Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Cell Rep. 2019 Feb 5;26(6):1409-1418.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.01.021.
Lung interstitial CD4+ T cells are critical for protection against pulmonary infections, but the fate of this population during HIV-1 infection is not well described. We studied CD4+ T cells in the setting of HIV-1 infection in human lung tissue, humanized mice, and a Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)/simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) nonhuman primate co-infection model. Infection with a CCR5-tropic strain of HIV-1 or SIV results in severe and rapid loss of lung interstitial CD4+ T cells but not blood or lung alveolar CD4+ T cells. This is accompanied by high HIV-1 production in these cells in vitro and in vivo. Importantly, during early SIV infection, loss of lung interstitial CD4+ T cells is associated with increased dissemination of pulmonary Mtb infection. We show that lung interstitial CD4+ T cells serve as an efficient target for HIV-1 and SIV infection that leads to their early depletion and an increased risk of disseminated tuberculosis.
肺间质 CD4+T 细胞对于预防肺部感染至关重要,但在 HIV-1 感染期间,该群体的命运尚未得到充分描述。我们在人类肺组织、人源化小鼠以及结核分枝杆菌(Mycobacterium tuberculosis,Mtb)/猴免疫缺陷病毒(Simian Immunodeficiency Virus,SIV)合并感染的非人类灵长类动物模型中研究了 HIV-1 感染背景下的 CD4+T 细胞。感染 CCR5 嗜性 HIV-1 或 SIV 会导致肺间质 CD4+T 细胞严重且快速地耗竭,而血液或肺肺泡 CD4+T 细胞不受影响。这伴随着这些细胞在体外和体内产生高水平的 HIV-1。重要的是,在 SIV 感染早期,肺间质 CD4+T 细胞的耗竭与肺部 Mtb 感染播散的增加有关。我们表明,肺间质 CD4+T 细胞是 HIV-1 和 SIV 感染的有效靶标,导致其早期耗竭和播散性结核的风险增加。