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Broad immune activation underlies shared set point signatures for vaccine responsiveness in healthy individuals and disease activity in patients with lupus
Kotliarov Y, Sparks R, Martins A, Mulè M, Lu Y, Goswami M, Kardava L, Banchereau R, Pascual V, Biancotto A, Chen J, Schwartzberg P, Bansal N, Liu C, Cheung F, Moir S, Tsang J. Broad immune activation underlies shared set point signatures for vaccine responsiveness in healthy individuals and disease activity in patients with lupus. Nature Medicine 2020, 26: 618-629. PMID: 32094927, PMCID: PMC8392163, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-020-0769-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdaptive ImmunityAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAntibody FormationB-LymphocytesChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansInfluenza VaccinesInfluenza, HumanLupus Erythematosus, SystemicMaleMiddle AgedTranscriptomeVaccinationYellow FeverYellow Fever VaccineYoung AdultConceptsDisease activityVaccine responsivenessAutoimmune disease activityBlood transcriptional signaturesYellow fever vaccinationSystemic lupus erythematosusClinical quiescenceFever vaccinationLupus erythematosusCancer immunotherapyBaseline predictorsDisease outcomeHealthy subjectsImmune responseI IFNHealthy individualsVaccinationTranscriptional signatureImmune variationBaseline statePatientsExtent of activationBiological basisSurface proteinsInfection responseImproving Vaccine-Induced Immunity: Can Baseline Predict Outcome?
Tsang J, Dobaño C, VanDamme P, Moncunill G, Marchant A, Othman R, Sadarangani M, Koff W, Kollmann T. Improving Vaccine-Induced Immunity: Can Baseline Predict Outcome? Trends In Immunology 2020, 41: 457-465. PMID: 32340868, PMCID: PMC7142696, DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2020.04.001.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2025
KLF2 maintains lineage fidelity and suppresses CD8 T cell exhaustion during acute LCMV infection
Fagerberg E, Attanasio J, Dien C, Singh J, Kessler E, Abdullah L, Shen J, Hunt B, Connolly K, De Brouwer E, He J, Iyer N, Buck J, Borr E, Damo M, Foster G, Giles J, Huang Y, Tsang J, Krishnaswamy S, Cui W, Joshi N. KLF2 maintains lineage fidelity and suppresses CD8 T cell exhaustion during acute LCMV infection. Science 2025, 387: eadn2337. PMID: 39946463, DOI: 10.1126/science.adn2337.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCD8 T cellsT cellsCD8 T cell exhaustionNaive CD8 T cellsAcute LCMV infectionT cell exhaustionT cell fate decisionsLineage fidelityLCMV infectionEffector differentiationAcute infectionExhaustion programTranscription factorsImmune responseEpigenetic modulationSuppress differentiationProgenitor stateKLF2InfectionFunctional stateFate decisionsCD8System vaccinology analysis of predictors and mechanisms of antibody response durability to multiple vaccines in humans
Cortese M, Hagan T, Rouphael N, Wu S, Xie X, Kazmin D, Wimmers F, Gupta S, van der Most R, Coccia M, Aranuchalam P, Nakaya H, Wang Y, Coyle E, Horiuchi S, Wu H, Bower M, Mehta A, Gunthel C, Bosinger S, Kotliarov Y, Cheung F, Schwartzberg P, Germain R, Tsang J, Li S, Albrecht R, Ueno H, Subramaniam S, Mulligan M, Khurana S, Golding H, Pulendran B. System vaccinology analysis of predictors and mechanisms of antibody response durability to multiple vaccines in humans. Nature Immunology 2025, 26: 116-130. PMID: 39747435, DOI: 10.1038/s41590-024-02036-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman bone marrow plasma cellsResponse longevityBone marrow plasma cellsAntibody responseVaccine-induced antibody responsesAntibody response magnitudesH5N1 influenza vaccineMIF-CD74 axisInvestigate immune responsesBlood transcriptional signaturesAS03-adjuvantedInfluenza vaccineMegakaryocyte activityResponse durabilityAnalysis of predictorsPlasma cellsVaccine durabilityImmune responseDay 7Transcriptional signaturePromote survivalCell-cell interactionsAntibodiesPlateletVaccine
2023
Sex and prior exposure jointly shape innate immune responses to a live herpesvirus vaccine
Cheung F, Apps R, Dropulic L, Kotliarov Y, Chen J, Jordan T, Langweiler M, Candia J, Biancotto A, Han K, Rachmaninoff N, Pietz H, Wang K, Tsang J, Cohen J. Sex and prior exposure jointly shape innate immune responses to a live herpesvirus vaccine. ELife 2023, 12: e80652. PMID: 36648132, PMCID: PMC9844983, DOI: 10.7554/elife.80652.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly innate responseVaccine recipientsPrior exposureInnate responseType I interferon signatureInfectious diseasesSeronegative vaccine recipientsType I IFN responseEarly antiviral responseNational InstituteInnate immune responseSystems immunology approachI IFN responseAdaptive immune phenotypesIntramural Research ProgramInterferon signatureAntibody titersVaccine trialsImmune phenotypeVirus vaccineNaive womenImmune responseSanofi PasteurDay 1Herpesvirus vaccine
2022
Adaptive immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 persist in the pharyngeal lymphoid tissue of children
