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AIDS
卷 19, 期 16, 页码 1761-1769出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000183632.12418.33
关键词
HIV-1; natural killer cells; viraemia; NKG receptors; highly active antiretroviral therapy
资金
- Medical Research Council [G0501957] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
Background: HIV-1 infection is characterized by increase in inhibitory receptors and loss of activating receptors on natural killer (NK) cells, resulting in loss of cell activity. Exceptionally, for an inhibitory receptor, the proportion of NK cells bearing CD94-NKG2A decreases during HIV-1 infection. It is not understood whether HIV-1 itself or other concomitant infections drive these changes. Objectives; To investigate the relationship between HIV-1 viraemia and changes in C-type lectin-like receptor expression in NK cells and to investigate the effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) on these changes. Methods: Three cohorts of patients were studied: (1) before, during and after treatment interruption in aviraemic and viraemic patients receiving HAART (n = 15); (2) HIV-1-positive treatment-naive individuals (n = 13); and (3) HIV-1-positive individuals receiving successful HAART for a minimum of 1 year without interruption (n = 11). Flow cytometry was used to study the expression of NKG2A before and after treatment interruption and to define expanded populations of NK cells in untreated and treated HIV-1-positive individuals. Assays were performed in vitro to assess the cytotoxicity of the expanded populations. Results: Increases in plasma HIV-1 RNA during treatment interruption in aviraemic HAART-treated individuals did not influence the proportion of INK cells carrying the complex CD94-NKG2A. Loss of NKG2A NK cells corresponded to the dramatic expansion of a distinct population of cells expressing a functional activating CD94-NKG2C receptor with skewed expression of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor family and natural cytotoxicity receptors. Conclusion: Changes in the INK cell repertoire during HIV-1 infection were not a result of HIV-1 viraemia alone but resembled those associated with concomitant infections. (c) 2005 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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