Journal
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 163, Issue 3, Pages 333-338Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2010.04269.x
Keywords
cytokines; HIV; regulatory T cells; transforming growth factor beta; tuberculosis
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- NIH [HL-51636, AI-95383]
- CFAR at CWRU [AI-36219]
- James B. Pendleton Charitable Trust
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Pleural tuberculosis (TB) remains a common presentation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection in HIV/TB dually infected subjects, and both cellular and acellular components of the pleural milieu promote HIV-1 replication; however, they remain uncharacterized. Using cytokine array of pleural fluid and real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and immunophenotype analysis, pleural fluid mononuclear cells (PFMC) were compared to systemic counterparts [i.e. plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC)]. Significant increases in pleural fluid cytokines compared to plasma were limited to interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, interferon (IFN)-gamma and transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta, and did not include other T helper type 1 (Th1) (IL-2, IL-15), Th2 or Th17 cytokines. Patterns and levels of cytokines were indistinguishable between pleural fluid from HIV/TB and TB patients. Forkhead box P3 (FoxP3) mRNA in PFMC was increased significantly and correlated highly with levels of IL-6 and IL-8, less with TGF-beta, and not with IFN-gamma. Among CD4 T cells, FoxP3-reactive CD25(hi) were increased in HIV/TB dually infected subjects compared to their PBMC, and up to 15% of FoxP3(+) CD25(hi) CD4 T cells were positive for IL-8 by intracellular staining. These data implicate a dominant effect of MTB infection (compared to HIV-1) at pleural sites of dual HIV/TB infection on the local infectious milieu, that include IL-6, IL-8, IFN-gamma and TGF-beta and regulatory T cells (T-reg). A correlation in expansion of T-reg with proinflammatory cytokines (IL-6 and IL-8) in pleural fluid was shown. T-reg themselves may promote the inflammatory cytokine milieu through IL-8.
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