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Sponaugle A, Weideman AMK, Ranek J, Atassi G, Kuruc J, Adimora AA, Archin NM, Gay C, Kuritzkes DR, Margolis DM, Vincent BG, Stanley N, Hudgens MG, Eron JJ, Goonetilleke N. Dominant CD4 + T cell receptors remain stable throughout antiretroviral therapy-mediated immune restoration in people with HIV. Cell Rep Med 2023; 4:101268. [PMID: 37949070 PMCID: PMC10694675 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
Abstract
In people with HIV (PWH), the post-antiretroviral therapy (ART) window is critical for immune restoration and HIV reservoir stabilization. We employ deep immune profiling and T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing and examine proliferation to assess how ART impacts T cell homeostasis. In PWH on long-term ART, lymphocyte frequencies and phenotypes are mostly stable. By contrast, broad phenotypic changes in natural killer (NK) cells, γδ T cells, B cells, and CD4+ and CD8+ T cells are observed in the post-ART window. Whereas CD8+ T cells mostly restore, memory CD4+ T subsets and cytolytic NK cells show incomplete restoration 1.4 years post ART. Surprisingly, the hierarchies and frequencies of dominant CD4 TCR clonotypes (0.1%-11% of all CD4+ T cells) remain stable post ART, suggesting that clonal homeostasis can be independent of homeostatic processes regulating CD4+ T cell absolute number, phenotypes, and function. The slow restoration of host immunity post ART also has implications for the design of ART interruption studies.
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- Alexis Sponaugle
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Center for AIDS Research, School of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Computational Medicine Program, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Center for AIDS Research, School of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Computational Medicine Program, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Center for AIDS Research, School of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
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Acheampong I, Minadzi D, Adankwah E, Aniagyei W, Vivekanandan MM, Yeboah A, Arthur JF, Lamptey M, Abass MK, Kumbel F, Osei-Yeboah F, Gawusu A, Laing EF, Batsa Debrah L, Owusu DO, Debrah A, Mayatepek E, Seyfarth J, Phillips RO, Jacobsen M. Diminished Interleukin-7 receptor expression on T-cell subsets in tuberculosis patients. Hum Immunol 2023; 84:543-550. [PMID: 37580215 DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2023.08.141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/16/2023]
Abstract
Immunopathology in human tuberculosis affects T-cell phenotype and functions. Previous studies identified impaired T-cell sensitivity to Interleukin (IL)-7 accompanied by lower IL-7 receptor α-chain (IL-7Rα) expression in patients with acute tuberculosis. In the present study, we characterized affected T-cell subsets and determined the influence of tuberculosis disease severity and treatment response. Tuberculosis patients (n = 89) as well as age- and gender-matched asymptomatic contacts (controls, n = 47) were recruited in Ghana. Mycobacterium (M.) tuberculosis sputum burden was monitored prior to and during treatment. Blood samples from all patients and controls were analyzed for IL-7Rα expression and T-cell markers by multi-colour flow cytometry. CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells of tuberculosis patients showed generally lower IL-7Rα expression as compared to controls. Concomitantly, tuberculosis patients had higher proportions of naïve and lower proportions of memory CD4+ T-cells. Notably, a subset of CD27 positive central memory T-cells (Tcm), which lacked IL-7Rα expression was enriched in tuberculosis patients as compared to controls. M. tuberculosis sputum burden was not associated with differences in IL-7Rα expression. Treatment duration and response showed no clear effects although IL-7Rα expression patterns were highly variable. These results suggested generally impaired generation of memory CD4+ T-cells and enrichment of a Tcm subset without IL-7Rα expression in patients with tuberculosis.
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- Isaac Acheampong
- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Sene West Health Directorate, Kwame Danso, Ghana
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- School of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
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- Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana; School of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany.
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Gunst JD, Goonetilleke N, Rasmussen TA, Søgaard OS. Immunomodulation with IL-7 and IL-15 in HIV-1 infection. J Virus Erad 2023; 9:100347. [PMID: 37767312 PMCID: PMC10520363 DOI: 10.1016/j.jve.2023.100347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Immunomodulating agents are substances that modify the host immune responses in diseases such as infections, autoimmune conditions and cancers. Immunomodulators can be divided into two main groups: 1) immunostimulators that activate the immune system such as cytokines, toll-like receptor agonists and immune checkpoint blockers; and 2) immunosuppressors that dampen an overactive immune system such as corticosteroids and cytokine-blocking antibodies. In this review, we have focussed on the two primarily T and natural killer (NK) cell homeostatic cytokines: interleukin-7 (IL-7) and -15 (IL-15). These cytokines are immunostimulators which act on immune cells independently of the presence or absence of antigen. In vivo studies have shown that IL-7 administration enhances proliferation of circulating T cells whereas IL-15 agonists enhance the proliferation and function of NK and CD8+ T cells. Both IL-7 and IL-15 therapies have been tested as single interventions in HIV-1 cure-related clinical trials. In this review, we explore whether IL-7 and IL-15 could be part of the therapeutic approaches towards HIV-1 remission.
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- Jesper D. Gunst
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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Yan L, Xu K, Xiao Q, Tuo L, Luo T, Wang S, Yang R, Zhang F, Yang X. Cellular and molecular insights into incomplete immune recovery in HIV/AIDS patients. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1152951. [PMID: 37205108 PMCID: PMC10185893 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1152951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART) can effectively inhibit virus replication and restore immune function in most people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, an important proportion of patients fail to achieve a satisfactory increase in CD4+ T cell counts. This state is called incomplete immune reconstitution or immunological nonresponse (INR). Patients with INR have an increased risk of clinical progression and higher rates of mortality. Despite widespread attention to INR, the precise mechanisms remain unclear. In this review, we will discuss the alterations in the quantity and quality of CD4+ T as well as multiple immunocytes, changes in soluble molecules and cytokines, and their relationship with INR, aimed to provide cellular and molecular insights into incomplete immune reconstitution.
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- Liting Yan
- Department of Infectious Disease, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China
- *Correspondence: Xingxiang Yang, ; Fujie Zhang, ; Liting Yan,
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- Department of Infectious Disease, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China
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- Clinical and Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Infectious Disease, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Infectious Disease, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Infectious Disease, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Infectious Disease, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China
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- Clinical and Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Xingxiang Yang, ; Fujie Zhang, ; Liting Yan,
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- Department of Infectious Disease, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China
- *Correspondence: Xingxiang Yang, ; Fujie Zhang, ; Liting Yan,
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Yaseen MM, Abuharfeil NM, Darmani H. The role of IL-1β during human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. Rev Med Virol 2023; 33:e2400. [PMID: 36209388 DOI: 10.1002/rmv.2400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Revised: 09/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
Interleukin (IL)-1β is a key innate cytokine that is essential for immune activation and promoting the inflammatory process. However, abnormal elevation in IL-1β levels has been associated with unwanted clinical outcomes. IL-1β is the most extensively studied cytokine among the IL-1 family of cytokines and its role in pathology is well established. During the course of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection, the level of this proinflammatory cytokine is increased in different anatomical compartments, particularly in lymphatic tissues, and this elevation is associated with disease progression. The aim of this review is to address the pathological roles play by IL-1β in the light of enhancing HIV-1 replication, driving immune cell depletion, and chronic immune activation. The role of IL-1β in HIV-1 transmission (sexually or vertically 'from mother-to-child') will also be discussed. Additionally, the impact of the available antiretroviral therapy regimens on the levels of IL-1β in HIV-1 treated patients is also discussed. Finally, we will provide a glance on how IL-1β could be targeted as a therapeutic strategy.
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- Mahmoud M Yaseen
- Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Science and Arts, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
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- Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Science and Arts, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
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- Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Science and Arts, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
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Boczar KE, Faller E, Zeng W, Wang J, Small GR, Corrales-Medina VF, deKemp RA, Ward NC, Beanlands RSB, MacPherson P, Dwivedi G. Anti-inflammatory effect of rosuvastatin in patients with HIV infection: An FDG-PET pilot study. J Nucl Cardiol 2022; 29:3057-3068. [PMID: 34820771 DOI: 10.1007/s12350-021-02830-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Abstract
AIMS This study aimed to evaluate markers of systemic as well as imaging markers of inflammation in the ascending aorta, bone marrow, and spleen measured by 18F-FDG PET/CT, in HIV+ patients at baseline and following therapy with rosuvastatin. METHODS AND RESULTS Of the 35 HIV+ patients enrolled, 17 were randomized to treatment with 10 mg/day rosuvastatin and 18 to usual care for 6 months. An HIV- control cohort was selected for baseline comparison of serum inflammatory markers and monocyte markers of inflammation. 18F-FDG-PET/CT imaging of bone marrow, spleen, and thoracic aorta was performed in the HIV+ cohort at baseline and 6 months. While CD14++CD16- and CCR2 expressions were reduced, serum levels of IL-7, IL-8, and MCP-1 were elevated in the HIV+ population compared to the controls. There was a significant drop in FDG uptake in the bone marrow (TBRmax), spleen (SUVmax) and thoracic aortic (TBRmax) in the statin-treated group compared to the control group (bone marrow: - 10.3 ± 16.9% versus 5.0 ± 18.9%, p = .0262; spleen: - 9.8 ± 20.3% versus 11.3 ± 28.8%, p = .0497; thoracic aorta: - 19.1 ± 24.2% versus 4.3 ± 15.4%, p = .003). CONCLUSIONS HIV+ patients had significantly markers of systemic inflammation including monocyte activation. Treatment with low-dose rosuvastatin in the HIV+ cohort significantly reduced bone marrow, spleen and thoracic aortic FDG uptake.
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- Kevin E Boczar
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
- School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
- School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
- Department of Advanced Clinical and Translational Cardiovascular Imaging, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, Murdoch, Australia.
- Department of Cardiology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, WA, 6009, Australia.
- School of Biomedical Sciences at Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
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Xiao Q, Yu F, Yan L, Zhao H, Zhang F. Alterations in circulating markers in HIV/AIDS patients with poor immune reconstitution: Novel insights from microbial translocation and innate immunity. Front Immunol 2022; 13:1026070. [PMID: 36325329 PMCID: PMC9618587 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1026070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
After long-term anti-retroviral therapy (ART) treatment, most human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/Acquired Immure Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) patients can achieve virological suppression and gradual recovery of CD4+ T-lymphocyte (CD4+ T cell) counts. However, some patients still fail to attain normal CD4+ T cell counts; this group of patients are called immune non-responders (INRs), and these patients show severe immune dysfunction. The potential mechanism of poor immune reconstitution (PIR) remains unclear and the identification of uniform biomarkers to predict the occurrence of PIR is particularly vital. But limited information is available on the relationship between circulating markers of INRs and immune recovery. Hence, this review summarises alterations in the intestine microbiota and associated markers in the setting of PIR to better understand host-microbiota-metabolite interactions in HIV immune reconstitution and to identify biomarkers that can predict recovery of CD4+ T cell counts in INRs.
