Abstract
Background: Microbial interventions against allergic asthma have robust epidemiologic underpinnings and the potential to recalibrate disease-inducing immune responses. Oral administration of OM-85, a standardized lysate of human airways bacteria, is widely used empirically to prevent respiratory infections and a clinical trial is testing its ability to prevent asthma in high-risk children. We previously showed that intranasal administration of microbial products from farm environments abrogates experimental allergic asthma. Objectives: We sought to investigate whether direct administration of OM-85 to the airway compartment protects against experimental allergic asthma; and to identify protective cellular and molecular mechanisms activated through this natural route. Methods: Different strains of mice sensitized and challenged with ovalbumin or Alternaria received OM-85 intranasally, and cardinal cellular and molecular asthma phenotypes were measured. Airway transfer experiments assessed whether OM-85–treated dendritic cells protect allergen-sensitized, OM-85–naive mice against asthma. Results: Airway OM-85 administration suppressed allergic asthma in all models acting on multiple innate and adaptive immune targets: the airway epithelium/IL-33/ILC2 axis, lung allergen–induced type 2 responses, and dendritic cells whose Myd88/Trif-dependent tolerogenic reprogramming was sufficient to transfer OM-85–induced asthma protection. Conclusions: We provide the first demonstration that administering a standardized bacterial lysate to the airway compartment protects from experimental allergic asthma by engaging multiple immune pathways. Because protection required a cumulative dose 27- to 46-fold lower than the one reportedly active through the oral route, the efficacy of intranasal OM-85 administration may reflect its direct access to the airway mucosal networks controlling the initiation and development of allergic asthma.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 943-956 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology |
Volume | 149 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2022 |
Keywords
- Bacterial lysate
- OM-85
- adaptive immunity
- airway compartment
- allergic inflammation
- asthma
- innate immunity
- intranasal route
- microbial interventions
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Immunology and Allergy
- Immunology