October 2020 Publications

Analyzing the Mycobacterium tuberculosis immune response by T-cell receptor clustering with GLIPH2 and genome-wide antigen screening. Huang H, Wang C, Rubelt F, Scriba TJ, Davis MM. Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Oct. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0505-4. Epub 2020 Apr 27.

Development of a novel T cell-oriented vaccine using CTL/Th-hybrid epitope long peptide and biodegradable microparticles, against an intracellular bacterium. Tanaka K, Enomoto N, Uehara M, Furuhashi K, Sakurai S, Yasui H, Karayama M, Hozumi H, Suzuki Y, Fujisawa T, Inui N, Nakamura Y, Nagata T, Suda T. Microbiol Immunol. 2020 Oct. doi: 10.1111/1348-0421.12836. Epub 2020 Oct 5.

BCG vaccination: An update on current Australian practices. Taylor JW, Curtis N, Denholm J. Aust J Gen Pract. 2020 Oct. doi: 10.31128/AJGP-06-20-5490.

Antituberculosis BCG vaccination: more reasons for varying innate and adaptive immune responses. Prentice S, Dockrell HM. J Clin Invest. 2020 Oct 1. doi: 10.1172/JCI141317.

Circadian rhythm influences induction of trained immunity by BCG vaccination. de Bree LCJ, Mourits VP, Koeken VA, Moorlag SJ, Janssen R, Folkman L, Barreca D, Krausgruber T, Fife-Gernedl V, Novakovic B, Arts RJ, Dijkstra H, Lemmers H, Bock C, Joosten LA, van Crevel R, Benn CS, Netea MG. J Clin Invest. 2020 Oct 1. doi: 10.1172/JCI133934.

BCG vaccination in humans inhibits systemic inflammation in a sex-dependent manner. Koeken VA, de Bree LCJ, Mourits VP, Moorlag SJ, Walk J, Cirovic B, Arts RJ, Jaeger M, Dijkstra H, Lemmers H, Joosten LA, Benn CS, van Crevel R, Netea MG. J Clin Invest. 2020 Oct 1. doi: 10.1172/JCI133935.

Prioritizing infants in a time of Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine shortage caused by premature expectations against COVID-19. Senoo Y, Suzuki Y, Takahashi K, Tsuda K, Tanimoto T. QJM. 2020 Oct 1. doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcaa179.

An Overview of the Development of New Vaccines for Tuberculosis. Whitlow E, Mustafa AS, Hanif SNM. Vaccines (Basel). 2020 Oct 5. doi: 10.3390/vaccines8040586.

Targeting immunometabolism in host defence against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sheedy FJ, Divangahi M. Immunology. 2020 Oct 6. doi: 10.1111/imm.13276. Online ahead of print.

BCG vaccination of infants confers Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain-specific immune responses to leucocytes. Subbian S, Singh P, Kolloli A, Nemes E, Scriba T, Hanekom W, Kaplan G. Authorea. 2020 Oct 6. doi: 10.22541/au.160196958.83895007/v1  

Potential impact of tuberculosis vaccines in China, South Africa, and India. Harris RC, Sumner T, Knight GM, Zhang H, White RG. Sci Transl Med. 2020 Oct 7. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aax4607.

Evaluation of cytokines as a biomarker to distinguish active tuberculosis from latent tuberculosis infection: a diagnostic meta-analysis. Qiu B, Liu Q, Li Z, Song H, Xu D, Ji Y, Jiang Y, Tian D, Wang J. BMJ Open. 2020 Oct 7. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039501.

The Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Immunogenicity and Safety of the Tuberculosis Subunit Vaccines M72/AS01(E) and MVA85A. Ullah I, Bibi S, Ul Haq I, Safia, Ullah K, Ge L, Shi X, Bin M, Niu H, Tian J, Zhu B. Front Immunol. 2020 Oct 8. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.01806. eCollection 2020.

The role of immunoinformatics in the development of T-cell peptide-based vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Ortega-Tirado D, Arvizu-Flores AA, Velazquez C, Garibay-Escobar A. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2020 Oct 8. doi: 10.1080/14760584.2020.1825950. Online ahead of print.

BCG Vaccine Protection against TB Infection among Children Older than 5 Years in Close Contact with an Infectious Adult TB Case. Syggelou A, Spyridis N, Benetatou K, Kourkouni E, Kourlaba G, Tsagaraki M, Maritsi D, Eleftheriou I, Tsolia M. J Clin Med. 2020 Oct 8. doi: 10.3390/jcm9103224.

