Single cell analysis of host response to helminth infection reveals the clonal breadth, heterogeneity, and tissue-specific programming of the responding CD4+ T cell repertoire.

The CD4+ T cell response is critical to host protection against helminth infection. How this response varies across different hosts and tissues remains an important gap in our understanding. Using IL-4-reporter mice to identify responding CD4+ T cells to Nippostrongylus brasiliensis infection, T cel...

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Main Authors: Ivy K Brown, Nathan Dyjack, Mindy M Miller, Harsha Krovi, Cydney Rios, Rachel Woolaver, Laura Harmacek, Ting-Hui Tu, Brian P O'Connor, Thomas Danhorn, Brian Vestal, Laurent Gapin, Clemencia Pinilla, Max A Seibold, James Scott-Browne, Radleigh G Santos, R Lee Reinhardt
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009602&type=printable
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author Ivy K Brown
Nathan Dyjack
Mindy M Miller
Harsha Krovi
Cydney Rios
Rachel Woolaver
Laura Harmacek
Ting-Hui Tu
Brian P O'Connor
Thomas Danhorn
Brian Vestal
Laurent Gapin
Clemencia Pinilla
Max A Seibold
James Scott-Browne
Radleigh G Santos
R Lee Reinhardt
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Nathan Dyjack
Mindy M Miller
Harsha Krovi
Cydney Rios
Rachel Woolaver
Laura Harmacek
Ting-Hui Tu
Brian P O'Connor
Thomas Danhorn
Brian Vestal
Laurent Gapin
Clemencia Pinilla
Max A Seibold
James Scott-Browne
Radleigh G Santos
R Lee Reinhardt
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description The CD4+ T cell response is critical to host protection against helminth infection. How this response varies across different hosts and tissues remains an important gap in our understanding. Using IL-4-reporter mice to identify responding CD4+ T cells to Nippostrongylus brasiliensis infection, T cell receptor sequencing paired with novel clustering algorithms revealed a broadly reactive and clonally diverse CD4+ T cell response. While the most prevalent clones and clonotypes exhibited some tissue selectivity, most were observed to reside in both the lung and lung-draining lymph nodes. Antigen-reactivity of the broader repertoires was predicted to be shared across both tissues and individual mice. Transcriptome, trajectory, and chromatin accessibility analysis of lung and lymph-node repertoires revealed three unique but related populations of responding IL-4+ CD4+ T cells consistent with T follicular helper, T helper 2, and a transitional population sharing similarity with both populations. The shared antigen reactivity of lymph node and lung repertoires combined with the adoption of tissue-specific gene programs allows for the pairing of cellular and humoral responses critical to the orchestration of anti-helminth immunity.
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spelling doaj-art-bfee9113d1934b3d8063baf5f57b29052025-08-20T02:54:33ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Pathogens1553-73661553-73742021-06-01176e100960210.1371/journal.ppat.1009602Single cell analysis of host response to helminth infection reveals the clonal breadth, heterogeneity, and tissue-specific programming of the responding CD4+ T cell repertoire.Ivy K BrownNathan DyjackMindy M MillerHarsha KroviCydney RiosRachel WoolaverLaura HarmacekTing-Hui TuBrian P O'ConnorThomas DanhornBrian VestalLaurent GapinClemencia PinillaMax A SeiboldJames Scott-BrowneRadleigh G SantosR Lee ReinhardtThe CD4+ T cell response is critical to host protection against helminth infection. How this response varies across different hosts and tissues remains an important gap in our understanding. Using IL-4-reporter mice to identify responding CD4+ T cells to Nippostrongylus brasiliensis infection, T cell receptor sequencing paired with novel clustering algorithms revealed a broadly reactive and clonally diverse CD4+ T cell response. While the most prevalent clones and clonotypes exhibited some tissue selectivity, most were observed to reside in both the lung and lung-draining lymph nodes. Antigen-reactivity of the broader repertoires was predicted to be shared across both tissues and individual mice. Transcriptome, trajectory, and chromatin accessibility analysis of lung and lymph-node repertoires revealed three unique but related populations of responding IL-4+ CD4+ T cells consistent with T follicular helper, T helper 2, and a transitional population sharing similarity with both populations. The shared antigen reactivity of lymph node and lung repertoires combined with the adoption of tissue-specific gene programs allows for the pairing of cellular and humoral responses critical to the orchestration of anti-helminth immunity.https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009602&type=printable
spellingShingle Ivy K Brown
Nathan Dyjack
Mindy M Miller
Harsha Krovi
Cydney Rios
Rachel Woolaver
Laura Harmacek
Ting-Hui Tu
Brian P O'Connor
Thomas Danhorn
Brian Vestal
Laurent Gapin
Clemencia Pinilla
Max A Seibold
James Scott-Browne
Radleigh G Santos
R Lee Reinhardt
Single cell analysis of host response to helminth infection reveals the clonal breadth, heterogeneity, and tissue-specific programming of the responding CD4+ T cell repertoire.
PLoS Pathogens
title Single cell analysis of host response to helminth infection reveals the clonal breadth, heterogeneity, and tissue-specific programming of the responding CD4+ T cell repertoire.
title_full Single cell analysis of host response to helminth infection reveals the clonal breadth, heterogeneity, and tissue-specific programming of the responding CD4+ T cell repertoire.
title_fullStr Single cell analysis of host response to helminth infection reveals the clonal breadth, heterogeneity, and tissue-specific programming of the responding CD4+ T cell repertoire.
title_full_unstemmed Single cell analysis of host response to helminth infection reveals the clonal breadth, heterogeneity, and tissue-specific programming of the responding CD4+ T cell repertoire.
title_short Single cell analysis of host response to helminth infection reveals the clonal breadth, heterogeneity, and tissue-specific programming of the responding CD4+ T cell repertoire.
title_sort single cell analysis of host response to helminth infection reveals the clonal breadth heterogeneity and tissue specific programming of the responding cd4 t cell repertoire
url https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009602&type=printable
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