Interleukin-10 contributes to reservoir establishment and persistence in antiretroviral therapy-treated, SIV-infected macaques
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ABSTRACT: Interleukin (IL)-10 is an immunosuppressive cytokine that signals through STAT3 to regulate T follicular helper cell (TFH) differentiation and germinal center formation. In SIV-infected macaques, levels of IL-10 in plasma and lymph node (LN) are induced by infection and not normalized with ART. During chronic infection, plasma IL-10 and transcriptomic signatures of IL-10 signaling were significantly correlated with the cell-associated SIV-DNA content within LN CD4+ memory subsets, including TFH, and predicted the frequency of CD4+ TFH and their cell- associated SIV-DNA content during ART, respectively. Notably, in ART-treated RMs, cells harboring SIV-DNA by DNAscope were preferentially found in the LN B-cell follicle in close proximity to IL-10. Finally, we demonstrate that the in vivo neutralization of soluble IL-10 in ART-treated, SIV-infected macaques significantly reduces B cell follicle maintenance and, by extension, cellular sites of viral persistence, including LN TFH and memory CD4+ T-cells expressing PD-1 and CTLA-4. Thus, these data support a role for IL-10 in maintaining a pool of target cells in lymphoid tissue that serve as a niche for viral persistence. Targeting IL-10 signaling to impair CD4+ T-cell survival and improve antiviral immune responses may represent a novel approach to limit viral persistence in ART-suppressed people living with HIV.
ORGANISM(S): Macaca mulatta
PROVIDER: GSE196182 | GEO | 2022/02/09
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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