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FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00486
Keywords
macrophage; tuberculosis; infant; transcriptomics; chemokine; lung; lysosome
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship [MR/N001427/1]
- European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship
- Wellcome Trust investigator award [202865/Z/16/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [202865/Z/16/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- MRC [MR/N001427/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Infants are more likely to develop lethal disseminated forms of tuberculosis compared with older children and adults. The reasons for this are currently unknown. In this study we test the hypothesis that antimycobacterial function is impaired in infant alveolar macrophages (AM phi s) compared with those of adults. We develop a method of obtaining AM phi s from healthy infants using rigid bronchoscopy and incubate the AM phi s with live virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Infant AM phi s are less able to restrict Mtb replication compared with adult AM phi s, despite having similar phagocytic capacity and immunophenotype. RNA-Seq showed that infant AM phi s exhibit lower expression of genes involved in mycobactericidal activity and IFN gamma-induction pathways. Infant AM phi s also exhibit lower expression of genes encoding mononuclear cell chemokines such as CXCL9. Our data indicates that failure of AM phi s to contain Mtb and recruit additional mononuclear cells to the site of infection helps to explain the more fulminant course of tuberculosis in early life.
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