Department of Experimental Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 1M9, Canada;
Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
J Immunol. 2020 Nov 15;205(10):2618-2628. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2000040. Epub 2020 Oct 16.
In both high- and low-income countries, HIV-negative children born to HIV-positive mothers (HIV exposed, uninfected [HEU]) are more susceptible to severe infection than HIV-unexposed, uninfected (HUU) children, with altered innate immunity hypothesized to be a cause. Both the gut microbiome and systemic innate immunity differ across biogeographically distinct settings, and the two are known to influence each other. And although the gut microbiome is influenced by HIV infection and may contribute to altered immunity, the biogeography of immune-microbiome correlations among HEU children have not been investigated. To address this, we compared the innate response and the stool microbiome of 2-y-old HEU and HUU children from Belgium, Canada, and South Africa to test the hypothesis that region-specific immune alterations directly correlate to differences in their stool microbiomes. We did not detect a universal immune or microbiome signature underlying differences between HEU versus HUU that was applicable to all children. But as hypothesized, population-specific differences in stool microbiomes were readily detected and included reduced abundances of short-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria in Canadian HEU children. Furthermore, we did not identify innate immune-microbiome associations that distinguished HEU from HUU children in any population. These findings suggest that maternal HIV infection is independently associated with differences in both innate immunity and the stool microbiome in a biogeographical population-specific way.
在高收入和低收入国家,HIV 阳性母亲所生的 HIV 阴性儿童(HIV 暴露但未感染[HEU])比 HIV 未暴露的未感染儿童(HUU)更容易受到严重感染,这被假设是先天免疫改变的原因。肠道微生物组和全身先天免疫在不同的生物地理环境中存在差异,并且已知两者相互影响。尽管肠道微生物组受 HIV 感染的影响并可能导致免疫改变,但尚未研究 HEU 儿童的免疫-微生物组相关性的生物地理分布。为了解决这个问题,我们比较了来自比利时、加拿大和南非的 2 岁 HEU 和 HUU 儿童的先天反应和粪便微生物组,以检验以下假设:即特定区域的免疫改变与他们粪便微生物组的差异直接相关。我们没有发现普遍存在的免疫或微生物组特征,能够区分 HEU 与 HUU 之间的差异适用于所有儿童。但是,正如假设的那样,我们很容易检测到粪便微生物组的人群特异性差异,包括加拿大 HEU 儿童中短链脂肪酸产生菌的丰度降低。此外,我们没有发现先天免疫-微生物组关联可以区分任何人群中的 HEU 与 HUU 儿童。这些发现表明,母源性 HIV 感染与先天免疫和粪便微生物组在生物地理人群特异性方面的差异独立相关。