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  1. Article ; Online: Imaging Mass Cytometry for In Situ Immune Profiling.

    Hu, Kevin / Harman, Andrew / Baharlou, Heeva

    Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

    2024  Volume 2779, Page(s) 407–423

    Abstract: The complexities and cellular heterogeneity associated with tissues necessitate the concurrent detection of markers beyond the limitations of conventional imaging approaches in order to spatially resolve the relationships between immune cell populations ... ...

    Abstract The complexities and cellular heterogeneity associated with tissues necessitate the concurrent detection of markers beyond the limitations of conventional imaging approaches in order to spatially resolve the relationships between immune cell populations and their environments. This is a necessary complement to single-cell suspension-based methods to inform a better understanding of the events that may underlie pathological conditions. Imaging mass cytometry is a high-dimensional imaging modality that allows for the concurrent detection of up to 40 protein markers of interest across tissues at subcellular resolution. Here, we present an optimized staining protocol for imaging mass cytometry with modifications that integrate RNAscope. This unique addition enables combined protein and single-molecule RNA detection, thereby expanding the utility of imaging mass cytometry to researchers investigating low abundance or noncoding targets. In general, the procedure described is broadly applicable for comprehensive immune profiling of host-pathogen interactions, tumor microenvironments and inflammatory conditions, all within the tissue contexture.
    MeSH term(s) RNA ; Staining and Labeling ; Proteins ; Image Cytometry/methods ; Flow Cytometry/methods
    Chemical Substances RNA (63231-63-0) ; Proteins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1940-6029
    ISSN (online) 1940-6029
    DOI 10.1007/978-1-0716-3738-8_19
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  2. Article ; Online: spicyR: spatial analysis of in situ cytometry data in R.

    Canete, Nicolas P / Iyengar, Sourish S / Ormerod, John T / Baharlou, Heeva / Harman, Andrew N / Patrick, Ellis

    Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

    2022  Volume 38, Issue 11, Page(s) 3099–3105

    Abstract: Motivation: High parameter histological techniques have allowed for the identification of a variety of distinct cell types within an image, providing a comprehensive overview of the tissue environment. This allows the complex cellular architecture and ... ...

    Abstract Motivation: High parameter histological techniques have allowed for the identification of a variety of distinct cell types within an image, providing a comprehensive overview of the tissue environment. This allows the complex cellular architecture and environment of diseased tissue to be explored. While spatial analysis techniques have revealed how cell-cell interactions are important within the disease pathology, there remains a gap in exploring changes in these interactions within the disease process. Specifically, there are currently few established methods for performing inference on cell-type co-localization changes across images, hindering an understanding of how cellular environments change with a disease pathology.
    Results: We have developed the spicyR R package to perform inference on changes in the spatial co-localization of types across groups of images. Application to simulated data demonstrates a high sensitivity and specificity. We the utility of spicyR by applying it to a type 1 diabetes imaging mass cytometry dataset, revealing changes in cellular associations that were relevant to the disease progression. Ultimately, spicyR allows changes in cellular environments to be explored under different pathologies or disease states.
    Availability and implementation: R package is freely available at http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/spicyR.html and shiny app implementation at http://shiny.maths.usyd.edu.au/spicyR/.
    Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
    MeSH term(s) Software ; Spatial Analysis
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Review ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1422668-6
    ISSN 1367-4811 ; 1367-4803
    ISSN (online) 1367-4811
    ISSN 1367-4803
    DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac268
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  3. Article ; Online: Defining the landscape of human epidermal mononuclear phagocytes.

    Bertram, Kirstie M / O'Neil, Thomas R / Vine, Erica E / Baharlou, Heeva / Cunningham, Anthony L / Harman, Andrew N

    Immunity

    2023  Volume 56, Issue 3, Page(s) 459–460

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Dendritic Cells ; Epidermis ; Skin ; Langerhans Cells ; Phagocytes
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Letter ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 1217235-2
    ISSN 1097-4180 ; 1074-7613
    ISSN (online) 1097-4180
    ISSN 1074-7613
    DOI 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.02.001
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  4. Article ; Online: Mass Cytometry Imaging for the Study of Human Diseases-Applications and Data Analysis Strategies.