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- Qing Xiao
- Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Clinical Center for HIV/AIDS, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Clinical Center for HIV/AIDS, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Infectious Disease Department, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Clinical Center for HIV/AIDS, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Clinical Center for HIV/AIDS, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Christensen EE, Jørgensen MJ, Nore KG, Dahl TB, Yang K, Ranheim T, Huse C, Lind A, Nur S, Stiksrud B, Jenum S, Tonby K, Holter JC, Holten AR, Halvorsen B, Dyrhol-Riise AM. Critical COVID-19 is associated with distinct leukocyte phenotypes and transcriptome patterns. J Intern Med 2021; 290:677-692. [PMID: 34080738 PMCID: PMC8242786 DOI: 10.1111/joim.13310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Prognostic markers for disease severity and identification of therapeutic targets in COVID-19 are urgently needed. We have studied innate and adaptive immunity on protein and transcriptomic level in COVID-19 patients with different disease severity at admission and longitudinally during hospitalization. METHODS Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were collected at three time points from 31 patients included in the Norwegian SARS-CoV-2 cohort study and analysed by flow cytometry and RNA sequencing. Patients were grouped as either mild/moderate (n = 14), severe (n = 11) or critical (n = 6) disease in accordance with WHO guidelines and compared with patients with SARS-CoV-2-negative bacterial sepsis (n = 5) and healthy controls (n = 10). RESULTS COVID-19 severity was characterized by decreased interleukin 7 receptor alpha chain (CD127) expression in naïve CD4 and CD8 T cells. Activation (CD25 and HLA-DR) and exhaustion (PD-1) markers on T cells were increased compared with controls, but comparable between COVID-19 severity groups. Non-classical monocytes and monocytic HLA-DR expression decreased whereas monocytic PD-L1 and CD142 expression increased with COVID-19 severity. RNA sequencing exhibited increased plasma B-cell activity in critical COVID-19 and yet predominantly reduced transcripts related to immune response pathways compared with milder disease. CONCLUSION Critical COVID-19 seems to be characterized by an immune profile of activated and exhausted T cells and monocytes. This immune phenotype may influence the capacity to mount an efficient T-cell immune response. Plasma B-cell activity and calprotectin were higher in critical COVID-19 while most transcripts related to immune functions were reduced, in particular affecting B cells. The potential of these cells as therapeutic targets in COVID-19 should be further explored.
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- E E Christensen
- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Research and Development, Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Acute Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- From the, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Petkov S, Chiodi F. Distinct transcriptomic profiles of naïve CD4+ T cells distinguish HIV-1 infected patients initiating antiretroviral therapy at acute or chronic phase of infection. Genomics 2021; 113:3487-3500. [PMID: 34425224 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2021.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Revised: 08/13/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
We analyzed the whole transcriptome characteristics of blood CD4+ T naïve (TN) cells isolated from HIV-1 infected patients starting ART at acute (early ART = EA; n = 13) or chronic (late ART = LA; n = 11) phase of infection and controls (C; n = 15). RNA sequencing revealed 389 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in EA and 810 in LA group in relation to controls. Comparison of the two groups of patients showed 183 DEGs. We focused on DEGs involved in apoptosis, inflammation and immune response. Clustering showed a poor separation of EA from C suggesting that these two groups present a similar transcriptomic profile of CD4+ TN cells. The comparison of EA and LA patients resulted in a high cluster purity revealing that different biological dysfunctions characterize EA and LA patients. The upregulated expression of several inflammatory chemokine genes distinguished the patient groups from C; CCL2 and CCL7, however, were downregulated in EA compared to LA patients. BCL2, an anti-apoptotic factor pivotal for naïve T cell homeostasis, distinguished both EA and LA from C. The expression of several DEGs involved in different inflammatory processes (TLR4, PTGS2, RAG1, IFNA16) was lower in EA compared LA. We conclude that although the transcriptome of CD4+ TN cells isolated from patients initiating ART at acute infection reveals a more quiescent phenotype, the survival profile of these cells still appears to be affected. Our results show that the detrimental process of inflammation is under more efficient control in EA patients.
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- Stefan Petkov
- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.
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Barros PO, Berthoud TK, Aloufi N, Angel JB. Soluble IL-7Rα/sCD127 in Health, Disease, and Its Potential Role as a Therapeutic Agent. Immunotargets Ther 2021; 10:47-62. [PMID: 33728276 PMCID: PMC7954429 DOI: 10.2147/itt.s264149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Soluble cytokine receptors can influence immune responses by modulating the biological functions of their respective ligands. These effects can be either agonistic or antagonistic and a number of soluble cytokine receptors have been shown to play critical roles in both maintenance of health and disease pathogenesis. Soluble IL-7Ra (sCD127) is one such example. With its impact on the IL-7/CD127 pathway, which is fundamental for the development and homeostasis of T cells, the role of sCD127 in health and disease has been extensively studied in recent years. Within this review, the role of sCD127 in maintaining host immune function is presented. Next, by addressing genetic factors affecting sCD127 expression and the associated levels of sCD127 production, the roles of sCD127 in autoimmune disease, infections and cancer are described. Finally, advances in the field of soluble cytokine therapy and the potential for sCD127 as a biomarker and therapeutic agent are discussed.
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- Priscila O Barros
- Chronic Disease Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Chronic Disease Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Yang X, Su B, Zhang X, Liu Y, Wu H, Zhang T. Incomplete immune reconstitution in HIV/AIDS patients on antiretroviral therapy: Challenges of immunological non-responders. J Leukoc Biol 2020; 107:597-612. [PMID: 31965635 PMCID: PMC7187275 DOI: 10.1002/jlb.4mr1019-189r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 11/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The morbidity and mortality of HIV type-1 (HIV-1)-related diseases were dramatically diminished by the grounds of the introduction of potent antiretroviral therapy, which induces persistent suppression of HIV-1 replication and gradual recovery of CD4+ T-cell counts. However, ∼10-40% of HIV-1-infected individuals fail to achieve normalization of CD4+ T-cell counts despite persistent virological suppression. These patients are referred to as "inadequate immunological responders," "immunodiscordant responders," or "immunological non-responders (INRs)" who show severe immunological dysfunction. Indeed, INRs are at an increased risk of clinical progression to AIDS and non-AIDS events and present higher rates of mortality than HIV-1-infected individuals with adequate immune reconstitution. To date, the underlying mechanism of incomplete immune reconstitution in HIV-1-infected patients has not been fully elucidated. In light of this limitation, it is of substantial practical significance to deeply understand the mechanism of immune reconstitution and design effective individualized treatment strategies. Therefore, in this review, we aim to highlight the mechanism and risk factors of incomplete immune reconstitution and strategies to intervene.
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- Xiaodong Yang
- Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research, Beijing, China
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- Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research, Beijing, China
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- Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research, Beijing, China
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- Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research, Beijing, China
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- Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research, Beijing, China
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- Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research, Beijing, China
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IL7RA genetic variants differentially affect IL-7Rα expression and alternative splicing: a role in autoimmune and infectious diseases? Genes Immun 2020; 21:83-90. [PMID: 31929513 DOI: 10.1038/s41435-019-0091-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Revised: 12/02/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Interleukin-7 receptor α chain (IL-7Rα) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with susceptibility to immunopathologies like autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The current hypothesis about underlying mechanisms is based on the regulation of IL-7 availability for self-reactive T cells by influencing the generation of a soluble (s)IL-7Rα variant. This assumption was mainly predicated on the well-defined IL7RA SNP rs6897932, which affects alternative splicing and causes aberrant generation of the sIL-7Rα variant with potential effects on the IL-7 serum reservoir. However, more recent studies shed light on novel functions of autoimmunity risk-associated IL7RA SNPs and characterized the largely neglected effect of rs6897932 on membrane (m)IL-7Rα expression. These findings as well as a described role of impaired mIL-7Rα expression and IL7RA SNP influence on chronic infectious diseases necessitates the reevaluation of previous findings on the role of IL7RA SNPs in immunopathology.
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Liu R, Simonetti FR, Ho YC. The forces driving clonal expansion of the HIV-1 latent reservoir. Virol J 2020; 17:4. [PMID: 31910871 PMCID: PMC6947923 DOI: 10.1186/s12985-019-1276-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Despite antiretroviral therapy (ART) which halts HIV-1 replication and reduces plasma viral load to clinically undetectable levels, viral rebound inevitably occurs once ART is interrupted. HIV-1-infected cells can undergo clonal expansion, and these clonally expanded cells increase over time. Over 50% of latent reservoirs are maintained through clonal expansion. The clonally expanding HIV-1-infected cells, both in the blood and in the lymphoid tissues, contribute to viral rebound. The major drivers of clonal expansion of HIV-1-infected cells include antigen-driven proliferation, homeostatic proliferation and HIV-1 integration site-dependent proliferation. Here, we reviewed how viral, immunologic and genomic factors contribute to clonal expansion of HIV-1-infected cells, and how clonal expansion shapes the HIV-1 latent reservoir. Antigen-specific CD4+ T cells specific for different pathogens have different clonal expansion dynamics, depending on antigen exposure, cytokine profiles and exhaustion phenotypes. Homeostatic proliferation replenishes the HIV-1 latent reservoir without inducing viral expression and immune clearance. Integration site-dependent proliferation, a mechanism also deployed by other retroviruses, leads to slow but steady increase of HIV-1-infected cells harboring HIV-1 proviruses integrated in the same orientation at specific sites of certain cancer-related genes. Targeting clonally expanding HIV-1 latent reservoir without disrupting CD4+ T cell function is a top priority for HIV-1 eradication.
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- Runxia Liu
- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06519, USA
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06519, USA.
