Fig. 3. Chromatin accessibility to CREB1. V2 specific ADCC and risk of SIV acquisition.
a Schematic study design with time of immunization (weeks 0–12) or SIVmac251 challenges (weeks 17–27) and time of collection of ATAC- and RNA-seq samples (black triangle). b SIVmac251 acquisition. The number of intravaginal exposures before viral acquisition was assessed in n = 12 young animals relative to n = 37 historic controls (Log-rank Mantel-Cox test). c Two-tailed Spearman correlation and simple linear regression between V2-specific ADCC at week 14 and time of acquisition (TOA) in n = 12 animals. d Volcano plot showing in red ATAC-sites with significantly (FDR < 0.05) different accessibility at baseline and week 13 and with absolute fold-change higher than 1.5 (Log2 = 0.585). Reduced accessibility: 641 sites, Increased: 4026. Blue dots: sites with significantly different accessibility, but lower absolute fold-change. Green dots: sites with not significantly different accessibility, but absolute fold-change higher than 1.5. Gray dots: sites with not significantly different accessibility, but low absolute fold-change. Comparisons performed by two-tailed paired analyses. e Two-tailed Spearman correlation and simple linear regression of variation between baseline and week 13 of the intensity of ATAC site downstream CREB1 TSS accessibility (chr12:95218442-95218735) identified in Supplementary Fig. S6b with TOA in n = 11 vaccinated animals (week 13). f Visualization of the ATAC site downstream CREB1 TSS (chr12:95218442-95218735) whose variation between baseline and week 13 correlated with TOA. The ATAC site of each animal is shown at baseline and week 13 for better comparison (n = 11 animals). Animals that showed an increase in accessibility following vaccination are indicated by the red box. Animals are colored based on TOA, and those with TOA > 8 are framed. Displayed p values are unadjusted. Source data are provided in the Source Data file and at GEO Series accession numbers GSE188879 and GSE189032.
