain MA10)
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ABSTRACT: Pathogen encounter results in long-lasting epigenetic imprinting that shapes diseases caused by heterologous pathogens. The breadth of this innate immune memory is of particular interest in the context of respiratory pathogens with increased pandemic potential and wide-ranging impact on global health. Here, we investigated epigenetic imprinting across cell lineages in a disease relevant murine model of SARS-CoV-2 recovery. Past SARS-CoV-2 infection resulted in increased chromatin accessibility of type I interferon (IFN-I) related transcription factors and transcriptionally poised antiviral genes in airway-resident macrophages. Mechanistically, viral pattern recognition and canonical IFN-I signaling were required for establishment of this innate immune memory and resulting augmented secondary antiviral responses. SARS-CoV-2-associated innate immune memory in airway-resident macrophages was necessary and sufficient to ameliorate secondary disease caused by the heterologous respiratory pathogen influenza A virus. Insights into how innate immune memory shapes outcome of heterologous secondary diseases could facilitate the development of broadly effective therapeutic strategies.
Project description:Pathogen encounter results in long-lasting epigenetic imprinting that shapes diseases caused by heterologous pathogens. The breadth of this innate immune memory is of particular interest in the context of respiratory pathogens with increased pandemic potential and wide-ranging impact on global health. Here, we investigated epigenetic imprinting across cell lineages in a disease relevant murine model of SARS-CoV-2 recovery. Past SARS-CoV-2 infection resulted in increased chromatin accessibility of type I interferon (IFN-I) related transcription factors and transcriptionally poised antiviral genes in airway-resident macrophages. Mechanistically, viral pattern recognition and canonical IFN-I signaling were required for establishment of this innate immune memory and resulting augmented secondary antiviral responses. SARS-CoV-2-associated innate immune memory in airway-resident macrophages was necessary and sufficient to ameliorate secondary disease caused by the heterologous respiratory pathogen influenza A virus. Insights into how innate immune memory shapes outcome of heterologous secondary diseases could facilitate the development of broadly effective therapeutic strategies.
Project description:Pathogen encounter results in long-lasting epigenetic imprinting that shapes diseases caused by heterologous pathogens. The breadth of this innate immune memory is of particular interest in the context of respiratory pathogens with increased pandemic potential and wide-ranging impact on global health. Here, we investigated epigenetic imprinting across cell lineages in a disease relevant murine model of SARS-CoV-2 recovery. Past SARS-CoV-2 infection resulted in increased chromatin accessibility of type I interferon (IFN-I) related transcription factors and transcriptionally poised antiviral genes in airway-resident macrophages. Mechanistically, viral pattern recognition and canonical IFN-I signaling were required for establishment of this innate immune memory and resulting augmented secondary antiviral responses. SARS-CoV-2-associated innate immune memory in airway-resident macrophages was necessary and sufficient to ameliorate secondary disease caused by the heterologous respiratory pathogen influenza A virus. Insights into how innate immune memory shapes outcome of heterologous secondary diseases could facilitate the development of broadly effective therapeutic strategies.
Project description:Pathogen encounter results in long-lasting epigenetic imprinting that shapes diseases caused by heterologous pathogens. The breadth of this innate immune memory is of particular interest in the context of respiratory pathogens with increased pandemic potential and wide-ranging impact on global health. Here, we investigated epigenetic imprinting across cell lineages in a disease relevant murine model of SARS-CoV-2 recovery. Past SARS-CoV-2 infection resulted in increased chromatin accessibility of type I interferon (IFN-I) related transcription factors and transcriptionally poised antiviral genes in alveolar macrophages. Mechanistically, viral pattern recognition and canonical IFN-I signaling were required for establishment of this innate immune memory and resulting augmented secondary antiviral responses. SARS-CoV-2-associated innate immune memory in alveolar macrophages was necessary and sufficient to ameliorate secondary disease caused by the heterologous respiratory pathogen influenza A virus. Insights into how innate immune memory shapes outcome of heterologous secondary diseases could facilitate the development of broadly effective therapeutic strategies.
Project description:Pathogen encounter results in long-lasting epigenetic imprinting that shapes diseases caused by heterologous pathogens. The breadth of this innate immune memory is of particular interest in the context of respiratory pathogens with increased pandemic potential and wide-ranging impact on global health. Here, we investigated epigenetic imprinting across cell lineages in a disease relevant murine model of SARS-CoV-2 recovery. Past SARS-CoV-2 infection resulted in increased chromatin accessibility of type I interferon (IFN-I) related transcription factors and transcriptionally poised antiviral genes in alveolar macrophages. Mechanistically, viral pattern recognition and canonical IFN-I signaling were required for establishment of this innate immune memory and resulting augmented secondary antiviral responses. SARS-CoV-2-associated innate immune memory in alveolar macrophages was necessary and sufficient to ameliorate secondary disease caused by the heterologous respiratory pathogen influenza A virus. Insights into how innate immune memory shapes outcome of heterologous secondary diseases could facilitate the development of broadly effective therapeutic strategies.
