Title
Transcriptomic analysis of CD4 t cells reveals novel immune signatures of latent tuberculosis
Date Issued
01 May 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Burel J.G.
Lindestam Arlehamn C.S.
Khan N.
Seumois G.
Greenbaum J.A.
Taplitz R.
Vijayanand P.
Sette A.
Peters B.
Publisher(s)
American Association of Immunologists
Abstract
In the context of infectious diseases, cell population transcriptomics are useful to gain mechanistic insight into protective immune responses, which is not possible using traditional whole-blood approaches. In this study, we applied a cell population transcriptomics strategy to sorted memory CD4 T cells to define novel immune signatures of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and gain insight into the phenotype of tuberculosis (TB)-specific CD4 T cells. We found a 74-gene signature that could discriminate between memory CD4 T cells from healthy latently Mycobacterium tuberculosis–infected subjects and noninfected controls. The gene signature presented a significant overlap with the gene signature of the Th1* (CCR6 + CXCR3 + CCR4 2 ) subset of CD4 T cells, which contains the majority of TB-specific reactivity and is expanded in LTBI. In particular, three Th1* genes (ABCB1, c-KIT, and GPA33) were differentially expressed at the RNA and protein levels in memory CD4 T cells of LTBI subjects compared with controls. The 74-gene signature also highlighted novel phenotypic markers that further defined the CD4 T cell subset containing TB specificity. We found the majority of TB-specific epitope reactivity in the CD62L 2 GPA33 2 Th1* subset. Thus, by combining cell population transcriptomics and single-cell protein-profiling techniques, we identified a CD4 T cell immune signature of LTBI that provided novel insights into the phenotype of TB-specific CD4 T cells. The Journal of Immunology, 2018, 200: 3283–3290.
Start page
3283
End page
3290
Volume
200
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas Inmunología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85045937261
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Immunology
ISSN of the container
00221767
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