Benchmarking transcriptional host response signatures for infection diagnosis
Chawla D, Cappuccio A, Tamminga A, Sealfon S, Zaslavsky E, Kleinstein S. Benchmarking transcriptional host response signatures for infection diagnosis. Cell Systems 2022, 13: 974-988.e7. PMID: 36549274, PMCID: PMC9768893, DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2022.11.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInfection diagnosisHost response signatureNon-infectious conditionsClinical applicationResponse signatureChronic infectionPathogen of interestBacterial infectionsInfectionSignature of infectionDisease signaturesDiagnosisTranscriptional profilesStandardized methodologyDevelopment of signaturesDecreased performancePan-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 variationAdjuvant