Mouse transcriptome reveals potential signatures of protection and pathogenesis in human tuberculosis
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Lucia Moreira-Teixeira Olivier Tabone Christine Graham Akul Singhania Evangelos Stavropoulos Paul S Redford Probir Chakravarty Simon Priestnall Alejandro Suarez-Bonnet Ellie Herbert Katrin D Mayer-Barber Alan Sher Kaori L Fonseca Jeremy Sousa Baltazar Cá Raman Verma Pranabashis Haldar Margarida Saraiva Anne O'GarraAbstract
Although mouse infection models have been extensively used to study the host response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, their validity in revealing determinants of human tuberculosis (TB) resistance and disease progression has been heavily debated. Here, we show that the modular transcriptional signature in the blood of susceptible mice infected with a clinical isolate of M. tuberculosis resembles that of active human TB disease, with dominance of a type I interferon response and neutrophil activation and recruitment, together with a loss in B lymphocyte, natural killer and T cell effector responses. In addition, resistant but not susceptible strains of mice show increased lung B cell, natural killer and T cell effector responses in the lung upon infection. Notably, the blood signature of active disease shared by mice and humans is also evident in latent TB progressors before diagnosis, suggesting that these responses both predict and contribute to the pathogenesis of progressive M. tuberculosis infection.
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Nature Immunology
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21
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4
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464-476
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10.1038/s41590-020-0610-z
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32205882
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