Humanized mice reveal a macrophage-enriched gene signature defining human lung tissue protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection

Devin J. Kenney; Aoife K. O'Connell; Jacquelyn Turcinovic; Paige Montanaro; Ryan M. Hekman; Tomokazu Tamura; Andrew R. Berneshawi; Thomas R. Cafiero; Salam Al Abdullatif; Benjamin Blum; Stanley I. Goldstein; Brigitte L. Heller; Hans P. Gertje; Esther Bullitt; Alexander J. Trachtenberg; Elizabeth Chavez; Evans Tuekam Nono; Catherine Morrison; Anna E. Tseng; Amira Sheikh; Susanna Kurnick; Kyle Grosz; Markus Bosmann; Maria Ericsson; Bertrand R. Huber; Mohsan Saeed; Alejandro B. Balazs; Kevin P. Francis; Alexander Klose; Neal Paragas; Joshua D. Campbell; John H. Connor; Andrew Emili; Nicholas A. Crossland; Alexander Ploss; Florian Douam

doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110714

Humanized mice reveal a macrophage-enriched gene signature defining human lung tissue protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection

Devin J. Kenney, Aoife K. O'Connell, Jacquelyn Turcinovic, Paige Montanaro, Ryan M. Hekman, Tomokazu Tamura, Andrew R. Berneshawi, Thomas R. Cafiero, Salam Al Abdullatif, Benjamin Blum, Stanley I. Goldstein, Brigitte L. Heller, Hans P. Gertje, Esther Bullitt, Alexander J. Trachtenberg, Elizabeth Chavez, Evans Tuekam Nono, Catherine Morrison, Anna E. Tseng, Amira SheikhSusanna Kurnick, Kyle Grosz, Markus Bosmann, Maria Ericsson, Bertrand R. Huber, Mohsan Saeed, Alejandro B. Balazs, Kevin P. Francis, Alexander Klose, Neal Paragas, Joshua D. Campbell, John H. Connor, Andrew Emili, Nicholas A. Crossland, Alexander Ploss, Florian Douam

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The human immunological mechanisms defining the clinical outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection remain elusive. This knowledge gap is mostly driven by the lack of appropriate experimental platforms recapitulating human immune responses in a controlled human lung environment. Here, we report a mouse model (i.e., HNFL mice) co-engrafted with human fetal lung xenografts (fLX) and a myeloid-enhanced human immune system to identify cellular and molecular correlates of lung protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection. Unlike mice solely engrafted with human fLX, HNFL mice are protected against infection, severe inflammation, and histopathological phenotypes. Lung tissue protection from infection and severe histopathology associates with macrophage infiltration and differentiation and the upregulation of a macrophage-enriched signature composed of 11 specific genes mainly associated with the type I interferon signaling pathway. Our work highlights the HNFL model as a transformative platform to investigate, in controlled experimental settings, human myeloid immune mechanisms governing lung tissue protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	110714
Journal	Cell Reports
Volume	39
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110714
State	Published - Apr 19 2022
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

COVID-19
CP: Immunology
CP: Microbiology
antiviral responses
human immune responses to SARS-CoV-2
humanized mice
macrophage responses to SARS-CoV-2
mouse models of SARS-CoV-2
pulmonary immune responses

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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Kenney, D. J., O'Connell, A. K., Turcinovic, J., Montanaro, P., Hekman, R. M., Tamura, T., Berneshawi, A. R., Cafiero, T. R., Al Abdullatif, S., Blum, B., Goldstein, S. I., Heller, B. L., Gertje, H. P., Bullitt, E., Trachtenberg, A. J., Chavez, E., Nono, E. T., Morrison, C., Tseng, A. E., ... Douam, F. (2022). Humanized mice reveal a macrophage-enriched gene signature defining human lung tissue protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection. Cell Reports, 39(3), Article 110714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110714

Kenney, DJ, O'Connell, AK, Turcinovic, J, Montanaro, P, Hekman, RM, Tamura, T, Berneshawi, AR, Cafiero, TR, Al Abdullatif, S, Blum, B, Goldstein, SI, Heller, BL, Gertje, HP, Bullitt, E, Trachtenberg, AJ, Chavez, E, Nono, ET, Morrison, C, Tseng, AE, Sheikh, A, Kurnick, S, Grosz, K, Bosmann, M, Ericsson, M, Huber, BR, Saeed, M, Balazs, AB, Francis, KP, Klose, A, Paragas, N, Campbell, JD, Connor, JH, Emili, A, Crossland, NA, Ploss, A & Douam, F 2022, 'Humanized mice reveal a macrophage-enriched gene signature defining human lung tissue protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection', Cell Reports, vol. 39, no. 3, 110714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110714

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