Editorial: Mycobacterial Glycolipids-Role in Immunomodulation and Targets for Vaccine Development.  Källenius G, Nigou J, Cooper A, Correia-Neves M. Front Immunol. 2020 Oct 8. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.603900. eCollection 2020.

Multidimensional analyses reveal modulation of adaptive and innate immune subsets by tuberculosis vaccines. Rozot V, Nemes E, Geldenhuys H, Musvosvi M, Toefy A, Rantangee F, Makhethe L, Erasmus M, Bilek N, Mabwe S, Finak G, Fulp W, Ginsberg AM, Hokey DA, Shey M, Gurunathan S, DiazGranados C, Bekker LG, Hatherill M, Scriba TJ; C-040-404 Study Team. Commun Biol. 2020 Oct 9. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01288-3.

Fast-acting γδ T-cell subpopulation and protective immunity against infections. Shen L, Huang D, Qaqish A, Frencher J, Yang R, Shen H, Chen ZW. Immunol Rev. 2020 Oct 10. doi: 10.1111/imr.12927. Online ahead of print.

When it’s good to have MAITs. Souter MN, McCluskey J, Corbett AJ. Immunol Cell Biol. 2020 Oct 11. doi: 10.1111/imcb.12402. Online ahead of print.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis extracellular vesicles: exploitation for vaccine technology and diagnostic methods. Mohammadzadeh R, Ghazvini K, Farsiani H, Soleimanpour S. Crit Rev Microbiol. 2020 Oct 12. doi: 10.1080/1040841X.2020.1830749. Online ahead of print.

Vaccine strategies for the Mtb/HIV copandemic. Sharan R, Kaushal D. NPJ Vaccines. 2020 Oct 13. doi: 10.1038/s41541-020-00245-9. eCollection 2020.

Activate: Randomized Clinical Trial of BCG Vaccination against Infection in the Elderly. Giamarellos-Bourboulis EJ, Tsilika M, Moorlag S, Antonakos N, Kotsaki A, Domínguez-Andrés J, Kyriazopoulou E, Gkavogianni T, Adami ME, Damoraki G, Koufargyris P, Karageorgos A, Bolanou A, Koenen H, van Crevel R, Droggiti DI, Renieris G, Papadopoulos A, Netea MG. Cell. 2020 Oct 15. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.08.051. Epub 2020 Sep 1.

Immunization with Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific Antigens Bypasses T Cell Differentiation from Prior Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Vaccination and Improves Protection in Mice. Aagaard C, Knudsen NPH, Sohn I, Izzo AA, Kim H, Kristiansen EH, Lindenstrøm T, Agger EM, Rasmussen M, Shin SJ, Rosenkrands I, Andersen P, Mortensen R. J Immunol. 2020 Oct 15. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2000563. Epub 2020 Sep 4.

Chemoenzymatic synthesis of arabinomannan (AM) glycoconjugates as potential vaccines for tuberculosis. Li Z, Bavaro T, Tengattini S, Bernardini R, Mattei M, Annunziata F, Cole RB, Zheng C, Sollogoub M, Tamborini L, Terreni M, Zhang Y. Eur J Med Chem. 2020 Oct 15. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112578. Epub 2020 Jul 15.

Immune profiling enables stratification of patients with active TB disease or M. tuberculosis infection. Duffy D, Nemes E, Llibre A, Rouilly V, Musvosvi M, Smith N, Filander E, Africa H, Mabwe S, Jaxa L, Charbit B, Mulenga H; Milieu Intérieur Consortium, Tameris M, Walzl G, Malherbe S, Thomas S, Hatherill M, Bilek N, Scriba TJ, Albert ML. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 16. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1562. Online ahead of print.

A natural polymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the esxH gene disrupts immunodomination by the TB10.4-specific CD8 T cell response. Sutiwisesak R, Hicks ND, Boyce S, Murphy KC, Papavinasasundaram K, Carpenter SM, Boucau J, Joshi N, Le Gall S, Fortune SM, Sassetti CM, Behar SM. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Oct 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009000. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Efficient 5-OP-RU-induced enrichment of Mucosal-associated invariant T cells in the murine lung does not enhance control of aerosol Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Vorkas CK, Levy O, Skular M, Li K, Aubé J, Glickman MS. Infect Immun. 2020 Oct 19. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00524-20. Online ahead of print.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis curli pili (MTP) is associated with significant host metabolic pathways in an A549 epithelial cell infection model and contributes to the pathogenicity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Reedoy KS, Loots DT, Beukes D, Reenen MV, Pillay B, Pillay M. Metabolomics. 2020 Oct 21;16(11):116. doi: 10.1007/s11306-020-01736-5.

