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CD4+ T cells from HIV-1 patients with impaired Th1 effector responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis exhibit diminished histone and nucleoprotein signatures.

ABSTRACT: HIV+ patients have an increased risk for tuberculosis disease despite clinical management with ARTs. We established a culture model of Mtb-infection in PBMCs from HIV+ PPD+ donors on suppressive ART (median 6.4years) with negligible viral loads (median<50copies/mL) and stable CD4+ T cell counts (517cells/mm^3). We observed that HIV+ patient lymphocytes harbored a recruitment defect to Mtb-infected monocytes. To investigate these immune defects on a per cell basis, purified CD4+ T cells from HIV patients were assessed by label-free quantification protein mass spectrometry. CD4+ T cells from HIV patients displayed diminished nucleoprotein levels - notably of histone variant H2a.Z and ribonucleoprotein A1. Only within healthy donors, transcriptional regulatory histone variant H2a.Z expression was correlated to the extent of IFN-? induction upon Mtb-infection. Our findings may explain why HIV patients exhibit prolonged immune cell dysfunction despite suppressive ART, and implicate a per cell defect of CD4+ T cells.

SUBMITTER: Seu L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5593129 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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CD4+ T cells from HIV-1 patients with impaired Th1 effector responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis exhibit diminished histone and nucleoprotein signatures.

Seu Lillian L Mobley James A JA Goepfert Paul A PA

Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) 20170525

HIV+ patients have an increased risk for tuberculosis disease despite clinical management with ARTs. We established a culture model of Mtb-infection in PBMCs from HIV+ PPD+ donors on suppressive ART (median 6.4years) with negligible viral loads (median<50copies/mL) and stable CD4+ T cell counts (517cells/mm^3). We observed that HIV+ patient lymphocytes harbored a recruitment defect to Mtb-infected monocytes. To investigate these immune defects on a per cell basis, purified CD4+ T cells from HIV ...[more]

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CD4+ T cells from HIV-1 patients with impaired Th1 effector responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis exhibit diminished histone and nucleoprotein signatures.

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CD4+ T cells from HIV-1 patients with impaired Th1 effector responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis exhibit diminished histone and nucleoprotein signatures.

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