Project 2: Epigenetic ontogeny of vaccine response, susceptibility to respiratory infectious disease and asthma

项目2：疫苗反应、呼吸道传染病和哮喘易感性的表观遗传个体发育

• 批准号: 10589821
• 负责人: Tobias R. Kollmann
• 金额: $ 12.62万
• 依托单位: BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-10 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10589821
• 关键词: Acute; Age; Antibodies; Asthma; Benchmarking; Biological Markers; Birth; Blood specimen; Cells; Characteristics; Child; Childhood; Clinical; Communicable Diseases; Complex; DNA Methylation; DNA methylation profiling; Data; Data Set; Development; Disease; Early Diagnosis; Elements; Enhancers; Environment; Epigenetic Process; Event; Exhibits; Functional disorder; Genes; Genome; Genomics; Growth; Hypersensitivity; Immune; Immune response; Immunity; Immunologic Memory; Immunologics; Individual; Infection; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Link; Machine Learning; Measures; Mediating; Methylation; Modeling; Modification; Molecular; Mucous Membrane; Outcome; Participant; Pathologic; Pathway interactions; Performance; Perinatal; Peripheral; Phenotype; Predisposition; Production; Prognostic Marker; Receptor Signaling; Recurrence; Regression Analysis; Reproducibility; Respiratory Tract Infections; Role; Shapes; Subgroup; Systemic infection; Testing; Time; Training; Vaccination; Vaccines; biomarker signature; catalyst; cohort; combinatorial; disorder risk; environmental allergen; epigenetic marker; epigenetic profiling; epigenetic regulation; epigenome-wide association studies; genetic signature; genome-wide; immunoregulation; insight; learning algorithm; microbial; microbiome; microbiota; mucosal microbiota; novel; pathogen; personalized intervention; potential biomarker; predictive marker; preventive intervention; prognostic model; promoter; prospective; resilience; respiratory; response; statistical learning; vaccination outcome; vaccine response

SUMMARY – Project 2 (PR2) Early life microbial exposures can shape an individual’s basal immune state influencing acute responses to infections, vaccines and responses to environmental allergens. Perinatal microbial exposures are known to influence immune ontogeny and are linked to rising rates of allergy and asthma, yet mechanisms remain poorly defined. Colonisation of the mucosae by microbiota, vaccinations and systemic infections all modify immune ontogeny, but a mechanistic understanding of the combinatorial interactions of these events in the early life course, and their resulting programming effects on immune development in early life (IDEAL) are lacking. Project 2 (PR2) will investigate epigenetic mechanisms as a basis for understanding microbially-mediated programming of IDEAL. A growing body of work highlights an important role for epigenetic regulation of the genome in both central and peripheral immune cells following vaccination and infection. Dynamic changes in epigenetic modifications at gene enhancers and promoters in innate cells are mechanistically linked to pathogen recognition receptor (PRR) signalling. These mechanisms therefore bridge the microbial environment, host genome and immune ontogeny. Early life microbial exposures are a complex construct considering the broad scope of interactions and factors to consider. Yet our collaborators in the Clinical Core (CC; Lead Pichichero) have demonstrated reproducibly that some children display a phenotype of low production of protective antibody (Ab) levels to routine vaccinations with concomitant low cellular immune memory (low vaccine responders, LVR), whilst others exhibit robust protective immunity (high vaccine responders, HVR). In addition to this, some children are prone to recurrent respiratory infections (infection prone, IP) whilst others with similar pathogen burden are resilient (non-infection prone, NIP). These phenotypic subgroups will be capitalized upon as latent variables that reflect the construct of microbially-mediated immune programming through a latent class analysis. The overall effort will define trajectories of mucosal and systemic (e.g., immune ontogeny and microbiome across our IDEAL Meta Cohort (IMC) comprised of four diverse longitudinal childhood cohorts in relation to VR, IP and asthma. Epigenome-wide association analysis will identify methylation-sensitive genes that characterize trajectories of IDEAL. We posit that these phenotypes and sub-phenotypes of IDEAL contribute to the development of childhood illness and will therefore identify methylation-sensitive genes associated with IDEAL trajectories that predict endotypes and sub-phenotypes of VR, IP and asthma. We consider endotypes are likely to have distinct pathophysiology mechanisms and that epigenetic biomarkers of microbially-mediated immune programming can provide early detection as well as novel targets for precision interventions. Outcomes from PR2 will include enhanced mechanistic understanding of early immune programming, knowledge gains regarding genomic elements/pathways contributing to endotypes of VR, IP and asthma, prognostic biomarkers, and novel targets for preventive interventions.

摘要 – 项目 2 (PR2) 生命早期的微生物暴露可以塑造个体的免疫基础状态，从而影响急性反应 众所周知，感染、疫苗和对环境过敏原的反应。 影响免疫个体发育，并与过敏和哮喘发病率上升有关，但机制仍然很差 微生物群对粘膜的定植、疫苗接种和全身感染都会改变免疫功能。 个体发育，而是对早期生命中这些事件的组合相互作用的机械理解 当然，以及它们对生命早期免疫发育的编程效果（IDEAL）是缺乏的。 2 (PR2) 将研究表观遗传机制，作为理解微生物介导的编程的基础 IDEAL 的越来越多的工作强调了基因组表观遗传调控在这两种疾病中的重要作用。 疫苗接种和感染后中枢和外周免疫细胞的表观遗传动态变化。 先天细胞中基因增强子和启动子的修饰与病原体识别有机械联系 因此，这些机制将微生物环境、宿主基因组和 考虑到广泛的范围，生命早期微生物暴露是一个复杂的结构。 然而，我们在临床核心的合作者（CC；Pichichero 负责人）有 可重复地发现，一些儿童表现出保护性抗体 (Ab) 产生量低的表型 常规疫苗接种水平伴随低细胞免疫记忆（低疫苗反应者，LVR）， 其他人表现出强大的保护性免疫力（高疫苗反应者，HVR）。 容易出现反复呼吸道感染（感染倾向，IP），而其他具有类似病原体负担的人 这些表型亚组将被用作潜在变量， 通过潜在类别分析反映微生物介导的免疫编程的构造。 努力将定义粘膜和系统的轨迹（例如，我们理想中的免疫个体发育和微生物组） 元队列 (IMC) 由四个与 VR、IP 和哮喘相关的不同纵向童年队列组成。 表观基因组范围的关联分析将识别甲基化敏感基因，这些基因表征了 我们认为 IDEAL 的这些表型和亚表型有助于 IDEAL 的发展。 儿童疾病，因此将识别与理想轨迹相关的甲基化敏感基因 预测 VR、IP 和哮喘的内型和亚表型 我们认为内型可能具有不同的特征。 病理生理学机制以及微生物介导的免疫编程的表观遗传生物标志物可以 PR2 的成果将包括提供早期检测以及精准干预的新目标。 增强对早期免疫编程的机制理解，获得有关基因组的知识 导致 VR、IP 和哮喘内型的元素/途径、预后生物标志物和新靶点 预防性干预措施。