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Sattler FR, Chelliah D, Wu X, Sanchez A, Kendall MA, Hogg E, Lagat D, Lalloo U, Veloso V, Havlir DV, Landay A. Biomarkers Associated with Death After Initiating Treatment for Tuberculosis and HIV in Patients with Very Low CD 4 Cells. Pathog Immun 2018; 3:46-62. [PMID: 29770360 PMCID: PMC5951172 DOI: 10.20411/pai.v3i1.235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Background The risk of short-term death for treatment naive patients dually infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV may be reduced by early anti-retroviral therapy. Of those dying, mechanisms responsible for fatal outcomes are unclear. We hypothesized that greater malnutrition and/or inflammation when initiating treatment are associated with an increased risk for death. Methods We utilized a retrospective case-cohort design among participants of the ACTG A5221 study who had baseline CD4 < 50 cells/mm3. The case-cohort sample consisted of 51 randomly selected participants, whose stored plasma was tested for C-reactive protein, cytokines, chemokines, and nutritional markers. Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess the association of nutritional, inflammatory, and immunomodulatory markers for survival. Results The case-cohort sample was similar to the 282 participants within the parent cohort with CD4 <50 cells/mm3. In the case cohort, 7 (14%) had BMI < 16.5 (kg/m2) and 17 (33%) had BMI 16.5-18.5(kg/m2). Risk of death was increased per 1 IQR width higher of log10 transformed level of C-reactive protein (adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) = 3.42 [95% CI = 1.33-8.80], P = 0.011), interferon gamma (aHR = 2.46 [CI = 1.02-5.90], P = 0.044), MCP-3 (3.67 [CI = 1.08-12.42], P = 0.037), and with IL-15 (aHR = 2.75 [CI = 1.08-6.98], P = 0.033) and IL-17 (aHR = 3.99 [CI = -1.06-15.07], P = 0.041). BMI, albumin, hemoglobin, and leptin levels were not associated with risk of death. Conclusions Unlike patients only infected with M. tuberculosis for whom malnutrition and low BMI increase the risk of death, this relationship was not evident in our dually infected patients. Risk of death was associated with significant increases in markers of global inflammation along with soluble biomarkers of innate and adaptive immunity.
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- Fred R Sattler
- Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Social & Scientific Systems Inc., Silver Springs, Maryland
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- Moi University Clinical Research Center, Eldoret, Kenya
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- Enhancing Care Foundation, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa
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- Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Rush Presbyterian Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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Divan A, Budd RC, Tobin RP, Newell-Rogers MK. γδ T Cells and dendritic cells in refractory Lyme arthritis. J Leukoc Biol 2015; 97:653-63. [PMID: 25605869 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.2ru0714-343rr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Lyme disease is a multisystem infection transmitted by tick vectors with an incidence of up to 300,000 individuals/yr in the United States. The primary treatments are oral or i.v. antibiotics. Despite treatment, some individuals do not recover and have prolonged symptoms affecting multiple organs, including the nervous system and connective tissues. Inflammatory arthritis is a common symptom associated with Lyme pathology. In the past decades, γδ T cells have emerged as candidates that contribute to the transition from innate to adaptive responses. These cells are also differentially regulated within the synovia of patients affected by RLA. Here, we review and discuss potential cellular mechanisms involving γδ T cells and DCs in RLA. TLR signaling and antigen processing and presentation will be the key concepts that we review in aid of understanding the impact of γδ T cells in RLA.
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- Ali Divan
- *Texas A&M Health Science, Temple, Texas, USA; and University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
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- *Texas A&M Health Science, Temple, Texas, USA; and University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
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- *Texas A&M Health Science, Temple, Texas, USA; and University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
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- *Texas A&M Health Science, Temple, Texas, USA; and University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
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γδ T cells cross-link innate and adaptive immunity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Clin Dev Immunol 2011; 2011:587315. [PMID: 21253470 PMCID: PMC3022180 DOI: 10.1155/2011/587315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2010] [Revised: 11/27/2010] [Accepted: 12/09/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Protective immunity against mycobacterial infections such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis is mediated by interactions between specific T cells and activated antigen presenting cells. To date, many aspects of mycobacterial immunity have shown that innate cells could be the key elements that substantially may influence the subsequent adaptive host response. During the early phases of infection, innate lymphocyte subsets play a pivotal role in this context. Here we summarize the findings of recent investigations on γδ T lymphocytes and their role in tuberculosis immunity.
