Host-microbe multiomic profiling identifies distinct COVID-19 immune dysregulation in solid organ transplant recipients

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses significant risks for solid organ transplant recipients, who have atypical but poorly characterized immune responses to infection. We aim to understand the host immunologic and microbial features of COVID-19 in transplant recipients by leveraging a prospective multicenter cohort of 86 transplant recipients age- and sex-matched with 172 non-transplant controls. We find that transplant recipients have higher nasal SARS-CoV-2 viral abundance and impaired viral clearance, and lower anti-spike IgG levels. In addition, transplant recipients exhibit decreased plasmablasts and transitional B cells, and increased senescent T cells. Blood and nasal transcriptional profiling demonstrate unexpected upregulation of innate immune signaling pathways and increased levels of several proinflammatory serum chemokines. Severe disease in transplant recipients, however, is characterized by a less robust induction of pro-inflammatory genes and chemokines. Together, our study reveals distinct immune features and altered viral dynamics in solid organ transplant recipients.

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2025-01-10
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Host-microbe multiomic profiling identifies distinct COVID-19 immune dysregulation in solid organ transplant recipients

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Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses significant risks for solid organ transplant recipients, who have atypical but poorly characterized immune responses to infection. We aim to understand the host immunologic and microbial features of COVID-19 in transplant recipients by leveraging a prospective multicenter cohort of 86 transplant recipients age- and sex-matched with 172 non-transplant controls. We find that transplant recipients have higher nasal SARS-CoV-2 viral abundance and impaired viral clearance, and lower anti-spike IgG levels. In addition, transplant recipients exhibit decreased plasmablasts and transitional B cells, and increased senescent T cells. Blood and nasal transcriptional profiling demonstrate unexpected upregulation of innate immune signaling pathways and increased levels of several proinflammatory serum chemokines. Severe disease in transplant recipients, however, is characterized by a less robust induction of pro-inflammatory genes and chemokines. Together, our study reveals distinct immune features and altered viral dynamics in solid organ transplant recipients.

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Broad Institute (US), Brigham and Women's Hospital (US), Boston Children's Hospital (US), National Institutes of Health (US), La Jolla Institute for Immunology (US), Harvard University (US), University of Arizona (US), University of British Columbia (CA), Emory University (US), University of California, Los Angeles (US), Oregon Health & Science University (US), Palo Alto University (US), University of California, San Francisco (US), Baylor College of Medicine (US), University of Washington (US), University of South Florida (US), University Hospitals of Cleveland (US), Yale University (US), University of Florida (US), Immunai (United States) (US), Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States) (US), Metabolon (United States) (US), Prevention of Organ Failure (CA), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (US), OU Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (US), Case Western Reserve University (US), Drexel University (US), The University of Texas at Austin (US), Stanford University (US), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
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