BCG-Prime and boost with Esx-5 secretion system deletion mutant leads to better protection against clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tiwari S, Dutt TS, Chen B, Chen M, Kim J, Dai AZ, Lukose R, Shanley C, Fox A, Karger BR, Porcelli SA, Chan J, Podell BK, Obregon-Henao A, Orme IM, Jacobs WR Jr, Henao-Tamayo M. Vaccine. 2020 Oct 21;38(45):7156-7165. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.08.004. Epub 2020 Sep 23.

CD8 T Cells Show Protection against Highly Pathogenic Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) after Vaccination with SIV Gene-Expressing BCG Prime and Vaccinia Virus/Sendai Virus Vector Boosts.  Kato S, Shida H, Okamura T, Zhang X, Miura T, Mukai T, Inoue M, Shu T, Naruse TK, Kimura A, Yasutomi Y, Matsuo K. J Virol. 2020 Oct 21. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01718-20. Online ahead of print.

Fusion of Dendritic Cells Activating Rv2299c Protein Enhances the Protective Immunity of Ag85B-ESAT6 Vaccine Candidate against Tuberculosis. Back YW, Bae HS, Choi HG, Binh DT, Son YJ, Choi S, Kim HJ. Pathogens. 2020 Oct 22. doi: 10.3390/pathogens9110865.

Vaccination with Intradermal Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Provides Robust Protection against Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis but Not Pulmonary Infection in Cynomolgus Macaques. Tsujimura Y, Shiogama Y, Soma S, Okamura T, Takano J, Urano E, Murakata Y, Kawano A, Yamakawa N, Asaka MN, Matsuo K, Yasutomi Y. J Immunol. 2020 Oct 23. Online ahead of print.

Evaluation of patients with primary immunodeficiency associated with Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-vaccine-derived complications. Sohani M, Habibi S, Delavari S, Shahkarami S, Yazdani R, Shirmast P, Nazari F, Shad TM, Mamishi S, Azizi G, Anka AU, Hassanpour G, Kalantari A, Shariat M, Shafiei A, Abolhassani H, Aghamohammadi A. Allergol Immunopathol (Madr). 2020 Oct 25. doi: 10.1016/j.aller.2020.04.004.

Chemical synthesis and antigenic activity of a phosphatidylinositol mannoside epitope from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.  Zhao SY, Li N, Luo WY, Zhang NN, Zhou RY, Li CY, Wang J. Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Oct 26. doi: 10.1039/d0cc05573e. Online ahead of print.

DAR-901 vaccine for the prevention of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis among BCG-immunized adolescents in Tanzania: A randomized controlled, double-blind phase 2b trial. Munseri P, Said J, Amour M, Magohe A, Matee M, Rees CA, Mackenzie T, Tvaroha S, Bailey-Kellogg C, Maro I, Wieland-Alter W, Adams LV, Horsburgh CR, Nakamura K, Arbeit RD, Pallangyo K, von Reyn CF. Vaccine. 2020 Oct 27. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.09.055. Epub 2020 Sep 29.

Ultra-low Dose Aerosol Infection of Mice with Mycobacterium tuberculosis More Closely Models Human Tuberculosis. Plumlee CR, Duffy FJ, Gern BH, Delahaye JL, Cohen SB, Stoltzfus CR, Rustad TR, Hansen SG, Axthelm MK, Picker LJ, Aitchison JD, Sherman DR, Ganusov VV, Gerner MY, Zak DE, Urdahl KB. Cell Host Microbe. 2020 Oct 27. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.10.003. Online ahead of print.

M. tuberculosis Reprograms Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Limit Myelopoiesis and Impair Trained Immunity. Khan N, Downey J, Sanz J, Kaufmann E, Blankenhaus B, Pacis A, Pernet E, Ahmed E, Cardoso S, Nijnik A, Mazer B, Sassetti C, Behr MA, Soares MP, Barreiro LB, Divangahi M. Cell. 2020 Oct 29. coi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.062

Airway delivery of both a BCG prime and adenoviral boost drives CD4 and CD8 T cells into the lung tissue parenchyma. Kaveh DA, Garcia-Pelayo MC, Bull NC, Sanchez-Cordon PJ, Spiropoulos J, Hogarth PJ. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 30. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75734-x.

New tuberculosis vaccines: advances in clinical development and modelling. Weerasuriya CK, Clark RA, White RG, Harris RC. J Intern Med. 2020 Oct 31. doi: 10.1111/joim.13197. Online ahead of print.