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Poupot M, Fournié JJ. Non-peptide antigens activating human Vγ9/Vδ2 T lymphocytes. Immunol Lett 2004; 95:129-38. [PMID: 15388252 DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2004.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2004] [Revised: 06/25/2004] [Accepted: 06/29/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Various non-peptidic ligands which specifically activate most of circulating human Vgamma9/Vdelta2 T lymphocytes are now known. Most of these are so-called phosphoantigens and directly trigger the Vgamma9/Vdelta2 TCR expressing cells, without need for MHC-restricted presentation molecules. Although some potent phosphoantigens currently involved in clinical trials are chemically-synthesized molecules, most of the natural antigens were isolated from microbial cultures. The structures and biosynthesis of phosphoantigens are reviewed here and the possible physiological significance of their recognition by gammadelta T lymphocytes is discussed.
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- Mary Poupot
- département Oncogénèse and Signalisation dans les Cellules Hématopoiétiques, Unité 563 de l'Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan, BP3028, 31024 Toulouse, France
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Guerrero JE, Pacheco DP, Suárez CF, Martínez P, Aristizabal F, Moncada CA, Patarroyo ME, Patarroyo MA. Characterizing T-cell receptor gamma-variable gene in Aotus nancymaae owl monkey peripheral blood. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003; 62:472-82. [PMID: 14617030 DOI: 10.1046/j.1399-0039.2003.00130.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Gammadelta T lymphocytes have a heterodimeric complex formed by the association of gamma and delta chains as receptor. Proliferation of this lymphocyte population has been observed, when infection by several pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Plasmodium spp. occurs. The New World Monkey Aotus nancymaae has become a very good experimental model for the immunological and physiopathological study of these infectious agents. The A. nancymaae gamma-variable region was characterized from peripheral blood samples by using cDNA and genomic DNA polymerase chain reaction amplification, DNA sequencing, and dot-blot hybridization techniques. Seventeen different T-cell receptor gamma-variable (TCRGV) sequences were obtained. These sequences were distributed among TCRGV subsets 1, 2, or 3, according to human subset classification. Although no subset 4 amplification was obtained, this subset was detected by dot-blot hybridization. The presence of these 4 subsets resembles the behavior displayed by 'gammadelta-low species' (humans and mice), where high diversity among these lymphocytes can be observed. Homologies greater than 70% were found with respect to humans. Sequence convergence between human and A. nancymaae subsets 1 and 3 highlights Aotus as a promising model for studying these lymphocyte functions.
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- J E Guerrero
- Molecular Biology Department, Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Zhou D, Lai X, Shen Y, Sehgal P, Shen L, Simon M, Qiu L, Huang D, Du GZ, Wang Q, Letvin NL, Chen ZW. Inhibition of adaptive Vgamma2Vdelta2+ T-cell responses during active mycobacterial coinfection of simian immunodeficiency virus SIVmac-infected monkeys. J Virol 2003; 77:2998-3006. [PMID: 12584325 PMCID: PMC149773 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.5.2998-3006.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Adaptive immune responses of gammadelta T cells during active mycobacterial coinfection of human immunodeficiency virus-infected humans have not been studied. Macaques infected with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) SIVmac were employed to determine the extent to which a coincident AIDS virus infection might compromise immune responses of mycobacterium-specific Vgamma2Vdelta2(+) T cells during active mycobacterial infection. Control SIVmac-negative macaques developed primary and recall expansions of phosphoantigen-specific Vgamma2Vdelta2(+) T cells after Mycobacterium bovis BCG infection and BCG reinfection, respectively. In contrast, SIVmac-infected macaques did not exhibit sound primary and recall expansions of Vgamma2Vdelta2(+) T cells in the blood and pulmonary alveoli following BCG infection and reinfection. The absence of adaptive Vgamma2Vdelta2(+) T-cell responses was associated with profound CD4(+) T-cell deficiency and subsequent development of SIVmac-related tuberculosis-like disease in the coinfected monkeys. Consistently, Vgamma2Vdelta2(+) T cells from coinfected monkeys displayed a reduced capacity to expand in vitro following stimulation with phosphoantigen. The reduced ability of Vgamma2Vdelta2(+) peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) to expand could be restored to some extent by coculture of these cells with CD4(+) T cells purified from PBL of SIV-negative monkeys. Furthermore, naïve monkeys inoculated simultaneously with SIVmac and BCG were unable to sustain expansion of Vgamma2Vdelta2(+) T cells at the time that the coinfected monkeys developed lymphoid depletion and a fatal tuberculosis-like disease. Nevertheless, no deletion in Vdelta2 T-cell receptor repertoire was identified in SIVmac-BCG-coinfected macaques, implicating an SIVmac-induced down-regulation rather than a clonal exhaustion of these cells. Thus, an SIVmac-induced compromise of the adaptive Vgamma2Vdelta2(+) T-cell responses may contribute to the immunopathogenesis of the SIV-related tuberculosis-like disease in macaques.