    Baharlou, Heeva / Canete, Nicolas P / Cunningham, Anthony L / Harman, Andrew N / Patrick, Ellis

    Frontiers in immunology

    2019  Volume 10, Page(s) 2657

    Abstract: High parameter imaging is an important tool in the life sciences for both discovery and healthcare applications. Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) and Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging (MIBI) are two relatively recent technologies which enable clinical samples to ... ...

    Abstract High parameter imaging is an important tool in the life sciences for both discovery and healthcare applications. Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) and Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging (MIBI) are two relatively recent technologies which enable clinical samples to be simultaneously analyzed for up to 40 parameters at subcellular resolution. Importantly, these "Mass Cytometry Imaging" (MCI) modalities are being rapidly adopted for studies of the immune system in both health and disease. In this review we discuss, first, the various applications of MCI to date. Second, due to the inherent challenge of analyzing high parameter spatial data, we discuss the various approaches that have been employed for the processing and analysis of data from MCI experiments.
    MeSH term(s) Data Analysis ; Flow Cytometry/methods ; Humans ; Image Cytometry/methods
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-11-14
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2606827-8
    ISSN 1664-3224 ; 1664-3224
    ISSN (online) 1664-3224
    ISSN 1664-3224
    DOI 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02657
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  5. Article ; Online: AFid: a tool for automated identification and exclusion of autofluorescent objects from microscopy images.

    Baharlou, Heeva / Canete, Nicolas P / Bertram, Kirstie M / Sandgren, Kerrie J / Cunningham, Anthony L / Harman, Andrew N / Patrick, Ellis

    Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

    2020  Volume 37, Issue 4, Page(s) 559–567

    Abstract: Motivation: Autofluorescence is a long-standing problem that has hindered the analysis of images of tissues acquired by fluorescence microscopy. Current approaches to mitigate autofluorescence in tissue are lab-based and involve either chemical ... ...

    Abstract Motivation: Autofluorescence is a long-standing problem that has hindered the analysis of images of tissues acquired by fluorescence microscopy. Current approaches to mitigate autofluorescence in tissue are lab-based and involve either chemical treatment of sections or specialized instrumentation and software to 'unmix' autofluorescent signals. Importantly, these approaches are pre-emptive and there are currently no methods to deal with autofluorescence in acquired fluorescence microscopy images.
    Results: To address this, we developed Autofluorescence Identifier (AFid). AFid identifies autofluorescent pixels as discrete objects in multi-channel images post-acquisition. These objects can then be tagged for exclusion from downstream analysis. We validated AFid using images of FFPE human colorectal tissue stained for common immune markers. Further, we demonstrate its utility for image analysis where its implementation allows the accurate measurement of HIV-Dendritic cell interactions in a colorectal explant model of HIV transmission. Therefore, AFid represents a major leap forward in the extraction of useful data from images plagued by autofluorescence by offering an approach that is easily incorporated into existing workflows and that can be used with various samples, staining panels and image acquisition methods. We have implemented AFid in ImageJ, Matlab and R to accommodate the diverse image analysis community.
    Availability and implementation: AFid software is available at https://ellispatrick.github.io/AFid.
    Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
    MeSH term(s) Histological Techniques ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Microscopy, Fluorescence ; Software ; Workflow
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-10-24
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1422668-6
    ISSN 1367-4811 ; 1367-4803
    ISSN (online) 1367-4811
    ISSN 1367-4803
    DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa780
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  6. Article ; Online: Plasmacytoid dendritic cells have divergent effects on HIV infection of initial target cells and induce a pro-retention phenotype.

    Tong, Orion / Duette, Gabriel / O'Neil, Thomas R / Royle, Caroline M / Rana, Hafsa / Johnson, Blake / Popovic, Nicole / Dervish, Suat / Brouwer, Michelle A E / Baharlou, Heeva / Patrick, Ellis / Ctercteko, Grahame / Palmer, Sarah / Lee, Eunok / Hunter, Eric / Harman, Andrew N / Cunningham, Anthony L / Nasr, Najla

    PLoS pathogens

    2021  Volume 17, Issue 4, Page(s) e1009522

    Abstract: Although HIV infection inhibits interferon responses in its target cells in vitro, interferon signatures can be detected in vivo soon after sexual transmission, mainly attributed to plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs). In this study, we examined the ... ...