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Goonetilleke N, Clutton G, Swanstrom R, Joseph SB. Blocking Formation of the Stable HIV Reservoir: A New Perspective for HIV-1 Cure. Front Immunol 2019; 10:1966. [PMID: 31507594 PMCID: PMC6714000 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.01966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Recent studies demonstrate that the stable HIV-1 reservoir in resting CD4+ T cells is mostly formed from viruses circulating when combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) is initiated. Here we explore the immunological basis for these observations. Untreated HIV-1 infection is characterized by a progressive depletion of memory CD4+ T cells which mostly express CD127, the α chain of the IL-7 receptor (IL-7R). Depletion results from both direct infection and bystander loss of memory CD4+ T cells in part attributed to dysregulated IL-7/IL-7R signaling. While IL-7/IL7R signaling is not essential for the generation of effector CD4+ T cells from naïve cells, it is essential for the further transition of effectors to memory CD4+ T cells and their subsequent homeostatic maintenance. HIV-1 infection therefore limits the transition of CD4+ T cells from an effector to long-lived memory state. With the onset of ART, virus load (VL) levels rapidly decrease and the frequency of CD127+ CD4+ memory T cells increases, indicating restoration of effector to memory transition in CD4+ T cells. Collectively these data suggest that following ART initiation, HIV-1 infected effector CD4+ T cells transition to long-lived, CD127+ CD4+ T cells forming the majority of the stable HIV-1 reservoir. We propose that combining ART initiation with inhibition of IL-7/IL-7R signaling to block CD4+ T cell memory formation will limit the generation of long-lived HIV-infected CD4+ T cells and reduce the overall size of the stable HIV-1 reservoir.
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- Nilu Goonetilleke
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
- UNC HIV-1 Cure Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
- UNC HIV-1 Cure Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
- Lineberger Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
- Lineberger Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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IL-7-induced proliferation of peripheral Th17 cells is impaired in HAART-controlled HIV infection. AIDS 2019; 33:985-991. [PMID: 30946152 DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000002164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Th17 cells are key regulators of functional immunity in mucosal tissues, including the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT), an important site of immune impairment in HIV infection. During HIV infection, Th17 cells are lost in large numbers from the GALT. Despite the recovery of peripheral CD4 T cells that accompanies suppression of viral replication with HAART, Th17 cells in GALT are not completely restored. IL-7 is essential for the survival and proliferation of T cells, but its signaling through its receptor IL-7Rα (CD127), is impaired in CD8 T cells and thymocytes during HIV infection. We set out to determine if decreased CD127 expression or impaired CD127 signaling may be the cause of Th17 impairment in HAART-controlled HIV infection. DESIGN Healthy and HIV donors on HAART were selected for this study of Th17 cell function in HIV. METHODS Peripheral CD4 T cells and Th17 cells were isolated using magnetic beads, then stimulated with IL-7. CD127 expression and the phosphorylation of signaling molecules was determined using flow cytometry. Proliferation was determined with a CFSE dilution assay. RESULTS CD127 was not decreased on Th17 cells from HAART-controlled HIV individuals, in fact, the percentage of Th17 cells that express CD127 was increased in treated HIV individuals. Furthermore, Th17 cells from HAART-controlled individuals, have normal IL-7-induced STAT5 and Bcl-2 responses, but vastly decreased proliferative responses. CONCLUSION This reduced IL-7 responsiveness may explain the lack of Th17 cell recovery and ongoing systemic immune activation that persists despite well treated HIV infection.
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Roider J, Ngoepe A, Muenchhoff M, Adland E, Groll A, Ndung'u T, Kløverpris H, Goulder P, Leslie A. Increased Regulatory T-Cell Activity and Enhanced T-Cell Homeostatic Signaling in Slow Progressing HIV-infected Children. Front Immunol 2019; 10:213. [PMID: 30809229 PMCID: PMC6379343 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Pediatric slow progressors (PSP) are rare ART-naïve, HIV-infected children who maintain high CD4 T-cell counts and low immune activation despite persistently high viral loads. Using a well-defined cohort of PSP, we investigated the role of regulatory T-cells (TREG) and of IL-7 homeostatic signaling in maintaining normal-for-age CD4 counts in these individuals. Compared to children with progressive disease, PSP had greater absolute numbers of TREG, skewed toward functionally suppressive phenotypes. As with immune activation, overall T-cell proliferation was lower in PSP, but was uniquely higher in central memory TREG (CM TREG), indicating active engagement of this subset. Furthermore, PSP secreted higher levels of the immunosuppressive cytokine IL-10 than children who progressed. The frequency of suppressive TREG, CM TREG proliferation, and IL-10 production were all lower in PSP who go on to progress at a later time-point, supporting the importance of an active TREG response in preventing disease progression. In addition, we find that IL-7 homeostatic signaling is enhanced in PSP, both through preserved surface IL-7receptor (CD127) expression on central memory T-cells and increased plasma levels of soluble IL-7receptor, which enhances the bioactivity of IL-7. Combined analysis, using a LASSO modeling approach, indicates that both TREG activity and homeostatic T-cell signaling make independent contributions to the preservation of CD4 T-cells in HIV-infected children. Together, these data demonstrate that maintenance of normal-for-age CD4 counts in PSP is an active process, which requires both suppression of immune activation through functional TREG, and enhanced T-cell homeostatic signaling.
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- Julia Roider
- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Department of Paediatrics, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Medizinische Klinik IV, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Department of Virology, Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Department of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Paediatrics, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Department of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Bekele Y, Lakshmikanth T, Chen Y, Mikes J, Nasi A, Petkov S, Hejdeman B, Brodin P, Chiodi F. Mass cytometry identifies distinct CD4+ T cell clusters distinguishing HIV-1-infected patients according to antiretroviral therapy initiation. JCI Insight 2019; 4:125442. [PMID: 30728327 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.125442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Recent guidelines recommend antiretroviral therapy (ART) to be administered as early as possible during HIV-1 infection. Few studies addressed the immunological benefit of commencing ART during the acute phase of infection. We used mass cytometry to characterize blood CD4+ T cells from HIV-1-infected patients who initiated ART during acute or chronic phase of infection. Using this method, we analyzed a large number of markers on millions of individual immune cells. The results revealed that CD4+ T cell clusters with high expression of CD27, CD28, CD127, and CD44, whose function involves T cell migration to inflamed tissues and survival, are more abundant in healthy controls and patients initiating ART during the acute phase; on the contrary, CD4+ T cell clusters in patients initiating ART during the chronic phase had reduced expression of these markers. The results are suggestive of a better preserved immune function in HIV-1-infected patients initiating ART during acute infection.
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- Yonas Bekele
- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Biomedicum, and
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Biomedicum, and
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Biomedicum, and
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, and Unit of Infectious Diseases, Venhälsan, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Newborn Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Biomedicum, and
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Mudd JC, Busman-Sahay K, DiNapoli SR, Lai S, Sheik V, Lisco A, Deleage C, Richardson B, Palesch DJ, Paiardini M, Cameron M, Sereti I, Reeves RK, Estes JD, Brenchley JM. Hallmarks of primate lentiviral immunodeficiency infection recapitulate loss of innate lymphoid cells. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3967. [PMID: 30262807 PMCID: PMC6160474 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05528-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) play critical roles in mucosal barrier defense and tissue homeostasis. While ILCs are depleted in HIV-1 infection, this phenomenon is not a generalized feature of all viral infections. Here we show in untreated SIV-infected rhesus macaques (RMs) that ILC3s are lost rapidly in mesenteric lymph nodes (MLNs), yet preserved in SIV+ RMs with pharmacologic or natural control of viremia. In healthy uninfected RMs, experimental depletion of CD4+ T cells in combination with dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) is sufficient to reduce ILC frequencies in the MLN. In this setting and in chronic SIV+ RMs, IL-7Rα chain expression diminishes on ILC3s in contrast to the IL-18Rα chain expression which remains stable. In HIV-uninfected patients with durable CD4+ T cell deficiency (deemed idiopathic CD4+ lymphopenia), similar ILC deficiencies in blood were observed, collectively identifying determinants of ILC homeostasis in primates and potential mechanisms underlying their depletion in HIV/SIV infection. Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) have been shown to be depleted during HIV-1 infection. Here the authors show that ILC loss is associated with CD4 depletion and gastrointestinal damage in a primate model of SIV infection.
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- Joseph C Mudd
- Barrier Immunity Section, Lab of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 4 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc, 8560 Progress Drive, Frederick, MD, 21701, USA.,Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), 505N.W. 185th Avenue, Beaverton, OR, 97006, USA
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- Barrier Immunity Section, Lab of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 4 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Barrier Immunity Section, Lab of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 4 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10001 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20903, USA
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- Clinical and Molecular Retrovirology Section/Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc, 8560 Progress Drive, Frederick, MD, 21701, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 201 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 201 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Clinical and Molecular Retrovirology Section/Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc, 8560 Progress Drive, Frederick, MD, 21701, USA.,Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), 505N.W. 185th Avenue, Beaverton, OR, 97006, USA
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- Barrier Immunity Section, Lab of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 4 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
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Expanded cellular clones carrying replication-competent HIV-1 persist, wax, and wane. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E2575-E2584. [PMID: 29483265 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1720665115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The latent reservoir for HIV-1 in resting CD4+ T cells is a major barrier to cure. Several lines of evidence suggest that the latent reservoir is maintained through cellular proliferation. Analysis of this proliferative process is complicated by the fact that most infected cells carry defective proviruses. Additional complications are that stimuli that drive T cell proliferation can also induce virus production from latently infected cells and productively infected cells have a short in vivo half-life. In this ex vivo study, we show that latently infected cells containing replication-competent HIV-1 can proliferate in response to T cell receptor agonists or cytokines that are known to induce homeostatic proliferation and that this can occur without virus production. Some cells that have proliferated in response to these stimuli can survive for 7 d while retaining the ability to produce virus. This finding supports the hypothesis that both antigen-driven and cytokine-induced proliferation may contribute to the stability of the latent reservoir. Sequencing of replication-competent proviruses isolated from patients at different time points confirmed the presence of expanded clones and demonstrated that while some clones harboring replication-competent virus persist longitudinally on a scale of years, others wax and wane. A similar pattern is observed in longitudinal sampling of residual viremia in patients. The observed patterns are not consistent with a continuous, cell-autonomous, proliferative process related to the HIV-1 integration site. The fact that the latent reservoir can be maintained, in part, by cellular proliferation without viral reactivation poses challenges to cure.