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- Dejiang Zhou
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Rojas RE, Torres M, Fournié JJ, Harding CV, Boom WH. Phosphoantigen presentation by macrophages to mycobacterium tuberculosis--reactive Vgamma9Vdelta2+ T cells: modulation by chloroquine. Infect Immun 2002; 70:4019-27. [PMID: 12117907 PMCID: PMC128132 DOI: 10.1128/iai.70.8.4019-4027.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vgamma9Vdelta2+ T cells (gammadelta T cells) are activated by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and recognize mycobacterial nonpeptide phosphoantigens. The role of antigen-presenting cells in the processing and presentation of phosphoantigens to Vgamma9Vdelta2+ T cells is not understood. We analyzed the role of macrophages for activation of gammadelta T cells by a new synthetic phosphoantigen bromohydrin pyrophosphate (BrHPP) and M. tuberculosis. Macrophages greatly increased gammadelta T-cell activation by both BrHPP and M. tuberculosis. Fixation of macrophages before infection demonstrated that uptake of M. tuberculosis was required for presentation to gammadelta T cells. Antigens of M. tuberculosis remained stably associated with macrophage surface and were not removed by paraformaldehyde fixation or washing. Macrophages processed M. tuberculosis for gammadelta T cells through a brefeldin A-insensitive pathway, suggesting that transport through the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex of a putative presenting molecule is not important in the early processing of M. tuberculosis antigens for gammadelta T cells. Processing of M. tuberculosis was not eliminated by chloroquine, indicating that processing of gammadelta antigens is not dependent on acidic pH in the lysosomes. Chloroquine treatment of BrHPP-pulsed macrophages increased activation of gammadelta T cells. Ammonium chloride treatment of macrophages did not increase reactivity of gammadelta T cells to BrHPP, indicating that the effect of chloroquine was independent of pH changes in endosomes. Chloroquine, by inhibiting membrane traffic, may increase association and retention of phosphoantigens with cell surface membrane molecules on macrophages.
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- Roxana E Rojas
- Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
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Carvalho ACC, Matteelli A, Airò P, Tedoldi S, Casalini C, Imberti L, Cadeo GP, Beltrame A, Carosi G. gammadelta T lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of patients with tuberculosis with and without HIV co-infection. Thorax 2002; 57:357-60. [PMID: 11923557 PMCID: PMC1746296 DOI: 10.1136/thorax.57.4.357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND Several recent studies suggest that gammadelta T lymphocytes play an important role in immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, the dynamics of these cells in the peripheral blood of patients with tuberculosis (TB) with and without HIV infection is not fully understood. A study was undertaken to evaluate the profile of the gammadelta T cell population in patients at the time the diagnosis of TB was established. METHODS A cross sectional study was performed in consecutive TB patients from the Department of Infectious Diseases, Spedali Civili, Brescia. CD4+, CD8+ and Vdelta1 and Vdelta2 T cell counts were analysed. Lymphocyte surface membrane expression was evaluated with the FITC-TCRgammadelta, -Vdelta1, -Vdelta2 and PE-Vdelta1 monoclonal antibodies. Blood donors and HIV seropositive asymptomatic individuals acted as controls. RESULTS Seventy four TB patients were evaluated, 20 of whom (27%) were co-infected with HIV. HIV seronegative TB patients (n=54) had total gammadelta T cells and Vdelta1 subsets comparable to those in blood donors (n=39). However, the percentage with the Vdelta2 subset was significantly lower in patients with TB than in controls (median 1.5 v 2.1; p=0.05). Responsiveness to PPD was not associated with predominance of a specific gammadelta T cell subset. HIV seropositive individuals had a decreased percentage of circulating Vdelta2 cells at a level similar to that in HIV seronegative TB patients, regardless of the presence of active TB. CONCLUSIONS HIV seronegative TB patients and HIV infected individuals (with or without active TB) have a reduced number of circulating Vdelta2 T cells compared with healthy individuals. Whether TB and HIV infection share a common mechanism causing Vdelta2 T cell depletion still needs to be established.