    Abstract Although HIV infection inhibits interferon responses in its target cells in vitro, interferon signatures can be detected in vivo soon after sexual transmission, mainly attributed to plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs). In this study, we examined the physiological contributions of pDCs to early HIV acquisition using coculture models of pDCs with myeloid DCs, macrophages and the resting central, transitional and effector memory CD4 T cell subsets. pDCs impacted infection in a cell-specific manner. In myeloid cells, HIV infection was decreased via antiviral effects, cell maturation and downregulation of CCR5 expression. In contrast, in resting memory CD4 T cells, pDCs induced a subset-specific increase in intracellular HIV p24 protein expression without any activation or increase in CCR5 expression, as measured by flow cytometry. This increase was due to reactivation rather than enhanced viral spread, as blocking HIV entry via CCR5 did not alter the increased intracellular p24 expression. Furthermore, the load and proportion of cells expressing HIV DNA were restricted in the presence of pDCs while reverse transcriptase and p24 ELISA assays showed no increase in particle associated reverse transcriptase or extracellular p24 production. In addition, pDCs also markedly induced the expression of CD69 on infected CD4 T cells and other markers of CD4 T cell tissue retention. These phenotypic changes showed marked parallels with resident memory CD4 T cells isolated from anogenital tissue using enzymatic digestion. Production of IFNα by pDCs was the main driving factor for all these results. Thus, pDCs may reduce HIV spread during initial mucosal acquisition by inhibiting replication in myeloid cells while reactivating latent virus in resting memory CD4 T cells and retaining them for immune clearance.
    MeSH term(s) CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology ; CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/virology ; Dendritic Cells/immunology ; Dendritic Cells/virology ; Flow Cytometry ; HIV/genetics ; HIV/immunology ; HIV/physiology ; HIV Core Protein p24/genetics ; HIV Core Protein p24/metabolism ; HIV Infections/immunology ; HIV Infections/virology ; Humans ; Interferon-alpha/metabolism ; Myeloid Cells/immunology ; Myeloid Cells/virology ; Phenotype
    Chemical Substances HIV Core Protein p24 ; Interferon-alpha
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2205412-1
    ISSN 1553-7374 ; 1553-7374
    ISSN (online) 1553-7374
    ISSN 1553-7374
    DOI 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009522
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  7. Article ; Online: Optimal Isolation Protocols for Examining and Interrogating Mononuclear Phagocytes From Human Intestinal Tissue.

    Doyle, Chloe M / Vine, Erica E / Bertram, Kirstie M / Baharlou, Heeva / Rhodes, Jake W / Dervish, Suat / Gosselink, Martijn P / Di Re, Angelina / Collins, Geoffrey P / Reza, Faizur / Toh, James W T / Pathma-Nathan, Nimalan / Ahlenstiel, Golo / Ctercteko, Grahame / Cunningham, Anthony L / Harman, Andrew N / Byrne, Scott N

    Frontiers in immunology

    2021  Volume 12, Page(s) 727952

    Abstract: The human intestine contains numerous mononuclear phagocytes (MNP), including subsets of conventional dendritic cells (cDC), macrophages (Mf) and monocytes, each playing their own unique role within the intestinal immune system and homeostasis. The ... ...