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Reduced IL-7R T Cell Expression and Increased Plasma sCD127 in Late Presenting HIV-Infected Individuals. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2017; 74:81-90. [PMID: 27509242 DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000001153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Late presentation of HIV infection is associated with reduced chance of optimal immune recovery after initiating combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). Interleukin-7 (IL-7) and the corresponding receptor, IL-7 receptor (IL-7R) made up of CD127 and CD132, are crucial for T cell homeostasis. This study aimed to describe IL-7R and IL-7 before and after initiation of cART in late presenting HIV-infected individuals, and the impact on immune recovery and T cell subset distribution after initiation of cART. METHODS A total of 100 HIV-infected individuals initiating cART were included in a prospective study. Samples were collected at baseline and after 6, 12, and 24 months of cART. Proportion and expression {[median fluorescence intensity (MFI)]} of IL-7R on T cells, and plasma concentrations of soluble CD127 (sCD127) and IL-7 were determined. RESULTS The IL-7R expression was reduced in late presenters with CD4 cell count <200 cells per microliter compared with nonlate presenters and healthy controls as demonstrated by lower proportion of CD127 + CD132 + T cells and lower CD127 MFI. In contrast, plasma sCD127 was higher. These differences were partly reversed after suppressive cART. Interestingly, the CD127 MFI on CD4 T cells was found to be a predictor of increased thymic output after 24 months of suppressive cART. CONCLUSIONS Severely altered IL-7R expression was found in late presenters, and associations between IL-7R expression and thymic output after 24 months of suppressive cART indicate an impact of a IL-7 response for the long term de novo production from thymus.
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Aberrant plasma IL-7 and soluble IL-7 receptor levels indicate impaired T-cell response to IL-7 in human tuberculosis. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13:e1006425. [PMID: 28582466 PMCID: PMC5472333 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2017] [Revised: 06/15/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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T-cell proliferation and generation of protective memory during chronic infections depend on Interleukin-7 (IL-7) availability and receptivity. Regulation of IL-7 receptor (IL-7R) expression and signalling are key for IL-7-modulated T-cell functions. Aberrant expression of soluble (s) and membrane-associated (m) IL-7R molecules is associated with development of autoimmunity and immune failure in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients. Here we investigated the role of IL-7/IL-7R on T-cell immunity in human tuberculosis. We performed two independent case-control studies comparing tuberculosis patients and healthy contacts. This was combined with follow-up examinations for a subgroup of tuberculosis patients under therapy and recovery. Blood plasma and T cells were characterised for IL-7/sIL-7R and mIL-7R expression, respectively. IL-7-dependent T-cell functions were determined by analysing STAT5 phosphorylation, antigen-specific cytokine release and by analysing markers of T-cell exhaustion and inflammation. Tuberculosis patients had lower soluble IL-7R (p < 0.001) and higher IL-7 (p < 0.001) plasma concentrations as compared to healthy contacts. Both markers were largely independent and aberrant expression normalised during therapy and recovery. Furthermore, tuberculosis patients had lower levels of mIL-7R in T cells caused by post-transcriptional mechanisms. Functional in vitro tests indicated diminished IL-7-induced STAT5 phosphorylation and impaired IL-7-promoted cytokine release of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4+ T cells from tuberculosis patients. Finally, we determined T-cell exhaustion markers PD-1 and SOCS3 and detected increased SOCS3 expression during therapy. Only moderate correlation of PD-1 and SOCS3 with IL-7 expression was observed. We conclude that diminished soluble IL-7R and increased IL-7 plasma concentrations, as well as decreased membrane-associated IL-7R expression in T cells, reflect impaired T-cell sensitivity to IL-7 in tuberculosis patients. These findings show similarities to pathognomonic features of impaired T-cell functions and immune failure described in AIDS patients. IL-7 is important for the development and homeostasis of T cells and promotes antigen-specific T-cell responses. Aberrant expression of plasma IL-7 and soluble IL-7R are found in autoimmune diseases and chronic viral infections. In AIDS patients—especially those who fail to reconstitute T-cell numbers during therapy—impaired IL-7-promoted T-cell functions indicated T-cell exhaustion/senescence. In order to evaluate the potential impact of IL-7 on tuberculosis, we characterised various parameters involved in the IL-7-response of tuberculosis patients and healthy contacts. Despite IL-7 being available at higher plasma levels among tuberculosis patients, the T-cell response to IL-7 was impaired when compared to healthy contacts. Soluble IL-7R levels were aberrantly low in plasma during acute tuberculosis but did not account for impaired IL-7 usage. Chronic inflammation in tuberculosis patients—reflected by increased IL-6 plasma levels—did not account for dysfunctional T-cell responses and analysed T-cell exhaustion markers were only moderately correlated. Our findings demonstrate that availability of IL-7 alone is not sufficient to promote protective T-cell immunity against tuberculosis. We describe aberrant IL-7/soluble IL-7R expression and impaired IL-7-mediated T-cell functions in tuberculosis patients with similarities and differences to described IL-7 dysregulation seen in patients with AIDS.
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Chiodi F, Bekele Y, Lantto Graham R, Nasi A. IL-7 and CD4 T Follicular Helper Cells in HIV-1 Infection. Front Immunol 2017; 8:451. [PMID: 28473831 PMCID: PMC5397507 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2016] [Accepted: 03/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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IL-7 was previously shown to upregulate the expression of molecules important for interaction of CD4+ T cells with B cells. It is poorly studied whether IL-7 has a role in the biology of T follicular helper (Tfh) cells and whether IL-7 dysregulates the expression of B-cell costimulatory molecules on Tfh cells. We review the literature and provide arguments in favor of IL-7 being involved in the biology of human Tfh cells. The CD127 IL-7 receptor is expressed on circulating Tfh and non-Tfh cells, and we show that IL-7, but not IL-6 or IL-21, upregulates the expression of CD70 and PD-1 on these cells. We conclude that IL-7, a cytokine whose level is elevated during HIV-1 infection, may have a role in increased expression of B cell costimulatory molecules on Tfh cells and lead to abnormal B cell differentiation.
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- Francesca Chiodi
- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Tanaskovic S, Fernandez S, Saraswati H, Yunihastuti E, Gani RA, Djauzi S, Price P. Naive and Memory CD4⁺ T Cells Are Differentially Affected in Indonesian HIV Patients Responding to ART. Viral Immunol 2016; 29:176-83. [PMID: 27035638 DOI: 10.1089/vim.2015.0108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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While most HIV patients beginning antiretroviral therapy (ART) with advanced immunodeficiency recover CD4(+) T cell numbers, the profiles and functions of the newly acquired CD4(+) T cells have not been monitored in a resource-limiting setting. In this study, HIV patients (n = 31) from Jakarta, Indonesia, were studied 9 months after commencing ART with nadir CD4(+) T cell counts <200 cells/μL. All patients were hepatitis C virus (HCV) seropositive, but asymptomatic. Twelve healthy age-matched controls from the same community were included. CD4(+) T cell subsets, immune activation (HLA-DR), and expression of the interleukin (IL)-7 receptor α chain (CD127) were quantitated by flow cytometry. Proliferation (expression of Ki67) was measured following in vitro stimulation (5 days) with anti-CD3 antibody or IL-7. Fifty-two percent of patients recovered CD4(+) T cell counts >200 cells/μL over 12 months. At 9 months, patients had fewer naive and CD31(+)-naive CD4(+) T cells, more effector memory (EM) CD4(+) T cells, and higher HLA-DR expression on CD4(+) T cells than controls. CD127 expression was low on all CD4(+) T cell subsets except for naive cells, where it was similar to controls. Similarly, after anti-CD3 antibody or IL-7 stimulation, patients had lower Ki67 expression than controls in all subsets, except naive CD4(+) T cells where it was normal or elevated. Overall in the first year of ART, patients had fewer naive and more EM CD4(+) T cells. Ongoing immune activation and, antigen-driven stimulation and differentiation of naive T cells may reduce the naive T cell pool, while driving the maturation and accumulation of memory cells with proliferative defects.
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- Sara Tanaskovic
- 1 School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia , Perth, Australia
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- 1 School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia , Perth, Australia
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- 2 Virology and Cancer Pathobiology Research Centre for Health Service, University of Indonesia , Jakarta, Indonesia
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- 3 School of Medicine, University of Indonesia/Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital , Jakarta, Indonesia
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- 3 School of Medicine, University of Indonesia/Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital , Jakarta, Indonesia
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- 3 School of Medicine, University of Indonesia/Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital , Jakarta, Indonesia
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- 3 School of Medicine, University of Indonesia/Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital , Jakarta, Indonesia .,4 School of Biomedical Science, Curtin University of Technology , Perth, Australia
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Gelpi M, Hartling HJ, Thorsteinsson K, Gerstoft J, Ullum H, Nielsen SD. Immune recovery in acute and chronic HIV infection and the impact of thymic stromal lymphopoietin. BMC Infect Dis 2016; 16:591. [PMID: 27769179 PMCID: PMC5073883 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-1930-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Symptomatic primary HIV infection is associated with an adverse prognosis, and immediate initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is recommended. However, little is known about immunological predictors of immune recovery. Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin (TSLP) is a cytokine that promotes CD4+ T cells homeostatic polyclonal proliferation and regulates Th17/regulatory T-cell balance, immunological functions known to be affected during primary HIV infection. The aim of this study was to describe immune recovery in primary and chronic HIV infection and possible impact of TSLP. Methods Prospective study including 100 HIV-infected individuals (primary HIV infection (N = 14), early presenters (>350 CD4+ T cells/μL, N = 42), late presenters without advanced disease (200–350 CD4+ T cells/μL, N = 24) and with advanced disease (<200 CD4+ T cells/μL, N = 20) and). Immune recovery was defined as increase in CD4+ T cells count from baseline to a given time of follow-up. Plasma TSLP was determined using ELISA and CD4+ T cell subpopulations (recent thymic emigrants, naïve and memory cells) were measured using flow cytometry at baseline and after 6, 12 and 24 months of cART. Results Immune recovery was comparable in all groups, and no differences in immune homeostasis were found between primary HIV infection and early presenters, whereas differences in absolute counts and proportions of CD4+ T cell subpopulations were found between primary HIV infection and late presenters. TSLP was elevated in primary HIV infection at baseline and after 24 months of cART. Interestingly, TSLP was negatively associated with proportion of recent thymic emigrants (correlation coefficient −0.60, p = 0.030). TSLP was not associated with immune recovery in primary HIV infection. Conclusions Immune recovery was comparable in primary and chronic HIV infection whereas differences in absolute counts and proportions of CD4+ T cell subpopulations were found between primary HIV infection and late presenters supporting early initiation of cART. Higher plasma TSLP was found in primary HIV infection, and TSLP was associated with lower thymic output, but not with immune recovery. These findings indicate a possible role of TSLP in immune homeostasis in HIV infection but do not support TSLP to affect immune recovery in primary HIV infection.