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- A C C Carvalho
- Unidade de Pesquisa em Tuberculose, Serviço de Pneumologia, Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (HUCFF/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Shen Y, Zhou D, Qiu L, Lai X, Simon M, Shen L, Kou Z, Wang Q, Jiang L, Estep J, Hunt R, Clagett M, Sehgal PK, Li Y, Zeng X, Morita CT, Brenner MB, Letvin NL, Chen ZW. Adaptive immune response of Vgamma2Vdelta2+ T cells during mycobacterial infections. Science 2002; 295:2255-8. [PMID: 11910108 PMCID: PMC2872146 DOI: 10.1126/science.1068819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 291] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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To examine the role of T cell receptor (TCR) in gammadelta T cells in adaptive immunity, a macaque model was used to follow Vgamma2Vdelta2+ T cell responses to mycobacterial infections. These phosphoantigen-specific gammadelta T cells displayed major expansion during Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection and a clear memory-type response after BCG reinfection. Primary and recall expansions of Vgamma2Vdelta2+ T cells were also seen during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of naive and BCG-vaccinated macaques, respectively. This capacity to rapidly expand coincided with a clearance of BCG bacteremia and immunity to fatal tuberculosis in BCG-vaccinated macaques. Thus, Vgamma2Vdelta2+ T cells may contribute to adaptive immunity to mycobacterial infections.
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- Yun Shen
- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- New England Regional Primate Research Center, Southboro, MA 01772, USA
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- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Battelle Medical Research and Evaluation Facility, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio 43201, USA
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- Battelle Medical Research and Evaluation Facility, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio 43201, USA
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- Battelle Medical Research and Evaluation Facility, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio 43201, USA
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- New England Regional Primate Research Center, Southboro, MA 01772, USA
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- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Interdisciplinary Group on Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Tuberculosis Research Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Storset AK, Berntsen G, Larsen HJ. Kinetics of IL-2 receptor expression on lymphocyte subsets from goats infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis after specific in vitro stimulation. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2000; 77:43-54. [PMID: 11068065 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2427(00)00227-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Quantification of surface IL-2R expression on activated lymphocytes by flow cytometry have recently been reported to be useful in measuring cellular immunity against Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in goats (Whist et al., 2000, Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 73, 207-218). To characterise the phenotype of the peripheral lymphocytes expressing IL-2R after in vitro stimulation with purified protein derivative (PPD) from M. a. paratuberculosis, cells were processed for dual or triple colour analysis by flow cytometry (CD4 and IL-2R or CD8, gammadelta-TcR and IL-2R). To distinguish the response of antigen-specific T cells from non-specific stimulation, we performed a time-course study of proliferating cells in a group of M. a. paratuberculosis-infected animals and a control group. Following in vitro stimulation with PPD of whole blood for three different periods of time, IL-2R expression was detected mainly not only in gammadelta-T cells, but also in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. We found a specific response of gammadelta-T cells from infected animals after 24h of stimulation. Following 120h of stimulation, however, gammadelta-T cells from control animals up-regulated IL-2R to the same level as those from infected animals, indicating either a non-specific stimulation or activation due to a first line of defence against Mycobacterium antigens. The CD4+ cells showed a specific response to PPD stimulation at all three time points. A minor population of antigen reactive gammadelta+ cells also expressed CD8. The proliferative responses differed between alphabeta and gammadelta-T cells; the IL-2R+ alphabeta T cell population mainly comprised proliferating cells, while the gammadelta+ population showed less expansion.
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- A K Storset
- Department of Pharmacology, Microbiology and Food Hygiene, The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, PO Box 8146, N-0033, Oslo, Norway.
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Signorini S, Pirovano S, Fiorentini S, Stellini R, Bianchi V, Albertini A, Imberti L. Restriction of T-cell receptor repertoires in idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia. Br J Haematol 2000; 110:434-7. [PMID: 10971404 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.02166.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We report that alpha/beta and gamma/delta T-cell repertoires of three patients with idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia, who showed different clinical manifestations and outcomes over time, were highly restricted. The disruption of T-cell repertoires does not influence the susceptibility to infections: the first patient was unable to attain a protective response to mycobacterium, the second showed clinical improvement and the third did not develop opportunistic infections. These results indicate that idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia could give rise to mono-/oligoclonal T-cell expansions, but the degree of repertoire disturbance is not indicative of the severity of disease progression.
