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PubMed: 39353439 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2024.08.018
Antiviral innate immune memory in alveolar macrophages following SARS-CoV-2 infection ameliorates secondary influenza A virus disease.
Immunity 57(11):2530-2546.e13
Authors: Alexander Lercher, Jin-Gyu Cheong, Michael J Bale, Chenyang Jiang, Hans-Heinrich Hoffmann, Alison W Ashbrook, Tyler Lewy, Yue S Yin, Corrine Quirk, Emma J DeGrace, Luis Chiriboga, Brad R Rosenberg, Steven Z Josefowicz, Charles M Rice
Affiliations
- Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Epigenetics and Immunity, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Epigenetics and Immunity, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; BCMB Allied Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10065, USA.
- Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
- Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
- Department of Pathology, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA; Center for Biospecimen Research and Development, New York, NY 10016, USA.
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Epigenetics and Immunity, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.
- Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Abstract
Pathogen encounter can result in epigenetic remodeling that shapes disease caused by heterologous pathogens. Here, we examined innate immune memory in the context of commonly circulating respiratory viruses. Single-cell analyses of airway-resident immune cells in a disease-relevant murine model of SARS-CoV-2 recovery revealed epigenetic reprogramming in alveolar macrophages following infection. Post-COVID-19 human monocytes exhibited similar epigenetic signatures. In airway-resident macrophages, past SARS-CoV-2 infection increased activity of type I interferon (IFN-I)-related transcription factors and epigenetic poising of antiviral genes. Viral pattern recognition and canonical IFN-I signaling were required for the establishment of this innate immune memory and augmented secondary antiviral responses. Antiviral innate immune memory mounted by airway-resident macrophages post-SARS-CoV-2 was necessary and sufficient to ameliorate secondary disease caused by influenza A virus and curtailed hyperinflammatory dysregulation and mortality. Our findings provide insights into antiviral innate immune memory in the airway that may facilitate the development of broadly effective therapeutic strategies.
MeSH
Cells, Sars-Cov-2, Macrophages, Influenza A Virus, Covid-19, Influenza, Human, Viruses, Macrophages, Alveolar, Lung Diseases, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Related Coronavirus, Memory, Antiviral Agents, Infections, Virus Diseases
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