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- Marco Gelpi
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Viro-Immunology Research Unit, University Hospital of Copenhagen Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Viro-Immunology Research Unit, University Hospital of Copenhagen Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Infectious Disease, University Hospital of Copenhagen Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Viro-Immunology Research Unit, University Hospital of Copenhagen Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Copenhagen Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Viro-Immunology Research Unit, University Hospital of Copenhagen Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Transcriptional regulation of the IL-7Rα gene by dexamethasone and IL-7 in primary human CD8 T cells. Immunogenetics 2016; 69:13-27. [PMID: 27541597 DOI: 10.1007/s00251-016-0948-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 08/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Interleukin-7 is essential for the development and maintenance of T cells, and the expression of the IL-7 receptor is tightly regulated at every stage of the T cell's lifespan. In mature CD8 T cells, IL-7 plays important roles in cell survival, peripheral homeostasis, and cytolytic function. The IL-7 receptor alpha-chain (CD127) is expressed at high levels on naïve and memory cells, but it is rapidly downregulated upon IL-7 stimulation. In this study, we illustrate the dynamicity of the CD127 promoter and show that it possesses positive as well as negative regulatory sites involved in upregulating and downregulating CD127 expression, respectively. We cloned the CD127 gene promoter and identified key cis-regulatory elements required for CD127 expression in mature resting primary CD8 T cells. The core promoter necessary for efficient basal transcription is contained within the first 262 bp upstream of the TATA box. Additional positive regulatory elements are located between -1200 and -2406 bp, conferring a further 2- to 4-fold enhancement in gene expression. While transcription of the CD127 gene is increased directly through a glucocorticoid response element located between -2255 and -2269 bp upstream of the TATA box, we identified a suppressive region that lies upstream of 1760 bp from the TATA box, which is likely involved in the IL-7-mediated suppression of CD127 transcription. Finally, we illustrated IL-7 does not bias alternative splicing of CD127 transcripts in primary human CD8 T cells.
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Inflammation Perturbs the IL-7 Axis, Promoting Senescence and Exhaustion that Broadly Characterize Immune Failure in Treated HIV Infection. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2016; 71:483-92. [PMID: 26627102 DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000000913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND HIV-infected patients who fail to normalize CD4 T cells despite suppressive antiretroviral therapy have impaired immune homeostasis: diminished naive T-cell numbers, elevated T-cell turnover, senescence, and inflammation. METHODS Blood samples from immune failures (n = 60), immune successes (n = 20), and healthy controls (n = 20) were examined for plasma interleukin (IL)-7 levels, for cellular expression of the IL-7Rα chain (CD127), for the exhaustion and senescence markers programed death 1 (PD-1) and CD57, and for the survival factor Bcl2. Because both inflammatory and homeostatic cytokines can induce T-cell cycling, we also examined the effects of these mediators on exhaustion and senescence markers. RESULTS Plasma levels of IL-7 were elevated and both CD4 and CD8 T-cell CD127 expression was decreased in immune failure. Plasma levels of IL-7 correlated directly with naive CD4 T-cell counts in immune success and inversely with T-cell cycling (Ki67) in healthy controls and immune success, but not in immune failure. CD4 T-cell density of PD-1 was increased and Bcl2+ CD4 T cells were decreased in immune failure but not in immune success, whereas the proportion of T cells expressing CD57 was increased in immune failure. PD-1 and CD57 were induced on CD4 but not CD8 T cells by stimulation in vitro with inflammatory IL-1β or homeostatic (IL-7) cytokines. CONCLUSIONS Perturbation of the IL-7/IL-7 receptor axis, increased T-cell turnover, and increased senescence may reflect dysregulated responses to both homeostatic and inflammatory cytokines in immune failure patients.
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Suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) proteins are induced by IL-7 and target surface CD127 protein for degradation in human CD8 T cells. Cell Immunol 2016; 306-307:41-52. [PMID: 27423467 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2016.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2016] [Revised: 07/02/2016] [Accepted: 07/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Given the essential role interleukin (IL)-7 plays in T-cell survival, homeostasis and function, it is no surprise expression of the IL-7 receptor alpha-chain (CD127) is tightly regulated. We have previously shown IL-7 binding to its receptor on the surface of CD8 T cells leads to both suppression of CD127 gene transcription and loss of existing CD127 protein from the cell membrane. Indeed upon binding IL-7, CD127 is rapidly internalized into early endosomes where phosphorylation by JAK targets the receptor for degradation. We now show that IL-7 induces the expression of suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) proteins CIS, SOCS1 and SOCS2 through the JAK/STAT-5 pathway and that CIS and SOCS2 specifically interact with CD127 in early endosomes and direct the receptor complex to the proteasome for degradation. These results illustrate how expression of the IL-7 receptor and thus IL-7 signaling is modulated in human CD8 T cells by a negative feedback mechanism dependent on members of the SOCS family of proteins.
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Amu S, Lantto Graham R, Bekele Y, Nasi A, Bengtsson C, Rethi B, Sorial S, Meini G, Zazzi M, Hejdeman B, Chiodi F. Dysfunctional phenotypes of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells are comparable in patients initiating ART during early or chronic HIV-1 infection. Medicine (Baltimore) 2016; 95:e3738. [PMID: 27281071 PMCID: PMC4907649 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000003738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is becoming a common clinical practice according to current guidelines recommending treatment to all HIV-1-infected patients. However, it is not known whether ART initiated during the early phase of infection prevents the establishment of abnormal phenotypic features previously reported in CD4+ and CD8+T cells during chronic HIV-1 infection. In this cross-sectional study, blood specimens were obtained from 17 HIV-1-infected patients who began ART treatment shortly after infection (early ART [EA]), 17 age-matched HIV-1-infected patients who started ART during chronic phase of infection (late ART [LA]), and 25 age-matched non-HIV-1-infected controls. At collection of specimens, patients in EA and LA groups had received ART for comparable periods of time. Total HIV-1 DNA was measured in white blood cells by quantitative PCR. The concentration of 9 inflammatory parameters and 1 marker of fibrosis, including sCD14 and β-2 microglobulin, was measured in plasma. Furthermore, expression of markers of abnormal immune activation (human leukocyte antigen - antigen D related [HLA-DR] and CD38), exhaustion (programmed death 1, CD28, CD57) and terminal differentiation (CD127) was measured on CD4+ and CD8+T cells. T-cell proliferation was measured through Ki67 expression. The copies of total HIV-1 DNA in blood were significantly lower (P = 0.009) in EA compared with that in LA group. Only the expression of HLA-DR on naïve CD4+ T cells distinguished EA from LA, whereas expression of 3 surface markers distinguished T-cell populations of HIV-1-infected patients from controls. These included HLA-DR distinguishing CD4+ T cells from EA compared with controls, and also CD38 and CD127 on CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, respectively, distinguishing both groups of patients from controls. The sCD14 levels were significantly higher in EA patients, and β-2 microglobulin levels were higher in LA group compared with that in controls. Our results demonstrate an equivalent abnormal expression of activation (HLA-DR and CD38 on CD4+ T cells) and terminal differentiation (CD127 on CD8+ T cells) markers in T cells from both EA and LA patients. The size of total HIV-1 DNA copies in blood of EA was lower compared with LA patients. These findings suggest that some abnormalities taking place in the T-cell compartment during primary HIV-1 infection may not be corrected by early ART.
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- Sylvie Amu
- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
- Department of Medicine at Solna
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet and Unit of Infectious Diseases/Venhälsan, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology and Virology, Policlinico S. Maria alle Scotte, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Microbiology and Virology, Policlinico S. Maria alle Scotte, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet and Unit of Infectious Diseases/Venhälsan, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
- ∗Correspondence: Francesca Chiodi, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Nobels väg 16, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden (e-mail: )
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Regulation of CD8+ T-cell cytotoxicity in HIV-1 infection. Cell Immunol 2015; 298:126-33. [PMID: 26520669 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2015.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2015] [Revised: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 10/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Understanding the mechanisms involved in cellular immune responses against control of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is key to development of effective immunotherapeutic strategies against viral proliferation. Clear insights into the regulation of cytotoxic CD8+ T cells is crucial to development of effective immunotherapeutic strategies due to their unique ability to eliminate virus-infected cells during the course of infection. Here, we reviewed the roles of transcription factors, co-inhibitory molecules and regulatory cytokines following HIV infection and their potential significance in regulating the cytotoxic potentials of CD8+ T cells.
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Thome JJC, Yudanin N, Ohmura Y, Kubota M, Grinshpun B, Sathaliyawala T, Kato T, Lerner H, Shen Y, Farber DL. Spatial map of human T cell compartmentalization and maintenance over decades of life. Cell 2015; 159:814-28. [PMID: 25417158 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 409] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2014] [Revised: 08/08/2014] [Accepted: 09/24/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Mechanisms for human memory T cell differentiation and maintenance have largely been inferred from studies of peripheral blood, though the majority of T cells are found in lymphoid and mucosal sites. We present here a multidimensional, quantitative analysis of human T cell compartmentalization and maintenance over six decades of life in blood, lymphoid, and mucosal tissues obtained from 56 individual organ donors. Our results reveal that the distribution and tissue residence of naive, central, and effector memory, and terminal effector subsets is contingent on both their differentiation state and tissue localization. Moreover, T cell homeostasis driven by cytokine or TCR-mediated signals is different in CD4+ or CD8+ T cell lineages, varies with their differentiation stage and tissue localization, and cannot be inferred from blood. Our data provide an unprecedented spatial and temporal map of human T cell compartmentalization and maintenance, supporting distinct pathways for human T cell fate determination and homeostasis.
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- Joseph J C Thome
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, and the JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- The New York Organ Donor Network (NYODN), New York, NY 10001, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, and the JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Yin Y, Zhang S, Luo H, Zhang X, Geng G, Li J, Guo X, Cai W, Li L, Liu C, Zhang H. Interleukin 7 up-regulates CD95 protein on CD4+ T cells by affecting mRNA alternative splicing: priming for a synergistic effect on HIV-1 reservoir maintenance. J Biol Chem 2014; 290:35-45. [PMID: 25411246 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.598631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Interleukin-7 (IL-7) has been used as an immunoregulatory and latency-reversing agent in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Although IL-7 can restore circulating CD4(+) T cell counts in HIV-1-infected patients, the anti-apoptotic and proliferative effects of IL-7 appear to benefit survival and expansion of HIV-1-latently infected memory CD4(+) T lymphocytes. IL-7 has been shown to elevate CD95 on CD4(+) T cells in HIV-1-infected individuals and prime CD4(+) T lymphocytes to CD95-mediated proliferative or apoptotic signals. Here we observed that through increasing microRNA-124, IL-7 down-regulates the splicing regulator polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB), leading to inclusion of the transmembrane domain-encoding exon 6 of CD95 mRNA and, subsequently, elevation of CD95 on memory CD4(+) T cells. Moreover, IL-7 up-regulates cellular FLICE-like inhibitory protein (c-FLIP) and stimulates c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) phosphorylation, which switches CD95 signaling to survival mode in memory CD4(+) T lymphocytes. As a result, co-stimulation through IL-7/IL-7R and FasL/CD95 signal pathways augments IL-7-mediated survival and expansion of HIV-1-latently infected memory CD4(+) T lymphocytes. Collectively, we have demonstrated a novel mechanism for IL-7-mediated maintenance of HIV-1 reservoir.