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- S Signorini
- Terzo Laboratorio Analisi, Spedali Civili and Institute of Chemistry, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Airò P, Caruso A, Stellini R, Antonioli C, Malacarne F, Licenziati S, Albertini A, Cattaneo R, Imberti L. Characterization of gammadelta T cells expressing CD158b, a killer cell inhibitory receptor, in a patient with chronic CD4(+) lymphocytopenia and disseminated Mycobacterium intracellulare infection. Clin Immunol 2000; 96:67-75. [PMID: 10873429 DOI: 10.1006/clim.2000.4869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A population of Vdelta1(+)Vgamma9(-) gammadelta T cells that represented almost the totality (84%) of circulating lymphocytes in a patient with chronic, non-HIV-related, CD4 lymphocytopenia complicated by a disseminated Mycobacterium intracellulare infection was characterized. These gammadelta(+) T cells expressed a single killer inhibitory receptor (CD158b) and their phenotype (CD8(+)CD57(+)CD27(-)CD28(-)) indicated that, although CD45RA(+), they were not naive. However, the absence of large granular lymphocyte morphology, the impaired proliferative activity, the high susceptibility to apoptosis, and the total lack of cytotoxic ability suggested that these gammadelta cells were in a resting state. A high percentage of the cells did not harbor the CD11b integrin alpha chain and exhibited a decreased capability to bind endothelial cells. This defect might represent the mechanism whereby they remained trapped in the circulation.
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MESH Headings
- Antigens, CD/classification
- Apoptosis/immunology
- CD28 Antigens/immunology
- CD8 Antigens/immunology
- Cell Adhesion
- Cell Division
- Chronic Disease
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/immunology
- Endothelium, Vascular/cytology
- Female
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Macrophage-1 Antigen/immunology
- Middle Aged
- Mycobacterium avium Complex/immunology
- Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection/blood
- Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection/complications
- Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/immunology
- Receptors, Immunologic/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Immunologic/immunology
- Receptors, KIR
- Receptors, KIR2DL3
- T-Lymphocytopenia, Idiopathic CD4-Positive/blood
- T-Lymphocytopenia, Idiopathic CD4-Positive/complications
- T-Lymphocytopenia, Idiopathic CD4-Positive/immunology
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- P Airò
- Servizio di Immunologia Clinica, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
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Since the first descriptions of mycobacterial reactivity for gammadelta T cells in 1989, studies of gammadelta T-cell responses to M. tuberculosis in humans and animal models have increased our understanding of the complex role(s) of this T-cell subset not only in the immune response to M. tuberculosis, but also to microbial pathogens in general. Although CD4+ T cells remain the dominant and critical T-cell subset in protection against M. tuberculosis, gammadelta T cells appear to have an important complementary role, which may be primarily expressed in and around maturing granulomas. This is a difficult area to study in humans. Gammadelta T cells are potent sources of IFN-gamma and competent cytotoxic effector cells, but differ from CD4+ T cells in the antigens they recognize and the manner in which M. tuberculosis-infected macrophages process and present antigens to these two subsets. One of the most fascinating features of Vgamma9/Vgamma2+ gammadelta T cells is their responsiveness to non-peptidic molecules. Solving the mechanism(s) of antigen recognition and presentation of these molecules to gammadelta T cells should help determine whether gammadelta T cells are responding to universal 'supernatigen'-like motifs expressed by a broad range of microbes or in fact discriminate among a diversity of peptidic and nonpeptidic microbial antigens. Enhanced understanding of the function of and antigen recognition by Vgamma9+/Vgamma2+ T cells is not only important for immunity to M. tuberculosis but also for T-cell responses to microbial pathogens in general.
