Dynamics of T-Lymphocyte Activation Related to Paradoxical Tuberculosis-Associated Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome in Persons With Advanced HIV
Rafael Tibúrcio, Beatriz Barreto-Duarte, Gopolan Naredren, Artur T L Queiroz, Selvaraj Anbalagan, Kaustuv Nayak, Narayanan Ravichandran, Rajasekaran Subramani, Lis R V Antonelli, Kumar Satagopan, Komathi Anbalagan, Brian O Porter, Alan Sher, Soumya Swaminathan, Irini Sereti, Bruno B Andrade, Rafael Tibúrcio, Beatriz Barreto-Duarte, Gopolan Naredren, Artur T L Queiroz, Selvaraj Anbalagan, Kaustuv Nayak, Narayanan Ravichandran, Rajasekaran Subramani, Lis R V Antonelli, Kumar Satagopan, Komathi Anbalagan, Brian O Porter, Alan Sher, Soumya Swaminathan, Irini Sereti, Bruno B Andrade
Abstract
Most persons living with HIV (PLWH) experience a significant restoration of their immunity associated with successful inhibition of viral replication after antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation. Nevertheless, with the robust quantitative and qualitative restoration of CD4+ T-lymphocytes, a fraction of patients co-infected with tuberculosis develop immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS), a dysregulated inflammatory response that can be associated with significant tissue damage. Several studies underscored the role of adaptive immune cells in IRIS pathogenesis, but to what degree T lymphocyte activation contributes to TB-IRIS development remains largely elusive. Here, we sought to dissect the phenotypic landscape of T lymphocyte activation in PLWH coinfected with TB inititating ART, focusing on characterization of the profiles linked to development of TB-IRIS. We confirmed previous observations demonstrating that TB-IRIS individuals display pronounced CD4+ lymphopenia prior to ART initiation. Additionally, we found an ART-induced increase in T lymphocyte activation, proliferation and cytotoxicity among TB-IRIS patients. Importantly, we demonstrate that TB-IRIS subjects display higher frequencies of cytotoxic CD8+ T lymphocytes which is not affected by ART. Moreover, These patients exhibit higher levels of activated (HLA-DR+) and profilerative (Ki-67+) CD4+ T cells after ART commencenment than their Non-IRIS counterparts. Our network analysis reveal significant negative correlations between Total CD4+ T cells counts and the frequencies of Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells in our study population which could suggest the existance of compensatory mechanisms for Mtb-infected cells elimination in the face of severe CD4+ T cell lymphopenia. We also investigated the correlation between T lymphocyte activation profiles and the abundance of several inflammatory molecules in plasma. We applied unsupervised machine learning techniques to predict and diagnose TB-IRIS before and during ART. Our analyses suggest that CD4+ T cell activation markers are good TB-IRIS predictors, whereas the combination of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells markers are better at diagnosing TB-IRIS patients during IRIS events Overall, our findings contribute to a more refined understanding of immunological mechanisms in TB-IRIS pathogenesis that may assist in new diagnostic tools and more targeted patient management.
Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00933790.
Keywords: IRIS pathogenesis; T cell activation; T lymphocytes; TB-HIV coinfection; inflammation.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Copyright © 2021 Tibúrcio, Barreto-Duarte, Naredren, Queiroz, Anbalagan, Nayak, Ravichandran, Subramani, Antonelli, Satagopan, Anbalagan, Porter, Sher, Swaminathan, Sereti and Andrade.
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