Project description:Pathogen encounter results in long-lasting epigenetic imprinting that shapes diseases caused by heterologous pathogens. The breadth of this innate immune memory is of particular interest in the context of respiratory pathogens with increased pandemic potential and wide-ranging impact on global health. Here, we investigated epigenetic imprinting across cell lineages in a disease relevant murine model of SARS-CoV-2 recovery. Past SARS-CoV-2 infection resulted in increased chromatin accessibility of type I interferon (IFN-I) related transcription factors and transcriptionally poised antiviral genes in alveolar macrophages. Mechanistically, viral pattern recognition and canonical IFN-I signaling were required for establishment of this innate immune memory and resulting augmented secondary antiviral responses. SARS-CoV-2-associated innate immune memory in alveolar macrophages was necessary and sufficient to ameliorate secondary disease caused by the heterologous respiratory pathogen influenza A virus. Insights into how innate immune memory shapes outcome of heterologous secondary diseases could facilitate the development of broadly effective therapeutic strategies.
Project description:The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic was characterized by increased pathogenicity in the elderly due to an early exacerbated innate host response. SARS-CoV is a zoonotic pathogen that entered the human population through an intermediate host like the palm civet. To prevent future introductions of zoonotic SARS-CoV strains and subsequent transmission into the human population, heterologous disease models are needed to test the efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics against both late human and zoonotic isolates. Here we show that both human and zoonotic SARS-CoV strains can infect cynomolgus macaques and resulted in radiological as well as histopathological changes similar to those seen in mild human cases. Viral replication was higher in animals infected with a late human phase isolate compared to a zoonotic isolate. Host responses to the three SARS-CoV strains were similar and only apparent early during infection with the majority of genes associated with interferon signalling pathways.This study characterizes critical disease models in the evaluation and licensure of therapeutic strategies against SARS-CoV for human use 4 strains, time course, lungs
Project description:Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs), including the globally successful Alpha (B.1.1.7) variant, suggests viral adaptation to enhance human-to-human transmission. Although much effort has focused on characterisation of spike changes, Alpha mutations outside spike likely contribute to adaptation. Here we used RNAseq as well as viral replication assays to show that Alpha isolates more effectively suppress innate immune responses (ISGs as assessed by RNA) in airway epithelial cells, compared to first wave isolates. We found that Alpha has dramatically increased subgenomic RNA and protein levels of N, Orf9b and Orf6, all known innate immune antagonists.
Project description:For the assessment of host response dynamics to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infections in human airway epithelial cells at ambient temperature corresponding to the upper or lower respiratory tract. We performed a temporal transcriptome analysis on human airway epithelial cell (hAEC) cultures infected with SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, as well as uninfected hAEC cultures, incubated either at 33°C or 37°C. hAEC cultures were harvested at 24, 48 72, 96 hpi and processed for Bulk RNA Barcoding and sequencing (BRB-seq), which allows a rapid and sensitive genome-wide transcriptomic analysis in a highly multiplexed manner. Transcriptome data was obtained from a total of 7 biological donors for pairwise comparisons of SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-2 virus-infected to unexposed hAEC cultures at respective time points and temperatures.
Project description:Unlike other respiratory viruses, SARS-CoV-2 disproportionately causes severe disease in older adults and only rarely in children. To investigate whether differences in the upper airway immune response could contribute to this disparity, we compared nasopharyngeal gene expression in 83 children (<19-years-old; 38 with SARS-CoV-2, 11 with other respiratory viruses, 34 with no virus) and 154 adults (>40-years-old; 45 with SARS-CoV-2, 28 with other respiratory viruses, 81 with no virus). Expression of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) was robustly activated in both children and adults with SARS-CoV-2 compared to the respective non-viral groups, with only relatively subtle distinctions. Children, however, demonstrated markedly greater upregulation of pathways related to B cell and T cell activation and proinflammatory cytokine signaling, including TNF, IFNγ, IL-2 and IL-4 production. Cell type deconvolution confirmed greater recruitment of B cells, and to a lesser degree macrophages, to the upper airway of children. Only children exhibited a decrease in proportions of ciliated cells, the primary target for SARS-CoV-2, upon infection with the virus. These findings demonstrate that children elicit a more robust innate and adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection in the upper airway that likely contributes to their protection from severe disease in the lower airway.
Project description:Children have reduced SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and a substantially lower risk for developing severe COVID-19 than adults. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying protection in younger age groups remain unknown. Here, we characterize the single-cell transcriptional landscape in the upper airways of SARS-CoV-2-negative (n=18) and age-matched SARS-CoV-2–positive children (n=24) and corresponding samples from adults (n=44), covering an age range of four weeks to 77 years. Children displayed higher basal expression of the relevant pattern recognition receptors (PRR) such as MDA5 (IFIH1) and RIG-I (DDX58) in upper airway epithelial cells, macrophages, and dendritic cells, resulting in stronger innate antiviral responses upon SARS-CoV-2 infection than adults. We further detected distinct immune cell subpopulations including KLRC1 (NKG2A)+ cytotoxic T cells and a CD8+ T cell population with a memory phenotype occurring predominantly in children. Our study provides evidence that the airway immune cells of children are primed for virus sensing, resulting in a stronger early innate antiviral responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection than adults.