    Abstract The human intestine contains numerous mononuclear phagocytes (MNP), including subsets of conventional dendritic cells (cDC), macrophages (Mf) and monocytes, each playing their own unique role within the intestinal immune system and homeostasis. The ability to isolate and interrogate MNPs from fresh human tissue is crucial if we are to understand the role of these cells in homeostasis, disease settings and immunotherapies. However, liberating these cells from tissue is problematic as many of the key surface identification markers they express are susceptible to enzymatic cleavage and they are highly susceptible to cell death. In addition, the extraction process triggers immunological activation/maturation which alters their functional phenotype. Identifying the evolving, complex and highly heterogenous repertoire of MNPs by flow cytometry therefore requires careful selection of digestive enzyme blends that liberate viable cells and preserve recognition epitopes involving careful selection of antibody clones to enable analysis and sorting for functional assays. Here we describe a method for the anatomical separation of mucosa and submucosa as well as isolating lymphoid follicles from human jejunum, ileum and colon. We also describe in detail the optimised enzyme digestion methods needed to acquire functionally immature and biologically functional intestinal MNPs. A comprehensive list of screened antibody clones is also presented which allows for the development of high parameter flow cytometry panels to discriminate all currently identified human tissue MNP subsets including pDCs, cDC1, cDC2 (langerin
    MeSH term(s) Biomarkers/metabolism ; Cell Separation ; Cells, Cultured ; Colon/cytology ; Cytokines/metabolism ; Dendritic Cells/immunology ; Dendritic Cells/metabolism ; Flow Cytometry ; Humans ; Ileum/cytology ; Intestinal Mucosa/cytology ; Jejunum/cytology ; Macrophages/immunology ; Macrophages/metabolism ; Monocytes/immunology ; Monocytes/metabolism ; Phagocytes/immunology ; Phagocytes/metabolism ; Phenotype
    Chemical Substances Biomarkers ; Cytokines
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-09-01
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2606827-8
    ISSN 1664-3224 ; 1664-3224
    ISSN (online) 1664-3224
    ISSN 1664-3224
    DOI 10.3389/fimmu.2021.727952
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  8. Article ; Online: An in situ analysis pipeline for initial host-pathogen interactions reveals signatures of human colorectal HIV transmission.

    Baharlou, Heeva / Canete, Nicolas / Vine, Erica E / Hu, Kevin / Yuan, Di / Sandgren, Kerrie J / Bertram, Kirstie M / Nasr, Najla / Rhodes, Jake W / Gosselink, Martijn P / Di Re, Angelina / Reza, Faizur / Ctercteko, Grahame / Pathma-Nathan, Nimalan / Collins, Geoff / Toh, James / Patrick, Ellis / Haniffa, Muzlifah A / Estes, Jacob D /
    Byrne, Scott N / Cunningham, Anthony L / Harman, Andrew N

    Cell reports

    2022  Volume 40, Issue 12, Page(s) 111385

    Abstract: The initial immune response to HIV determines transmission. However, due to technical limitations we still do not have a comparative map of early mucosal transmission events. By combining RNAscope, cyclic immunofluorescence, and image analysis tools, we ... ...

    Abstract The initial immune response to HIV determines transmission. However, due to technical limitations we still do not have a comparative map of early mucosal transmission events. By combining RNAscope, cyclic immunofluorescence, and image analysis tools, we quantify HIV transmission signatures in intact human colorectal explants within 2 h of topical exposure. We map HIV enrichment to mucosal dendritic cells (DCs) and submucosal macrophages, but not CD4
    MeSH term(s) CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes ; Colorectal Neoplasms/pathology ; Dendritic Cells ; HIV Infections ; HIV-1 ; Host-Pathogen Interactions ; Humans
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2649101-1
    ISSN 2211-1247 ; 2211-1247
    ISSN (online) 2211-1247
    ISSN 2211-1247
    DOI 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111385
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  9. Article ; Online: Langerhans cells and sexual transmission of HIV and HSV.

    Botting, Rachel A / Rana, Hafsa / Bertram, Kirstie M / Rhodes, Jake W / Baharlou, Heeva / Nasr, Najla / Cunningham, Anthony L / Harman, Andrew N

    Reviews in medical virology

    2017  Volume 27, Issue 2

    Abstract: Langerhans cells (LCs) situated in stratified squamous epithelium of the skin and mucosal tissue are amongst the first cells that sexually transmitted pathogens encounter during transmission. They are potent antigen presenting cells and play a key role ... ...

