ICOS, SLAM and PD‐1 expression and regulation on T lymphocytes reflect the immune dysregulation in patients with HIV‐related illness with pulmonary tuberculosis

• Published in: Journal of the International AIDS Society 2012-04, Vol.15 (2), p.17428-n/a
• Main Authors: Jurado, Javier Oscar, Pasquinelli, Virginia, Alvarez, Ivana Belén, Martínez, Gustavo Javier, Laufer, Natalia, Sued, Omar, Cahn, Pedro, Musella, Rosa María, Abbate, Eduardo, Salomón, Horacio, Quiroga, María Florencia
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; AIDS; AIDS/HIV; Antigens; Antigens, CD - biosynthesis; Apoptosis; Care and treatment; Cell growth; Cell Proliferation; Complications and side effects; Cytokines; Cytokines - secretion; Deregulation; Development and progression; Evaluation; Gene Expression Profiling; Health aspects; HIV; HIV (Viruses); HIV infection; HIV Infections - complications; HIV patients; human; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; ICOS; Illnesses; Immune response; Inducible T-Cell Co-Stimulator Protein - biosynthesis; Infections; Investigations; Kinases; Lymphocyte transformation; Lymphocytes; PD‐1; Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor - biosynthesis; Proteins; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Receptors, Cell Surface - biosynthesis; Risk factors; Short Report; Signaling Lymphocytic Activation Molecule Family Member 1; SLAM; Statistical analysis; T cells; T-Lymphocytes - chemistry; T-Lymphocytes - immunology; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - immunology
• ISSN: 1758-2652; 1758-2652
• DOI: 10.7448/IAS.15.2.17428

Background Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the most frequent cause of illness and death from an infectious agent globally, and its interaction with HIV is having devastating effects. To investigate how HIV alters the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), we assessed basal and Mtb‐induced proliferation, cytokine production, and expression of signalling lymphocytic activation molecule (SLAM), inducible costimulator (ICOS) and programmed death‐1 (PD‐1) on T lymphocytes from HIV‐positive individuals coinfected with TB, HIV‐positive subjects, TB patients and healthy donors (HD). Findings HIV‐TB patients showed increased ICOS, SLAM and PD‐1 basal levels on T lymphocytes, whereas HIV‐positive individuals displayed elevated levels of SLAM and PD‐1, TB patients high levels of SLAM, and HD low levels of the three proteins. Mtb‐stimulation enhanced ICOS expression in the four groups, but only TB and HD increased SLAM and PD‐1 levels. Conclusions These data show the immune deregulation that takes place during the immune response against TB in different study populations.