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- W H Boom
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4893, USA
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Gougeon ML, Boullier S, Colizzi V, Poccia F. NKR-mediated control of gammadelta T-cell immunity to viruses. Microbes Infect 1999; 1:219-26. [PMID: 10801233 DOI: 10.1016/s1286-4579(99)80037-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- M L Gougeon
- Département SIDA et Rétrovirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Kopacz J, Kumar N. Murine gamma delta T lymphocytes elicited during Plasmodium yoelii infection respond to Plasmodium heat shock proteins. Infect Immun 1999; 67:57-63. [PMID: 9864196 PMCID: PMC96277 DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.1.57-63.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/1998] [Accepted: 10/07/1998] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
gamma delta T cells accumulate during Plasmodium infections in both murine and human malarias. The biological role of these cells and the antigens that they recognize are not clearly understood, although recent findings indicate that gamma delta T cells in general influence both innate and antigen-specific adaptive host responses. We examined the accumulation of gamma delta T cells elicited during infection with virulent and avirulent Plasmodium yoelii parasites in relatively susceptible and resistant strains of mice. Our results indicated that in nonlethal malaria infections, gamma delta T cells comprise a larger proportion of splenic T cells than in lethal infections and that only a live infection is capable of inducing an increase in the percentage of gamma delta T cells in vivo. Furthermore, we demonstrate that gamma delta T cells elicited during a P. yoelii infection respond by proliferation in vitro to P. falciparum heat shock proteins (HSPs) of 60 and 70 kDa, suggesting a possible immunological involvement of parasite HSPs in this arm of the cellular immune response during malarial infection in mice.
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- J Kopacz
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Boullier S, Poquet Y, Halary F, Bonneville M, Fournie JJ, Gougeon ML. Phosphoantigen activation induces surface translocation of intracellular CD94/NKG2A class I receptor on CD94- peripheral Vgamma9 Vdelta2 T cells but not on CD94- thymic or mature gammadelta T cell clones. Eur J Immunol 1998; 28:3399-410. [PMID: 9842883 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199811)28:11<3399::aid-immu3399>3.0.co;2-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Most adult peripheral blood gammadelta T cells express Vgamma9/Vdelta2-encoded TCR that recognize a restricted set of nonpeptidic phosphorylated compounds, referred to as phosphoantigens. They also express various MHC class I-specific inhibitory receptors (IR), in particular CD94/ NKG2-A heterodimers, which participate in the fine tuning of their TCR-mediated activation threshold. Most mature Vgamma9/Vdelta2 T cells express surface CD94 receptors, unlike cord blood or thymus-derived Vgamma9/Vdelta2 clones, thus suggesting a role for the microenvironment in IR expression. In the present study we show that most CD94- Vgamma9Vdelta2 PBL ex vivo express an intracellular pool of CD94/NKG2-A receptors that is translocated to the cell surface upon activation by phosphoantigens or IL-2. In stark contrast, intracellular CD94/NKG2-A complexes are undetectable in CD94- thymus or PBL-derived mature Vdelta2 T cell clones, and no surface induction is observed following phosphoantigen activation of T cell clones. Altogether these results provide new insights into the regulation of CD94/NKG2-A expression on T lymphocytes and suggest the existence of distinct mechanisms controlling in vivo and in vitro induction of IR on these cells.
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- S Boullier
- Unité d'Oncologie Virale, Département SIDA et Rétrovirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Manfredi AA, Heltai S, Rovere P, Sciorati C, Paolucci C, Galati G, Rugarli C, Vaiani R, Clementi E, Ferrarini M. Mycobacterium tuberculosis exploits the CD95/CD95 ligand system of gammadelta T cells to cause apoptosis. Eur J Immunol 1998; 28:1798-806. [PMID: 9645360 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199806)28:06<1798::aid-immu1798>3.0.co;2-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Vgamma9/Vdelta2+ T cells specifically recognize Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro and are precociously recruited in early mycobacterial lesions. Even if gammadelta T cells are only fortuitously detected in granulomas or bronchoalveolar lavages of patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis, a role in shaping the mature alphabeta T cell response against M. tuberculosis is substantiated. Here we provide a molecular explanation for this paradox: the engagement of the gammadelta TCR by mycobacterial antigens induced the expression of CD95 ligand (CD95L) by chronically activated CD95+/CD95L- gammadelta T lymphocytes. The receptor was functional, as CD95/CD95L interaction triggered the bystander death of CD95+ cells by apoptosis. Cell death was abolished by CD95-blocking antibodies. The transient accumulation at the site of infection of CD95L+ gammadelta lymphocytes, capable of interacting with CD95+ leukocytes attracted by the response towards the pathogen, may determine the characteristics of the ensuing granulomatous disease.
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- A A Manfredi
- Laboratory of Tumor Immunology, Scientific Institute HS. Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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