    Abstract Langerhans cells (LCs) situated in stratified squamous epithelium of the skin and mucosal tissue are amongst the first cells that sexually transmitted pathogens encounter during transmission. They are potent antigen presenting cells and play a key role in the host mounting an appropriate immune response. As such, viruses have evolved complex strategies to manipulate these cells to facilitate successful transmission. One of best studied examples is HIV, which manipulates the natural function of these cells to interact with CD4 T cells, which are the main target cell for HIV in which rapid replication occurs. However, there is controversy in the literature as to the role that LCs play in this process. Langerhans cells also play a key role in the way the body mounts an immune response to HSV, and there is also a complex interplay between the transmission of HSV and HIV that involves LCs. In this article, we review both past and present literatures with a particular focus on a few very recent studies that shed new light on the role that LCs play in the transmission and immune response to these 2 pathogens.
    MeSH term(s) HIV Infections/transmission ; Herpes Genitalis/transmission ; Host-Pathogen Interactions ; Humans ; Langerhans Cells/immunology ; Langerhans Cells/virology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-03
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1086043-5
    ISSN 1099-1654 ; 1052-9276
    ISSN (online) 1099-1654
    ISSN 1052-9276
    DOI 10.1002/rmv.1923
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  10. Article ; Online: Human anogenital monocyte-derived dendritic cells and langerin+cDC2 are major HIV target cells.

    Rhodes, Jake W / Botting, Rachel A / Bertram, Kirstie M / Vine, Erica E / Rana, Hafsa / Baharlou, Heeva / Vegh, Peter / O'Neil, Thomas R / Ashhurst, Anneliese S / Fletcher, James / Parnell, Grant P / Graham, J Dinny / Nasr, Najla / Lim, Jake J K / Barnouti, Laith / Haertsch, Peter / Gosselink, Martijn P / Di Re, Angelina / Reza, Faizur /
    Ctercteko, Grahame / Jenkins, Gregory J / Brooks, Andrew J / Patrick, Ellis / Byrne, Scott N / Hunter, Eric / Haniffa, Muzlifah A / Cunningham, Anthony L / Harman, Andrew N

    Nature communications

    2021  Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) 2147

    Abstract: Tissue mononuclear phagocytes (MNP) are specialised in pathogen detection and antigen presentation. As such they deliver HIV to its primary target cells; CD4 T cells. Most MNP HIV transmission studies have focused on epithelial MNPs. However, as mucosal ... ...

    Abstract Tissue mononuclear phagocytes (MNP) are specialised in pathogen detection and antigen presentation. As such they deliver HIV to its primary target cells; CD4 T cells. Most MNP HIV transmission studies have focused on epithelial MNPs. However, as mucosal trauma and inflammation are now known to be strongly associated with HIV transmission, here we examine the role of sub-epithelial MNPs which are present in a diverse array of subsets. We show that HIV can penetrate the epithelial surface to interact with sub-epithelial resident MNPs in anogenital explants and define the full array of subsets that are present in the human anogenital and colorectal tissues that HIV may encounter during sexual transmission. In doing so we identify two subsets that preferentially take up HIV, become infected and transmit the virus to CD4 T cells; CD14
    MeSH term(s) Anal Canal/cytology ; Antigens, CD/metabolism ; CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Cell Shape ; Collagenases/metabolism ; Dendritic Cells/metabolism ; Dermis/metabolism ; Genitalia/cytology ; HIV Infections/immunology ; HIV Infections/virology ; HIV-1/physiology ; Humans ; Lectins, C-Type/metabolism ; Lipopolysaccharide Receptors/metabolism ; Mannose-Binding Lectins/metabolism ; Monocytes/metabolism ; Mucous Membrane/metabolism ; Phagocytes/metabolism ; Phenotype ; Receptors, CCR5/metabolism ; Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 1/metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic
    Chemical Substances Antigens, CD ; CCR5 protein, human ; CD207 protein, human ; Lectins, C-Type ; Lipopolysaccharide Receptors ; Mannose-Binding Lectins ; Receptors, CCR5 ; Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 1 ; Collagenases (EC 3.4.24.-)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-12
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-22375-x
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