Gene expression profiling reveals insights into infant immunological and febrile responses to group B meningococcal vaccine
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of meningitis and septicaemia. A MenB vaccine (4CMenB) was licensed by the European Medicines Agency in January 2013. Here we describe the blood transcriptome and proteome following infant immunisations with or without concomitant 4CMenB, to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying post-vaccination reactogenicity and immunogenicity. Infants were randomised to receive control immunisations (PCV13 and DTaP-IPV-Hib) with or without 4CMenB at 2 and 4 months of age. Blood gene expression and plasma proteins were measured prior to, then 4 h, 24 h, 3 days or 7 days post-vaccination. 4CMenB vaccination was associated with increased expression of ENTPD7 and increased concentrations of 4 plasma proteins: CRP, G-CSF, IL-1RA and IL-6. Post-vaccination fever was associated with increased expression of SELL, involved in neutrophil recruitment. A murine model dissecting the vaccine components found the concomitant regimen to be associated with increased gene perturbation compared with 4CMenB vaccine alone with enhancement of pathways such as interleukin-3, -5 and GM-CSF signalling. Finally, we present transcriptomic profiles predictive of immunological and febrile responses following 4CMenB vaccine.
Date Issued
2020-11-19
Date Acceptance
2020-10-08
Citation
Molecular Systems Biology, 2020, 16 (11), pp.1-19
ISSN
1744-4292
Publisher
European Molecular Biology Organization
Start Page
1
End Page
19
Journal / Book Title
Molecular Systems Biology
Volume
16
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Authors. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
paediatrics
proteomics
systems biology
transcriptomics
vaccines
RNA-SEQ EXPERIMENTS
SEROGROUP-B
ANTIBODY-RESPONSES
IMMUNE-RESPONSES
4CMENB VACCINE
LIGHT-CHAIN
OPEN-LABEL
INFLUENZA
IMMUNOGENICITY
PEPTIDOGLYCAN
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN e9888
Date Publish Online
2020-11-19