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Nabila SEDDIKI National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of NSW,

Regulatory T cell abnormalities associated with aberrant CD4+ T-cell responses in HIV+ patients with immune reconstitution disease (IRD). Nabila SEDDIKI National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of NSW, Centre For Immunology. Immune Reconstitution Disease.

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Nabila SEDDIKI National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of NSW,

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  1. Regulatory T cell abnormalities associated with aberrant CD4+ T-cell responses in HIV+ patients with immune reconstitution disease (IRD) Nabila SEDDIKI National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of NSW, Centre For Immunology

  2. Immune Reconstitution Disease • Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) may have adverse effects in HIV patients who start when very immunodeficient (usually within two months); this results in an excessive inflammatory response referred to immune reconstitution disease (IRD) • IRD occurs more frequently in HIV-infected patients : • Who start ART with less than 100 CD4 (cells/L) • Who have more than 1 log10 viral load declinefrom baseline (< 2 months) • With prior opportunistic infection history (some patients with NO OI have been reported) • IRD has been associated with bacteria, viruses and fungi but mycobacterial IRD has been defined as an important cause of mortality • We postulated that deficits in T regulatory cell (Treg) numbers/function may be defective in these patients and are not able to turn off the excessive T cell responses

  3. Patients characteristics In a cross-sectional study including HIV+ patients with less than 50 CD4 (cells/l) before ART: 8 with mycobacterial IRD and 6 without IRD at wk0, wk4 and wk48 after starting ART

  4. IRD CD4+ T cells secrete high levels of IL-2 and IFN- ELISpot Intra cellular staining for cytokine IFN-

  5. High % of Foxp3+CD25+CD127lo CD4+ Treg in IRD vs healthy

  6. In vitro Treg in IRD proliferate extensively ex vivo *High IL-2 secretion in IRD may help Treg survival

  7. High proportion of CD4+ CD127lo cells in IRD vs HIV+ patients w/o IRD CD4+ CD25+ CD127lo CD25 CD4+ CD25- CD127lo CD4+ CD45RO+ CD25+ CD127lo CD25 CD4+ CD45RO+ CD25+ CD127hi

  8. - High IL-7 level might be due to the absence or decrease of its receptor IL-7R (CD127) High IL-7, IL-6 and IL-4 cytokine level in IRD vs controls

  9. IL-7 level remains high in IRD after immune reconstitution

  10. 3HTdR + - Irr APCs - anti-CD3 72h culture T cell proliferation Sp:Rc Sp:Rp Sc:Rc Sc:Rp Treg in IRD do not suppress efficiently CD4+ T cell proliferation Healthy control Patient CD25 CD127 - Treg from 3 patients have a defective function - CD4+ effectors from patient #3 are resistant to suppression

  11. Treg in IRD do not suppress efficiently inflammatory cytokine secretion In accordance with suppression of proliferation data … residual cytokine secretion (pg/ml) - Treg from 3 patients have a defective function - CD4+ effectors from patient #3 are resistant to suppression Abstract #: MOPEA020

  12. Treg in IRD do not produce sufficient IL-10 to suppress high inflammatory cytokine secretion residual cytokine secretion (pg/ml) Sufficient IL-10, regulatory cytokine, production is compromised in IRD patients probably due to the presence of high effector/inflammatory cytokine (IFN-, IL-6 and TNF-)

  13. IL-7, IL-4 and IL-15 inhibit suppressive Treg function Increased levels of IL-2, IL-4 and IL-7 found in the plasma of patients with IRD may help the pathogenic high proliferation of CD4+ T cell observed in these patients

  14. Summary • Significant expansion of CD127loFoxp3+CD25+Treg in HIV+ patients with IRD compared to HIV+ w/o IRD • higher ratio Treg to effector/memory subsets in IRD compared to patients w/o IRD • High proportion of CD4+ T cells with low IL-7R expression explaining probably the high IL-7 level in the plasma of these patients • In vitro suppression assays demonstrated abnormalities in the functional capacity of both suppressors and responders from these patients, and interestingly IL-10 secretion was diminished in patients • Increased levels of IL-4, IL-6 and IL-7 in plasma. Some of these cytokines strongly inhibited Treg suppression in vitro Despite the high Treg expansion in IRD, their ability to induce suppression and down regulate aberrant immune responses is compromised, probably due to an imbalance in regulatory versus effector cytokine (IFN- to IL-10) Abstract #: MOPEA020

  15. Acknowledgements Centre For Immunology and NCHECR Sarah Sasson John Zaunders Mee Ling Munier David van Bockel Suzanna Ip David Cooper Anthony Kelleher - St Vincents Hospital Patients Sarah Pett Debbie Mariott - Nepean Hospital Brigitte Nanan NHMRC

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