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Margitta Worm1,2, Aikaterina Alexiou1,2, Veronika Höfer1,2, Till Birkner3,4,5,2, Alexander C S N Jeanrenaud5,6,2, Florent Fauchère7,8,2, Kristijan Pazur1,2, Carolin Steinert9,10,11,2, Aleix Arnau-Soler5,6,2, Priyanka Banerjee12,2, Andreas Diefenbach13,14,2, Josefine Dobbertin-Welsch15,2, Sabine Dölle-Bierke1,2, Wojciech Francuzik1,2, Ahla Ghauri5,6,2, Stephanie Heller15,2, Birgit Kalb15,2, Ulrike Löber3,4,5,2, Ingo Marenholz5,6,2, Lajos Markó3,4,5,2, Jörg Scheffel9,10,2, Olena Potapenko3,4,5,2, Stephanie Roll16,2, Susanne Lau15,2, Young-Ae Lee5,6,2, Julian Braun7,8,2, Andreas Thiel7,8,2, Magda Babina9,10,2, Sabine Altrichter9,10,17,2, Sofia Kirke Forslund3,4,5,2, Kirsten Beyer15,2.
Abstract
Background: Peanut allergy is a frequent cause of food allergy and potentially life-threatening. Within this interdisciplinary research approach, we aim to unravel the complex mechanisms of peanut allergy. As a first step were applied in an exploratory manner the analysis of peanut allergic versus non-allergic controls.Entities:
Keywords: biomarker; epigenetics; food allergy; microbiome; peanut allergy
Year: 2022 PMID: 36225266 PMCID: PMC9533219 DOI: 10.1002/clt2.12197
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Transl Allergy ISSN: 2045-7022 Impact factor: 5.657
FIGURE 1Miami plots of the methylome‐wide association analysis. Data are comparing non‐allergic and allergic phenotypes from PBMCs under (A) non‐stimulated or (B) peanut‐stimulated conditions. CpG probes are represented by green and blue dots, CpGs within differentially methylated regions (DMRs) by orange diamonds. Chromosomes are labelled 1–22 in the center of each plot. X and Y probes are excluded. The dotted red lines indicate a genome‐wide threshold of 9E‐8. Solid blue lines indicate a suggestive line of significance of 1E‐5, where potential candidate CpGs are examined. CpGs p < 1E‐5 are annotated. CpGs in the upper half of each plot are hypermethylated in allergic individuals (+) while in the lower half of each plot, CpGs are hypomethylated in allergic individuals (−)
FIGURE 2Gut‐microbial composition of study samples (“non‐allergic” and “allergic”) in comparison to samples from Maifeld et al. (A) Relative abundance of most abundant phyla for each individual sample (left, middle) and mean per group including metabolic syndrome samples (right). (B) Violin plot of alpha diversity based on Shannon index; vertical lines indicate quartiles; color indicates sample group (C) principle coordinate analysis of beta‐diversity based on bray‐curtis distance; color indicates patient group, symbol shape indicates enterotype assignment based on Dirichlet‐Multinomial Mixture Model. Marginal density plots show distribution of sample groups along PCo1 and PCo2
FIGURE 3Frequency and function of allergen‐specific T cells in non‐allergic and allergic subjects. (A–D) Allergen‐specific T cells (CD154+ CD137+) in CD4+, and their IL‐17, IL‐4 production and IL4/IFNg ratio in non‐allergics and allergics. (E) Polyfunctionality analysis comparison of reactive CD4s after stimulation with peanut extract. Arcs are indicating expression of IFNg (red), IL‐17 (yellow), IL‐4 (green), IL‐5 (turquoise) and CXCR5 (blue), arranged in this order from inside to outside. Colors in the pie chart indicate different subpopulations, categorized based on cytokine and marker expression (legend displayed in Supplementary Figure3B). (F) Correlation of IL‐4+ peanut‐specific CD4+ T cells and peanut‐specific IgE in allergic donors (Spearman correlation). (G) Ara h2‐specific B cells staining in a non‐allergic and allergic donor. (H) Ara h2‐specific memory class‐switched (CD27+ IgD−) B cells in non‐allergic versus allergic donors. (I) Correlation of Ara h2‐specific memory (CD27+ IgD−) B cells and Ara h2‐specific IgE in allergic donors. Statistical comparison were performed using the Mann‐Whitney test
FIGURE 4Peanut induced activation of basophils and PSCMCs sensitized with serum of non‐allergic and allergic individuals as well as basophils response to peanut allergen in peanut‐allergic and non‐allergic donors. (A) BAT: Percentage of CD63+ basophils to increasing dose of peanut extract in non‐allergic and allergic donors (B) MAT: Percentage of CD63+ PSCMCs, sensitized with serum from non‐allergic and allergic individuals to increasing dose of peanut extract (C) The maximal basophil activation is significantly different between non‐allergic and allergic donors. (D) The maximal mast cell activation is different between non‐allergic and allergic donors (E) Correlation of percentage of activated basophils after stimulation with 100ng/ml peanut extract with the sIgE/total IgE ratio. (F) Correlation of percentage of activated mast cells after stimulation with 100ng/ml peanut extract with the sIgE/total IgE ratio. (G) Basophils phenotyping: Whole blood was stimulated with 1 μg/ml of peanut extract for 5 min or left unstimulated, and the basophil phenotyping was conducted using mass cytometry. Heatmap depicting clustering of the allergic and non‐allergic donors based on different markers expression in the basophils. (H) Boxplot representing normalized expression to unstimulated of three inhibitory receptors (CD300a, CD33 and CD32b) in the basophils after stimulation with peanut extract. Descriptive statistics are represented as median with interquartile range and Mann‐Whitney test was used for comparison. Correlations were determined using non‐parametric Spearman correlation. p‐values <0.05 were determined as significant
FIGURE 5Serological biomarkers upon oral food challenge. (A) Heatmap of 15 most differentially expressed miRNAs in peanut‐allergic patients undergoing oral food challenge (measured 1 hour after reaction)—orange and before oral food challenge—brown; (B, C) Concentration of protein biomarkers in non‐allergic (n = 6) and allergic (n = 6) individuals; (D, E) Expression of selected miRNA biomarkers in serum of non‐allergic (n = 5) and allergic individuals (n = 4), validated by RT‐qPCR. Only four and five samples could be analyzed in qPCR data as remaining samples were hemolyzed as it affects miRNA levels in serum due to overspill of the intracellular compartment into extracellular fluid
FIGURE 6Integrative circos plot showing significant positive (A) and negative (B) associations between individual features measured by the FOOD@ consortium. Each line between two features shows a significant association (Mann‐Whitney U/Spearman Correlation test, FDR‐corrected p‐values <0.1). The line thickness indicates the effect size (Cliff's Delta/Spearman's rho) of the respective association. The outer ring segments show corresponding feature space (color) and number/strength of associations for each feature. Detailed legend displayed in Supplementary Table S4. Median fluorescence intensity are given for the basophil markers pERK, pp38, pSyk, pAKT, CD203c, CD300a, CD63 and CD33, CDMAX—Percentage of maximum of activated basophils, CDSENS—peanut extract concentration in ng/ml required for activation of 50% of the responsive basophils. T and B cell subsets are given in percentage. ECP, eosinophil cationic protein; MAT, mast cell activation test; Tconv, conventional T cells; Treg, regulatory T cells