Bacterial infection disrupts established germinal center reactions through monocyte recruitment and impaired metabolic adaptation

Adi Biram, Jingjing Liu, Hadas Hezroni-Bravyi, Natalia Davidzohn, Dominik Schmiedel, Eman Khatib-Massalha, Montaser Haddad, Charlotte Amalie Grenov, Sacha Lebon, Tomer Meir Salame, Nili Dezorella, Dotan Hoffman, Paula Abou Karam, Moshe Biton, Tsvee Lapidot, Mats Bemark, Roi Avraham, Steffen Jung, Ziv Shulman*

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Abstract

Consecutive exposures to different pathogens are highly prevalent and often alter the host immune response. However, it remains unknown how a secondary bacterial infection affects an ongoing adaptive immune response elicited against primary invading pathogens. We demonstrated that recruitment of Sca-1+ monocytes into lymphoid organs during Salmonella Typhimurium (STm) infection disrupted pre-existing germinal center (GC) reactions. GC responses induced by influenza, plasmodium, or commensals deteriorated following STm infection. GC disruption was independent of the direct bacterial interactions with B cells and instead was induced through recruitment of CCR2-dependent Sca-1+ monocytes into the lymphoid organs. GC collapse was associated with impaired cellular respiration and was dependent on TNFα and IFNγ, the latter of which was essential for Sca-1+ monocyte differentiation. Monocyte recruitment and GC disruption also occurred during LPS-supplemented vaccination and Listeria monocytogenes infection. Thus, systemic activation of the innate immune response upon severe bacterial infection is induced at the expense of antibody-mediated immunity.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)442-458.e8
Number of pages26
JournalImmunity
Volume55
Issue number3
Early online date22 Feb 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Mar 2022

Funding

We thank Dr. Elena Ainbinder and Dr. Yael Fried from the Stem Cells and Advanced Cell Technologies unit of the Weizmann Institute Life Science Core Facility for assistance with metabolism assays. Z.S. is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) grant no. 677713, Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant no. 1090/18, and the Morris Kahn Institute for Human Immunology. We thank the Azrieli Foundation; Ben B. and Joyce E. Eisenberg Foundation; Wolfson Family Charitable Trust and Wolfson Foundation; and Elie Hirschfeld, Dr. Sarah Schlesinger, and Miel de Botton for their support. Z.S. is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Investigator Program. A.B. conceived the study, designed and conducted the experiments, performed data analysis, and wrote the manuscript; J.L. N. Davidzohn. D.S. A.G. and S.L. helped in conducting some experiments. T.M.S. helped in conducting CyTOF experiments. E.K.-M. M.H. M. Biton and T.L. advised and helped in the design of some experiments; N. Dezorella. performed TEM imaging. P.A.K. provided resources in malaria infection experiments. D.H. and R.A. provided bacterial strains. H.H. performed RNA sequencing analysis. M. Bemark and S.J. advised throughout the study. Z.S. conceived and supervised the study, designed experiments, and wrote the manuscript. The authors declare no competing interests. One or more of the authors of this paper received support from a program designed to increase minority representation in science. We thank Dr. Elena Ainbinder and Dr. Yael Fried from the Stem Cells and Advanced Cell Technologies unit of the Weizmann Institute Life Science Core Facility for assistance with metabolism assays. Z.S. is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) grant no. 677713 , Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant no. 1090/18 , and the Morris Kahn Institute for Human Immunology . We thank the Azrieli Foundation; Ben B. and Joyce E. Eisenberg Foundation; Wolfson Family Charitable Trust and Wolfson Foundation; and Elie Hirschfeld, Dr. Sarah Schlesinger, and Miel de Botton for their support. Z.S. is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Investigator Program.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Immunology and Allergy
  • Immunology
  • Infectious Diseases

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