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- Yue Yin
- From the Institute of Human Virology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China and
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- From the Institute of Human Virology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China and
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- From the Institute of Human Virology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China and
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- From the Institute of Human Virology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China and
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- From the Institute of Human Virology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China and
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- From the Institute of Human Virology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China and
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- From the Institute of Human Virology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China and
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510080, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510080, China
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- From the Institute of Human Virology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China and
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- From the Institute of Human Virology and Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China and
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Expression of the IL-7 receptor alpha-chain is down regulated on the surface of CD4 T-cells by the HIV-1 Tat protein. PLoS One 2014; 9:e111193. [PMID: 25333710 PMCID: PMC4205093 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2014] [Accepted: 09/29/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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HIV infection elicits defects in CD4 T-cell homeostasis in both a quantitative and qualitative manner. Interleukin-7 (IL-7) is essential to T-cell homeostasis and several groups have shown reduced levels of the IL-7 receptor alpha-chain (CD127) on both CD4 and CD8 T-cells in viremic HIV+ patients. We have shown previously that soluble HIV Tat protein specifically down regulates cell surface expression of CD127 on human CD8 T-cells in a paracrine fashion. The effects of Tat on CD127 expression in CD4 T-cells has yet to be described. To explore this effect, CD4 T-cells were isolated from healthy individuals and expression levels of CD127 were examined on cells incubated in media alone or treated with Tat protein. We show here that, similar to CD8 T-cells, the HIV-1 Tat protein specifically down regulates CD127 on primary human CD4 T-cells and directs the receptor to the proteasome for degradation. Down regulation of CD127 in response to Tat was seen on both memory and naive CD4 T-cell subsets and was blocked using either heparin or anti-Tat antibodies. Tat did not induce apoptosis in cultured primary CD4 T-cells over 72 hours as determined by Annexin V and PI staining. Pre-incubation of CD4 T-cells with HIV-1 Tat protein did however reduce the ability of IL-7 to up regulate Bcl-2 expression. Similar to exogenous Tat, endogenously expressed HIV Tat protein also suppressed CD127 expression on primary CD4 T-cells. In view of the important role IL-7 plays in lymphocyte proliferation, homeostasis and survival, down regulation of CD127 by Tat likely plays a central role in immune dysregulation and CD4 T-cell decline. Understanding this effect could lead to new approaches to mitigate the CD4 T-cell loss evident in HIV infection.
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Faller EM, McVey MJ, MacPherson PA. IL-7 receptor recovery on CD8 T-cells isolated from HIV+ patients is inhibited by the HIV Tat protein. PLoS One 2014; 9:e102677. [PMID: 25033393 PMCID: PMC4102547 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2014] [Accepted: 06/23/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Expression of the IL-7 receptor α-chain (CD127) is decreased on CD8 T-cells in HIV infected patients and partially recovers in those receiving antiretroviral therapy with sustained viral suppression. We have shown that soluble HIV Tat protein down regulates CD127 expression on CD8 T-cells isolated from healthy HIV-negative individuals. Tat is taken up by CD8 T-cells via endocytosis, exits the endosome and then translocates to the inner leaflet of the cell membrane where it binds to the cytoplasmic tail of CD127 inducing receptor internalization and degradation by the proteasome. This down regulation of CD127 by Tat results in impaired CD8 T-cell function. Interestingly, suppression of CD127 by Tat is reversible and requires the continual presence of Tat in the culture media. We thus questioned whether the low IL-7 receptor expression evident on CD8 T-cells in HIV+ patients was similarly reversible and if suppression of the receptor could be maintained ex vivo by Tat protein alone. We show here that when CD8 T-cells isolated from HIV+ patients are incubated alone in fresh medium, low CD127 expression on the cell surface recovers to normal levels. This recovery of CD127, however, is completely inhibited by the addition of HIV Tat protein to the culture media. This study then provides evidence that soluble factor(s) are responsible for low CD127 expression on circulating CD8 T-cells in HIV+ individuals and further implicates Tat in suppressing this receptor essential to CD8 T-cell proliferation and function.
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- Elliott M. Faller
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Chronic Disease, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Chronic Disease, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Chronic Disease, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Ottawa Hospital General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Interleukin-7 signalling defects in naive CD4+ T cells of HIV patients with CD4+ T-cell deficiency on antiretroviral therapy are associated with T-cell activation and senescence. AIDS 2014; 28:821-30. [PMID: 24499954 DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000000213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of defects in interleukin (IL)-7-induced naive CD4 T-cell homeostasis with residual immune activation and CD4 T-cell senescence in HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) who exhibit persistent CD4 T-cell deficiency. DESIGN IL-7 induced proliferation of, and IL-7 receptor signalling in, total and naive CD4 T cells of HIV patients who had low (<350 cells/μl) or normal (>500 cells/μl) CD4 T-cell counts on ART was examined and related to markers of CD4 T-cell activation and senescence and innate immune activation. METHODS Total, naive (CD45RA CD27) and CD31 naive CD4 T cells from aviremic HIV patients (n=39) with nadir CD4 T-cell counts less than 100 cells/μl, who had received ART for a median time of 7 (range 1-11) years, were assessed for CD127 expression, proliferation (Ki67), signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 phosphorylation (pSTAT5) and CD127 modulation following IL-7 stimulation. Changes were related to proportions of CD4 T cells expressing HLA-DR or CD57 and plasma levels of sCD14, CXCL9 and CXCL10. RESULTS Patients with CD4 T-cell deficiency exhibited lower expression of CD127 on total, naive and CD31 naive CD4 T cells. Downregulation of CD127 after culture with IL-7 correlated inversely with CD4 T-cell counts and directly with Ki67 expression. Induction of pSTAT5 in CD4 T-cell subsets was greater in patients with normal CD4 T-cell counts. CD127 expression correlated inversely with proportions of CD4CD57 T cells, and pSTAT5 induction correlated inversely with CD4 T-cell expression of HLA-DR and CD57. CONCLUSION Defects of IL-7 signalling in HIV patients with persistent CD4 T-cell deficiency receiving ART are associated with CD4 T-cell activation and senescence.
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Shive CL, Mudd JC, Funderburg NT, Sieg SF, Kyi B, Bazdar DA, Mangioni D, Gori A, Jacobson JM, Brooks AD, Hardacre J, Ammori J, Estes JD, Schacker TW, Rodriguez B, Lederman MM. Inflammatory cytokines drive CD4+ T-cell cycling and impaired responsiveness to interleukin 7: implications for immune failure in HIV disease. J Infect Dis 2014; 210:619-29. [PMID: 24585897 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Systemic inflammation has been linked to a failure to normalize CD4(+) T-cell numbers in treated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Although inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin 6 (IL-6) are predictors of disease progression in treated HIV infection, it is not clear how or whether inflammatory mediators contribute to immune restoration failure. METHODS We examined the in vitro effects of IL-6 and interleukin 1β (IL-1β) on peripheral blood T-cell cycling and CD127 surface expression. RESULTS The proinflammatory cytokine IL-1β induces cell cycling and turnover of memory CD4(+) T cells, and IL-6 can induce low-level cycling of naive T cells. Both IL-1β and IL-6 can decrease T-cell surface expression and RNA levels of CD127, the interleukin 7 receptor α chain (IL-7Rα). Preexposure of healthy peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) to IL-6 or IL-1β attenuates IL-7-induced Stat5 phosphorylation and induction of the prosurvival factor Bcl-2 and the gut homing integrin α4β7. We found elevated expression of IL-1β in the lymphoid tissues of patients with HIV infection that did not normalize with antiretroviral therapy. CONCLUSIONS Induction of CD4(+) T-cell turnover and diminished T-cell responsiveness to IL-7 by IL-1β and IL-6 exposure may contribute to the lack of CD4(+) T-cell reconstitution in treated HIV-infected subjects.
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- Carey L Shive
- Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University
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- Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University
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- Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
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- Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University
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- Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University
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- Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, San Gerardo Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, San Gerardo Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine
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- Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Cleveland
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- AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, SAIC-Frederick, Maryland
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Younan P, Kowalski J, Kiem HP. Genetic modification of hematopoietic stem cells as a therapy for HIV/AIDS. Viruses 2013; 5:2946-62. [PMID: 24287598 PMCID: PMC3967155 DOI: 10.3390/v5122946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2013] [Revised: 11/18/2013] [Accepted: 11/19/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The combination of genetic modification and hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation may provide the necessary means to develop an alternative treatment option to conventional antiretroviral therapy. As HSCs give rise to all hematopoietic cell types susceptible to HIV infection, modification of HSCs is an ideal strategy for the development of infection-resistant immune cell populations. Although promising results have been obtained in multiple animal models, additional evidence is needed to convincingly demonstrate the feasibility of this approach as a treatment of HIV-1 infected patients. Here, we review the potential of HSC transplantation and the recently identified limitations of this approach. Using the Berlin Patient as a model for a functional cure, we contrast the confines of autologous versus allogeneic transplantation. Finally, we suggest that although autologous, gene-modified HSC-transplantation may significantly reduce plasma viremia, reaching the lower detection limits currently obtainable through daily HAART will remain a challenging endeavor that will require innovative combinatorial therapies.
