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Targeted Transcriptomic Screen of Pneumococcal Genes Expressed during Murine and Human Infection

Basset, Alan; Wall, Emma; Mitsi, Elena; Deshusses, Chloe; Daly, Raecliffe; Pojar, Sherin; Reiné, Jesús; ... Malley, Richard; + view all (2022) Targeted Transcriptomic Screen of Pneumococcal Genes Expressed during Murine and Human Infection. Infection and Immunity , 90 (7) , Article e0017522. 10.1128/iai.00175-22. Green open access

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Abstract

The advent of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines led to the near disappearance of most of the included serotypes in high-income settings but also the rise of nonvaccine-type colonization and disease. Alternative strategies, using genetically conserved proteins as antigens, have been evaluated preclinically and clinically for years, so far unsuccessfully. One possible explanation for the failure of these efforts is that the choice of antigens may not have been sufficiently guided by an understanding of the gene expression pattern in the context of infection. Here, we present a targeted transcriptomic analysis of 160 pneumococcal genes encoding bacterial surface-exposed proteins in mouse models, human colonization, and human meningitis. We present the overlap of these different transcriptomic profiles. We identify two bacterial genes that are highly expressed in the context of mouse and human infection: SP_0282, an IID component of a mannose phosphotransferase system (PTS), and SP_1739, encoding RNase Y. We show that these two proteins can confer protection against pneumococcal nasopharyngeal colonization and intraperitoneal challenge in a murine model and generate opsonophagocytic antibodies. This study emphasizes and confirms the importance of studies of pneumococcal gene expression of bacterial surface proteins during human infection and colonization and may pave the way for the selection of a protein-based vaccine candidate.

Type: Article
Title: Targeted Transcriptomic Screen of Pneumococcal Genes Expressed during Murine and Human Infection
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1128/iai.00175-22
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.00175-22
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Colonization, invasive disease, pneumococcus, transcriptome
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Dept
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Infection and Immunity
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150855
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