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Jiang J, Cao Z, Li B, Ma X, Deng X, Yang B, Liu Y, Zhai F, Cheng X. Disseminated tuberculosis is associated with impaired T cell immunity mediated by non-canonical NF-κB pathway. J Infect 2024; 89:106231. [PMID: 39032519 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2024.106231] [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: 02/21/2024] [Revised: 06/25/2024] [Accepted: 07/15/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES The mechanism that leads to disseminated tuberculosis in HIV-negative patients is still largely unknown. T cell subsets and signaling pathways that were associated with disseminated tuberculosis were investigated. METHODS Single-cell profiling of whole T cells was performed to identify T cell subsets and enriched signaling pathways that were associated with disseminated tuberculosis. Flow cytometric analysis and blocking experiment were used to investigate the findings obtained by transcriptome sequencing. RESULTS Patients with disseminated tuberculosis had depleted Th1, Tc1 and Tc17 cell subsets, and IFNG was the most down-regulated gene in both CD4 and CD8 T cells. Gene Ontology analysis showed that non-canonical NF-κB signaling pathway, including NFKB2 and RELB genes, was significantly down-regulated and was probably associated with disseminated tuberculosis. Expression of several TNF superfamily ligands and receptors, such as LTA and TNF genes, were suppressed in patients with disseminated tuberculosis. Blocking of TNF-α and soluble LTα showed that TNF-α was involved in IFN-γ production and LTα influenced TNF-α expression in T cells. CONCLUSIONS Impaired T cell IFN-γ response mediated by suppression of TNF and non-canonical NF-κB signaling pathways might be responsible for disseminated tuberculosis.
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- Jing Jiang
- Institute of Research, Beijing Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation and Immune Regulation, Senior Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of New Techniques of Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment, Institute of Tuberculosis Research, Senior Department of Tuberculosis, the Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Research, Beijing Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation and Immune Regulation, Senior Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Research, Beijing Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation and Immune Regulation, Senior Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of New Techniques of Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment, Institute of Tuberculosis Research, Senior Department of Tuberculosis, the Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of New Techniques of Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment, Institute of Tuberculosis Research, Senior Department of Tuberculosis, the Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of New Techniques of Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment, Institute of Tuberculosis Research, Senior Department of Tuberculosis, the Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of New Techniques of Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment, Institute of Tuberculosis Research, Senior Department of Tuberculosis, the Eighth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
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Tsukamoto T, Winslow DL. Predicting tuberculosis at antiretroviral therapy initiation: the combination of monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio and hemoglobin level may be a key. AIDS 2024; 38:115-117. [PMID: 38061021 DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000003736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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- Tetsuo Tsukamoto
- Department of Health Informatics, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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