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- Patrick Younan
- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; E-Mails: ; ;
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; E-Mails: ; ;
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; E-Mails: ; ;
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +1-206-667-4425; Fax: +1-206-667-6124
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Decreased CD127 expression on CD4+ T-cells and elevated frequencies of CD4+CD25+CD127- T-cells in children with long-lasting type 1 diabetes. Clin Dev Immunol 2013; 2013:459210. [PMID: 24348676 PMCID: PMC3856128 DOI: 10.1155/2013/459210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Revised: 09/28/2013] [Accepted: 10/01/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Pathobiology of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is predominantly associated with T-cell-related actions. Homeostasis of majority of T-cells is critically dependent on signals mediated by CD127 (interleukin-7 receptor, IL-7R). In contrast, regulatory T-cells express very little CD127 and thereby may be delineated by CD4+CD25+CD127− phenotype. Here we aimed to analyze CD127 expression on CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells and enumerate CD4+CD25+CD127− T-cells in long-lasting T1D. T-cells were analyzed by flow cytometry and immunologic data were correlated with vascular, metabolic, and inflammatory parameters. We demonstrated significantly decreased CD127 levels on CD4+, but not CD8+, T cells in T1D pediatric patients. Interestingly, frequencies of CD4+CD25+CD127− T-cells were significantly enhanced in T1D children and correlated well with frequencies of CD34+CD144+ endothelial progenitor cells and CD4+CD25− T-cells. Levels of CD127 on both CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells in T1D patients were not correlated to each other or HbA1C. Interestingly, however, CD127 levels on CD4+ T-cells were significantly correlated to frequencies of CD4+CD25+CD127− T-cells, whereas CD127 levels on CD8+ T-cells were significantly correlated to concentrations of VEGF and triglycerides. Our data indicate that CD127 expression is differentially modulated on CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells in the course of T1D. Moreover, we demonstrated that, in contrast to recent-onset T1D, long-lasting T1D is associated with enhancement of T-cells with regulatory phenotype.
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Hartling HJ, Gaardbo JC, Ronit A, Salem M, Laye M, Clausen MR, Skogstrand K, Gerstoft J, Ullum H, Nielsen SD. Impaired Thymic Output in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection. Scand J Immunol 2013; 78:378-86. [DOI: 10.1111/sji.12096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2013] [Accepted: 07/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Viro-Immunology Research Unit; Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet; Copenhagen University Hospital; Copenhagen; Denmark
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- Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism, Rigshospitalet; Copenhagen University Hospital; Copenhagen; Denmark
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- Department of Hepatology, Rigshospitalet; Copenhagen University Hospital; Copenhagen; Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology; Statens Serum Institute; Copenhagen; Denmark
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- Viro-Immunology Research Unit; Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet; Copenhagen University Hospital; Copenhagen; Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet; Copenhagen University Hospital; Copenhagen; Denmark
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- Viro-Immunology Research Unit; Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet; Copenhagen University Hospital; Copenhagen; Denmark
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Breton G, Chomont N, Takata H, Fromentin R, Ahlers J, Filali-Mouhim A, Riou C, Boulassel MR, Routy JP, Yassine-Diab B, Sékaly RP. Programmed death-1 is a marker for abnormal distribution of naive/memory T cell subsets in HIV-1 infection. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2013; 191:2194-204. [PMID: 23918986 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Chronic activation of T cells is a hallmark of HIV-1 infection and plays an important role in disease progression. We previously showed that the engagement of the inhibitory receptor programmed death (PD)-1 on HIV-1-specific CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells leads to their functional exhaustion in vitro. However, little is known about the impact of PD-1 expression on the turnover and maturation status of T cells during the course of the disease. In this study, we show that PD-1 is upregulated on all T cell subsets, including naive, central memory, and transitional memory T cells in HIV-1-infected subjects. PD-1 is expressed at similar levels on most CD4(+) T cells during the acute and the chronic phase of disease and identifies cells that have recently entered the cell cycle. In contrast, PD-1 expression is dramatically increased in CD8(+) T cells during the transition from acute to chronic infection, and this is associated with reduced levels of cell proliferation. The failure to downregulate expression of PD-1 in most T cells during chronic HIV-1 infection is associated with persistent alterations in the distribution of T cell subsets and is associated with impaired responses to IL-7. Our findings identify PD-1 as a marker for aberrant distribution of T cell subsets in HIV-1 infection.
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- Gaëlle Breton
- Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Saint-Luc, Montreal, Quebec H2X 1P1, Canada
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Gaardbo JC, Hartling HJ, Ronit A, Thorsteinsson K, Madsen HO, Springborg K, Gjerdrum LMR, Birch C, Laye M, Ullum H, Andersen ÅB, Nielsen SD. Different immunological phenotypes associated with preserved CD4+ T cell counts in HIV-infected controllers and viremic long term non-progressors. PLoS One 2013; 8:e63744. [PMID: 23696852 PMCID: PMC3655944 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2013] [Accepted: 04/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND HIV-infected controllers control viral replication and maintain normal CD4+ T cell counts. Long Term Non-Progressors (LTNP) also maintain normal CD4+ T cell counts, but have on-going viral replication. We hypothesized that different immunological mechanisms are responsible for preserved CD4+ T cell counts in controllers and LTNP. METHODS 25 HIV-infected controllers and 14 LTNP were included in this cross-sectional study. For comparison, 25 progressors and 34 healthy controls were included. Production and destruction of T cells were addressed by determination of T cell receptor excision circles (TREC), recent thymic emigrants, naïve cells, immune activation, senescence and apoptosis. Furthermore, telomere length was determined, and the amount of lymphoid tissue in tonsil biopsies was quantified. RESULTS Controllers presented with partly preserved thymic output, preserved expression of the IL-7 receptor and IL-7 receptor density, and lower levels of destruction of cells than progressors resembling HIV-negative healthy controls. In contrast, LTNP appeared much like progressors, and different from controllers in immune activation, senescence, and apoptosis. Interestingly, CD8+ RTE, TREC and telomere length were partly preserved. Finally, both controllers and LTNP displayed decreased amounts of lymphoid tissue compared to healthy controls. CONCLUSIONS Controllers presented with an immunological profile different from LTNP. While controllers resembled healthy controls, LTNP were similar to progressors, suggesting different immunological mechanisms to be responsible for preserved CD4+ T cell counts in LTNP and controllers. However, both controllers and LTNP presented with reduced amounts of lymphoid tissue despite preserved CD4+ T cell counts, indicating HIV to cause damage even in non-progressors.
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- Julie Christine Gaardbo
- Viro-immunology Research Group, Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Viro-immunology Research Group, Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Viro-immunology Research Group, Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre Hospital, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Oto-rhinolaryngology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Viro-immunology Research Group, Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center of Inflammation and Metabolism, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Viro-immunology Research Group, Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Kalinowska M, Bazdar DA, Lederman MM, Funderburg N, Sieg SF. Decreased IL-7 responsiveness is related to oxidative stress in HIV disease. PLoS One 2013; 8:e58764. [PMID: 23505558 PMCID: PMC3591367 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2012] [Accepted: 02/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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HIV disease results in decreased IL-7 receptor expression and IL-7 responsiveness in T cells. To explore mechanisms of these deficiencies, we compared CD127 expression and IL-7 induction of P-STAT5 in T cells from HIV-infected persons with serum concentrations of cytokines (IL-7, IL-6 and IL-15), markers of microbial translocation (sCD14 and LPS), and with an indicator of oxidative stress (malondialdehyde (MDA) adducts). CD127 expression was directly related to IL-7 responsiveness in most CD8+ T cell subsets but not in CD4+ T cells from HIV-infected persons. MDA adducts were increased in serum of HIV-infected patients and were inversely related to IL-7 responsiveness in CD8+ T cells and in central memory CD4+ T cells. Incubation of T cells from healthy controls with hydrogen peroxide resulted in impairments in IL-7 induction of P-STAT5. These findings suggest that oxidative stress that is characteristic of HIV disease could contribute to impairments in IL-7 responsiveness and disrupt T cell homeostasis.
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- Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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Gazzola L, Bellistri GM, Tincati C, Ierardi V, Savoldi A, Del Sole A, Tagliabue L, d'Arminio Monforte A, Marchetti G. Association between peripheral T-Lymphocyte activation and impaired bone mineral density in HIV-infected patients. J Transl Med 2013; 11:51. [PMID: 23448662 PMCID: PMC3598927 DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-11-51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2012] [Accepted: 02/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background HIV-infected patients display an increased and early incidence of osteopenia/osteoporosis. We investigated whether bone metabolism disorders in HIV-infected patients are related to immune hyperactivation and premature immune senescence. Methods Bone mineral density (BMD) was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA): low BMD (LBMD) was defined as T-score or z-score < -1. CD4+/CD8+ phenotype (CD38/HLA-DR, CD127, CD28/CD57), and circulating IL-7, TNF-α, RANKL, OPG were measured. The variables with p < .05 were evaluated by multivariate logistic regression. Results 78 patients were enrolled: 55 were LBMD. LBMD patients showed increased activated HDLADR + CD4+ and CD8+ (p = .03 and p = .002, respectively). Interestingly, no differences in senescent CD28-CD57 + CD4+/CD8+ T-cells were observed between groups. However, LBMD patients displayed a decreased CD4 + CD28- phenotype (p = .04) at the advantage of the CD28+ pool (p = .03), possibly reflecting heightened apoptosis of highly differentiated CD28-negative cells. Activated HLADR + CD4+/CD8+ and CD28 + CD4+ cells were independently associated with impaired BMD (AOR = 1.08 for each additional HLADR + CD4+ percentage higher; CI 95%,1.01-1.15; p = .02; AOR = 1.07 for each additional HLADR + CD8+ percentage higher; CI 95%,1.01-1.11; p = .01; AOR = 1.06 for each additional CD28 + CD4+ percentage higher; CI 95%,1.0-1.13; p = .05). Conclusions Heightened T-cell activation in HIV-infected patients independently predicts BMD disorders, suggesting a critical role of immune activation in the pathogenesis of osteopenia/osteoporosis, even in patients achieving full viral suppression with HAART. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1479-5876-11-51) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Lidia Gazzola
- Department of Health Sciences, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milan, Via A, Di Rudinì, 8, Milan 20142, Italy
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Ghazawi FM, Faller EM, Sugden SM, Kakal JA, MacPherson PA. IL-7 downregulates IL-7Rα expression in human CD8 T cells by two independent mechanisms. Immunol Cell Biol 2012. [PMID: 23207282 DOI: 10.1038/icb.2012.69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Interleukin (IL)-7 is an essential nonredundant cytokine, and throughout the lifespan of a T-cell signaling via the IL-7 receptor influences cell survival, proliferation and differentiation. It is therefore no surprise that expression of the IL-7 receptor alpha-chain (CD127) is tightly regulated. We have previously shown that IL-7 downregulates expression of CD127 at the cell surface and now elucidate the kinetics of that suppression and demonstrate that IL-7 downregulates CD127 transcripts and surface protein in primary human CD8 T cells by two separate pathways. We show that IL-7 induces the initial reduction in cell-surface CD127 protein independent of transcriptional suppression, which is delayed by 40-60 min. Although IL-7-mediated downregulation of CD127 transcripts is dependent on Janus kinase (JAK)/STAT5, the early downregulation of surface CD127 protein is independent of JAK activity. The data further illustrate that low levels of IL-7 induce smaller and transient decreases in CD127 transcripts and surface protein, whereas higher concentrations induce more profound and sustained suppression. Such flexibility in receptor expression likely allows for fine-tuned immune responses in human CD8 T cells in different microenvironments and in response to different immunological challenges.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW HIV infection is characterized by depletion of CD4 T cells and altered immune function, leading to severe immune deficiency. Mechanisms leading to this T-cell depletion are not completely understood. Potent antiretroviral therapy restores T-cell counts and improves prognosis. Apart from antiviral therapy for the infection, immunotherapies such as interleukin-7 that influence T-cell homeostatic mechanisms are undergoing clinical evaluation. Because of its pleiotropic effects on developing and mature T cells, interleukin-7 may help to restore immune function during HIV infection. RECENT FINDINGS Recent studies explored the therapeutic use of interleukin-7 in simian immunodeficiency virus models and in HIV-infected patients. Interleukin-7 can help to restore CD4 T-cell number and function. SUMMARY Numerous recent findings highlight the importance of interleukin-7 pathway impairment in the pathogenesis of HIV infection. Notably, interleukin-7 levels increased with advancing CD4 T-cell lymphopenia, whereas interleukin-7 receptor expression is downregulated mainly on CD8 T cells. Therapeutic trials conducted in monkeys and in humans (phase I) have provided evidence on the role of interleukin-7 in thymopoiesis and in restoration of T-cell functions. Interleukin-7 appeared to be well tolerated and to have no deleterious effects on viral load. These results should be confirmed in larger phase I/II studies.
