Project 1: Systemic analysis of the origin and tissue effects of the 68-1 RhCMV/SIV vaccine efficacy-predictive whole blood transcriptomic signature

项目1：68-1 RhCMV/SIV疫苗功效预测全血转录组特征的起源和组织效应的系统分析

• 批准号: 10723639
• 负责人: Louis J. Picker
• 金额: $ 40.6万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10723639
• 关键词: Acute; Address; Bioinformatics; Blood; CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes; Cell Death; Cell physiology; Cells; Characteristics; Chronic Phase; Cytomegalovirus; Data; Dependence; Epitopes; Exhibits; Gene Expression Regulation; Generations; Genetic Transcription; Goals; HIV/SIV vaccine; Homeostasis; Homing; Homing Behavior; Immune; Immune response; Immunity; Immunologics; In Vitro; Infection; Inflammasome; Intercept; Interleukin-15; Knowledge; Link; Lymphoid Tissue; Macaca mulatta; Maintenance; Major Histocompatibility Complex; Mediating; Memory; Modality; Modification; Molecular; Mucous Membrane; Natural Killer Cells; Outcome; Pathogenicity; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Peripheral; Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell; Phase; Population; Program Research Project Grants; Regulation; Rhesus; Role; SIV; SIV Vaccines; Signal Induction; Signal Transduction; Site; Stimulus; System; Systems Biology; T cell response; T memory cell; Time; Tissues; Toll-like receptors; Vaccinated; Vaccination; Vaccinee; Vaccines; Whole Blood; cell type; clinical translation; clinically significant; cytokine; data integration; effector T cell; efficacy evaluation; immunoregulation; in vivo; monocyte; predictive signature; programs; response; transcriptomics; vaccine efficacy; vector

Project 1 Summary Vaccination of Rhesus macaques (RMs) with SIV insert-expressing 68-1 Rhesus Cytomegalovirus vectors (RhCMV/SIV) elicits an immune response that in 59% of vaccinees can intercept and effectively arrest an early spreading primary SIV infection. The vast majority of vaccinated RM that manifest SIV replication arrest go to completely clear SIV infection, a remarkable outcome with enormous potential clinical significance. This unique pattern of “arrest and clear” efficacy has been linked to major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-E-restricted SIV- specific CD8+ T cell responses and in RMs with MHC-E-restricted CD8+ T cell responses, a protection-predictive innate immune transcriptional response to vaccination in whole blood (the whole blood protection-predictive signature or wbPPTS) that includes a central IL-15 signaling component. RhCMV/SIV vaccinated RM destined for arrest and clear efficacy manifest low baseline IL-15 signaling (IL-15 quiescence) and high post vaccination IL-15 signaling which persists through to SIV challenge. Since IL-15 is the major cytokine regulator of effector memory T cell physiology, including regulation of effector function, activation thresholds, population homeostasis, and homing behavior, these observations that correlation between the magnitude and persistence of IL-15 signaling induction and protection might reflect an IL-15-mediated modulation of the SIV-specific MHC- E-restricted CD8+ T cells, but IL-15 is not the only pathway in the wbPPTS and its unclear whether IL-15 or other components of the wbPPTS contribute to the tissue-based immune programming that enables vaccine efficacy. In this project, we seek to delineate the origin and tissue correlates of the wbPPTS and its IL-15 dependence in order the delineate the fundamental components of vaccine-induced innate immune programming required for efficacy. We will achieve this goal by determining 1) the systemic transcriptomic correlates of the RhCMV/SIV vaccine-induced wbPPTS in peripheral and mucosal lymphoid tissues and its dependence on IL-15 signaling (S.A.1), 2) the specific spatial transcriptomic response to RhCMV/SIV-infected cells in tissues and the direct contribution of vector-infected cells to the local and systemic transcriptomic responses linked to wbPPTS programming (S.A.2), and 3) the mechanisms underlying the association between IL-15 signaling quiescence and generation of the wbPPTS (S.A.3). We expect these data to implicate an underlying immune mechanism for RhCMV/SIV vaccine-induced arrest and clear protection, to provide validated tissue-based immune correlates for clinical translation, and, potentially, to lead to vaccine modifications that would increase the efficacy of CMV- based SIV/HIV vaccines.

项目1概述