Xu Q, Milanez-Almeida P, Martins A, Radtke A, Hoehn K, Oguz C, Chen J, Liu C, Tang J, Grubbs G, Stein S, Ramelli S, Kabat J, Behzadpour H, Karkanitsa M, Spathies J, Kalish H, Kardava L, Kirby M, Cheung F, Preite S, Duncker P, Kitakule M, Romero N, Preciado D, Gitman L, Koroleva G, Smith G, Shaffer A, McBain I, McGuire P, Pittaluga S, Germain R, Apps R, Schwartz D, Sadtler K, Moir S, Chertow D, Kleinstein S, Khurana S, Tsang J, Mudd P, Schwartzberg P, Manthiram K. Adaptive immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 persist in the pharyngeal lymphoid tissue of children. Nature Immunology 2022, 24: 186-199. PMID: 36536106, PMCID: PMC10777159, DOI: 10.1038/s41590-022-01367-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsT cell receptorImmune responseGerminal centersPrevious SARS-CoV-2 infectionSARS-CoV-2 infectionB-cell receptor sequencingTissue-specific immunityCell receptor sequencingAdaptive immune responsesUpper respiratory tractMemory B cellsT cell clonotypesSite of infectionSARS-CoV-2Pharyngeal lymphoid tissuePeripheral bloodLymphocyte populationsLymphoid tissueRespiratory tractCell clonotypesAdaptive immunityB cellsCDR3 sequencesAdenoidsCell receptorTranscriptional atlas of the human immune response to 13 vaccines reveals a common predictor of vaccine-induced antibody responses
Hagan T, Gerritsen B, Tomalin LE, Fourati S, Mulè MP, Chawla DG, Rychkov D, Henrich E, Miller HER, Diray-Arce J, Dunn P, Lee A, Levy O, Gottardo R, Sarwal M, Tsang J, Suárez-Fariñas M, Sékaly R, Kleinstein S, Pulendran B. Transcriptional atlas of the human immune response to 13 vaccines reveals a common predictor of vaccine-induced antibody responses. Nature Immunology 2022, 23: 1788-1798. PMID: 36316475, PMCID: PMC9869360, DOI: 10.1038/s41590-022-01328-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAntibody responseDay 1Vaccine-induced antibodiesYellow fever vaccineHuman immune responseMechanisms of immunityB cell activationTranscriptional atlasFever vaccineDifferent vaccinesSystems vaccinologyImmune responseMost vaccinesDay 7Cell activationInnate immunityVaccineVaccinationImmunityCommon predictorsMolecular signaturesResponsePlasmablastsInterferonAntibodiesPan-vaccine analysis reveals innate immune endotypes predictive of antibody responses to vaccination
Fourati S, Tomalin LE, Mulè MP, Chawla DG, Gerritsen B, Rychkov D, Henrich E, Miller HER, Hagan T, Diray-Arce J, Dunn P, Levy O, Gottardo R, Sarwal M, Tsang J, Suárez-Fariñas M, Pulendran B, Kleinstein S, Sékaly R. Pan-vaccine analysis reveals innate immune endotypes predictive of antibody responses to vaccination. Nature Immunology 2022, 23: 1777-1787. PMID: 36316476, PMCID: PMC9747610, DOI: 10.1038/s41590-022-01329-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAntibody responsePro-inflammatory response genesToll-like receptor ligandsBlood transcriptional profilesHigher serum antibodyPro-inflammatory responseSerum antibodiesDifferent vaccinesImmune responseImmune stateMetabolism alterationsEndotypesImmune systemVaccinationReceptor ligandsCell proliferationGene expression characteristicsActivation stateDifferential expressionTranscriptional profilesResponse genesExpression characteristicsResponseWide variationAdjuvantConsidering innate immune responses in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19
Diamond M, Lambris J, Ting J, Tsang J. Considering innate immune responses in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19. Nature Reviews Immunology 2022, 22: 465-470. PMID: 35788185, PMCID: PMC9252555, DOI: 10.1038/s41577-022-00744-x.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
AS03-adjuvanted H5N1 vaccine promotes antibody diversity and affinity maturation, NAI titers, cross-clade H5N1 neutralization, but not H1N1 cross-subtype neutralization
Khurana S, Coyle E, Manischewitz J, King L, Gao J, Germain R, Schwartzberg P, Tsang J, Golding H. AS03-adjuvanted H5N1 vaccine promotes antibody diversity and affinity maturation, NAI titers, cross-clade H5N1 neutralization, but not H1N1 cross-subtype neutralization. Npj Vaccines 2018, 3: 40. PMID: 30302282, PMCID: PMC6167326, DOI: 10.1038/s41541-018-0076-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAntibody responseWhole genome-fragment phage display librariesGenome-fragment phage display librariesNeuraminidase inhibition antibody titersVaccine-induced antibody responsesFragment phage display librariesHeterologous H5N1 strainsPolyclonal antibody responsePandemic influenza strainsAffinity maturationNAI titerUnadjuvanted vaccineAntibody titersNeutralization titersSeasonal strainsVaccine platformImmune responseInfluenza strainsAS03Antibody affinity maturationFuture vaccinesImmune memoryViral hemagglutininEpitope diversityVaccine
2016
Humoral Fingerprinting of Immune Responses: ‘Super-Resolution’, High-Dimensional Serology
Lau W, Tsang J. Humoral Fingerprinting of Immune Responses: ‘Super-Resolution’, High-Dimensional Serology. Trends In Immunology 2016, 37: 167-169. PMID: 26830541, PMCID: PMC4955921, DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2016.01.003.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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