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Thirty Years with HIV Infection-Nonprogression Is Still Puzzling: Lessons to Be Learned from Controllers and Long-Term Nonprogressors. AIDS Res Treat 2012; 2012:161584. [PMID: 22693657 PMCID: PMC3368166 DOI: 10.1155/2012/161584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2012] [Accepted: 03/22/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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In the early days of the HIV epidemic, it was observed that a minority of the infected patients did not progress to AIDS or death and maintained stable CD4+ cell counts. As the technique for measuring viral load became available it was evident that some of these nonprogressors in addition to preserved CD4+ cell counts had very low or even undetectable viral replication. They were therefore termed controllers, while those with viral replication were termed long-term nonprogressors (LTNPs). Genetics and virology play a role in nonprogression, but does not provide a full explanation. Therefore, host differences in the immunological response have been proposed. Moreover, the immunological response can be divided into an immune homeostasis resistant to HIV and an immune response leading to viral control. Thus, non-progression in LTNP and controllers may be due to different immunological mechanisms. Understanding the lack of disease progression and the different interactions between HIV and the immune system could ideally teach us how to develop a functional cure for HIV infection. Here we review immunological features of controllers and LTNP, highlighting differences and clinical implications.
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The influence of HIV on CD127 expression and its potential implications for IL-7 therapy. Semin Immunol 2012; 24:231-40. [PMID: 22421574 DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2012.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2011] [Revised: 10/31/2011] [Accepted: 02/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Interleukin-7 (IL-7) is critical for early T-cell development and plays an important role in T-cell homeostasis, differentiation and function. Signalling via the IL-7 receptor is dependent on the expression of its components, IL-7Rα (CD127) and IL-2Rγ (CD132) and is mediated in part by alterations in CD127 expression levels in different cell subsets. Naïve and memory T-cells express high levels of CD127, while effector cells are CD127(lo) and retention of the receptor is thought to influence the development of memory cells. Reduced expression of CD127 has been associated with markers of disease severity in HIV infection and other chronic viral infections as well as in various cancers. In HIV infection, decreased CD127 expression on T-cells is correlated with reduced CD4(+) T-cell counts, increased viral replication and immune activation. The loss of IL-7 activity, due to decreased CD127 expression, may contribute to the observed loss of CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) activity in HIV infection. The downregulation of CD127 expression in HIV infection may be due to host (e.g. IL-7, IL-4, immune activation) and/or viral (e.g. HIV-tat) factors and mechanisms of receptor regulation may differ by cell type. In addition, the expression of a soluble form of CD127 (sCD127) has been shown to be increased in HIV infection. This protein may affect IL-7 activity in vivo and therefore may have implications for IL-7-based therapies which are currently being tested in clinical trials. Understanding how CD127 is regulated during HIV infection will provide insight for the development of novel therapeutics to improve immune function and anti-viral T-cell activity.
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Incomplete immune recovery in HIV infection: mechanisms, relevance for clinical care, and possible solutions. Clin Dev Immunol 2012; 2012:670957. [PMID: 22474480 PMCID: PMC3312328 DOI: 10.1155/2012/670957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2011] [Accepted: 12/22/2011] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Treatment of HIV-infected patients with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) usually results in diminished viral replication, increasing CD4+ cell counts, a reversal of most immunological disturbances, and a reduction in risk of morbidity and mortality. However, approximately 20% of all HIV-infected patients do not achieve optimal immune reconstitution despite suppression of viral replication. These patients are referred to as immunological nonresponders (INRs). INRs present with severely altered immunological functions, including malfunction and diminished production of cells within lymphopoetic tissue, perturbed frequencies of immune regulators such as regulatory T cells and Th17 cells, and increased immune activation, immunosenescence, and apoptosis. Importantly, INRs have an increased risk of morbidity and mortality compared to HIV-infected patients with an optimal immune reconstitution. Additional treatment to HAART that may improve immune reconstitution has been investigated, but results thus far have proved disappointing. The reason for immunological nonresponse is incompletely understood. This paper summarizes the known and unknown factors regarding the incomplete immune reconstitution in HIV infection, including mechanisms, relevance for clinical care, and possible solutions.
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Longitudinal assessment of interleukin 7 plasma levels in HIV-infected patients in the absence of and under antiretroviral therapy. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2012; 58:436-41. [PMID: 21876448 DOI: 10.1097/qai.0b013e318231de37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cross-sectional studies in HIV-positive patients have suggested that interleukin 7 (IL-7) may increase in parallel to CD4 decline during the natural course of HIV infection. We tested this hypothesis in a longitudinal study examining the evolution of IL-7 and CD4 counts in 2 different scenarios. METHODS IL-7 and CD4 counts were regularly monitored in 30 drug-naive patients during a follow-up period of 46 ± 14 months in the absence of therapy and in 42 patients who started highly active antiretroviral therapy and maintained undetectable viremia for 2 years. Multivariate linear regression analysis was used to ascertain what factors were associated with IL-7 variations during follow-up. RESULTS In antiretroviral therapy-naive patients, CD4 counts significantly decreased (P < 0.0001), whereas plasma HIV-RNA and IL-7 levels remained fairly stable. In patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy, CD4 counts significantly increased (P < 0.0001) and IL-7 tended to decrease (P = 0.1). There was no correlation between CD4 and IL-7 variations either in the naive or in the treated population. The only parameter significantly associated with IL-7 variation during follow-up was its baseline level that showed a negative correlation. CONCLUSIONS In HIV patients with low or moderate degree of immunodeficiency, CD4 counts and plasma IL-7 levels do not evolve in parallel, suggesting that other factors different from CD4 counts must be involved in the upregulation of IL-7 observed in HIV infection.
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Gonzalez-Quintial R, Lawson BR, Scatizzi JC, Craft J, Kono DH, Baccala R, Theofilopoulos AN. Systemic autoimmunity and lymphoproliferation are associated with excess IL-7 and inhibited by IL-7Rα blockade. PLoS One 2011; 6:e27528. [PMID: 22102903 PMCID: PMC3213145 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2011] [Accepted: 10/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Lupus is characterized by disturbances in lymphocyte homeostasis, as demonstrated by the marked accumulation of activated/memory T cells. Here, we provide evidence that proliferation of the CD8+ precursors for the accumulating CD4–CD8– T cells in MRL-Faslpr lupus-predisposed mice is, in part, driven by commensal antigens. The ensuing lymphadenopathy is associated with increased production of IL-7 due to expansion of fibroblastic reticular cells, the primary source of this cytokine. The excess IL-7 is not, however, consumed by CD4–CD8– T cells due to permanent down-regulation of IL-7Rα (CD127), but instead supports proliferation of autoreactive T cells and progression of autoimmunity. Accordingly, IL-7R blockade reduced T cell activation and autoimmune manifestations even when applied at advanced disease stage. These findings indicate that an imbalance favoring production over consumption of IL-7 may contribute to systemic autoimmunity, and correction of this imbalance may be a novel therapeutic approach in lymphoproliferative and autoimmune syndromes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rosana Gonzalez-Quintial
- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Immunobiology and Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (RB); (ANT)
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (RB); (ANT)
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Reduced Central Memory CD4+ T Cells and Increased T-Cell Activation Characterise Treatment-Naive Patients Newly Diagnosed at Late Stage of HIV Infection. AIDS Res Treat 2011; 2012:314849. [PMID: 22110905 PMCID: PMC3205670 DOI: 10.1155/2012/314849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2011] [Revised: 08/05/2011] [Accepted: 08/23/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Objectives. We investigated immune phenotypes of HIV+ patients who present late, considering late presenters (LPs, CD4+ < 350/μL and/or AIDS), advanced HIV disease (AHD, CD4+ < 200/μL and/or AIDS), and AIDS presenters (AIDS-defining condition at presentation, independently from CD4+). Methods. Patients newly diagnosed with HIV at our clinic between 2007–2011 were enrolled. Mann-Whitney/Chi-squared tests and logistic regression were used for statistics. Results. 275 patients were newly diagnosed with HIV between January/2007–March/2011. 130 (47%) were LPs, 79 (29%) showed AHD, and 49 (18%) were AIDS presenters. LP, AHD, and AIDS presenters were older and more frequently heterosexuals. Higher CD8+%, lower CD127+CD4+%, higher CD95+CD8+%, CD38+CD8+%, and CD45R0+CD38+CD8+% characterized LP/AHD/AIDS presentation. In multivariate analysis, older age, heterosexuality, higher CD8+%, and lower CD127+CD4+% were confirmed associated with LP/AHD. Lower CD4+ and higher CD38+CD8+% resulted independently associated with AIDS presentation. Conclusions. CD127 downregulation and immune activation characterize HIV+ patients presenting late and would be studied as additional markers of late presentation.
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