Determinants of B-Cell Compartment Hyperactivation in European Adolescents Living With Perinatally Acquired HIV-1 After Over 10 Years of Suppressive Therapy

Copyright © 2022 Ruggiero, Pascucci, Cotugno, Domínguez-Rodríguez, Rinaldi, Tagarro, Rojo, Foster, Bamford, De Rossi, Nastouli, Klein, Morrocchi, Fatou, Smolen, Ozonoff, Di Pastena, Luzuriaga, Steen, Giaquinto, Goulder, Rossi, Levy, Pahwa, Palma and the EPIICAL Consortium..

Background: Despite a successful antiretroviral therapy (ART), adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV (PHIV) experience signs of B-cell hyperactivation with expansion of 'namely' atypical B-cell phenotypes, including double negative (CD27-IgD-) and termed age associated (ABCs) B-cells (T-bet+CD11c+), which may result in reduced cell functionality, including loss of vaccine-induced immunological memory and higher risk of developing B-cells associated tumors. In this context, perinatally HIV infected children (PHIV) deserve particular attention, given their life-long exposure to chronic immune activation.

Methods: We studied 40 PHIV who started treatment by the 2nd year of life and maintained virological suppression for 13.5 years, with 5/40 patients experiencing transient elevation of the HIV-1 load in the plasma (Spike). We applied a multi-disciplinary approach including immunological B and T cell phenotype, plasma proteomics analysis, and serum level of anti-measles antibodies as functional correlates of vaccine-induced immunity.

Results: Phenotypic signs of B cell hyperactivation were elevated in subjects starting ART later (%DN T-bet+CD11c+ p=0.03; %AM T-bet+CD11c+ p=0.02) and were associated with detectable cell-associated HIV-1 RNA (%AM T-bet+CD11c+ p=0.0003) and transient elevation of the plasma viral load (spike). Furthermore, B-cell hyperactivation appeared to be present in individuals with higher frequency of exhausted T-cells, in particular: %CD4 TIGIT+ were associated with %DN (p=0.008), %DN T-bet+CD11c+ (p=0.0002) and %AM T-bet+CD11c+ (p=0.002) and %CD4 PD-1 were associated with %DN (p=0.048), %DN T-bet+CD11c+ (p=0.039) and %AM T-bet+CD11c+ (p=0.006). The proteomic analysis revealed that subjects with expansion of these atypical B-cells and exhausted T-cells had enrichment of proteins involved in immune inflammation and complement activation pathways. Furthermore, we observed that higher levels of ABCs were associated a reduced capacity to maintain vaccine-induced antibody immunity against measles (%B-cells CD19+CD10- T-bet+, p=0.035).

Conclusion: We identified that the levels of hyperactivated B cell subsets were strongly affected by time of ART start and associated with clinical, viral, cellular and plasma soluble markers. Furthermore, the expansion of ABCs also had a direct impact on the capacity to develop antibodies response following routine vaccination.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in immunology - 13(2022), Seite 860418

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ruggiero, Alessandra [VerfasserIn]
Pascucci, Giuseppe Rubens [VerfasserIn]
Cotugno, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Domínguez-Rodríguez, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Rinaldi, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Tagarro, Alfredo [VerfasserIn]
Rojo, Pablo [VerfasserIn]
Foster, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Bamford, Alasdair [VerfasserIn]
De Rossi, Anita [VerfasserIn]
Nastouli, Eleni [VerfasserIn]
Klein, Nigel [VerfasserIn]
Morrocchi, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Fatou, Benoit [VerfasserIn]
Smolen, Kinga K [VerfasserIn]
Ozonoff, Al [VerfasserIn]
Di Pastena, Michela [VerfasserIn]
Luzuriaga, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
Steen, Hanno [VerfasserIn]
Giaquinto, Carlo [VerfasserIn]
Goulder, Philip [VerfasserIn]
Rossi, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Levy, Ofer [VerfasserIn]
Pahwa, Savita [VerfasserIn]
Palma, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
EPIICAL Consortium [VerfasserIn]
Cotton, Mark [Sonstige Person]
Barnabas, Shaun [Sonstige Person]
Puthanakit, Thanyawee [Sonstige Person]
Kuhn, Louise [Sonstige Person]
Yates, Andrew [Sonstige Person]
Violari, Avy [Sonstige Person]
Otwombe, Kennedy [Sonstige Person]
Vaz, Paula [Sonstige Person]
Lain, Maria Grazia [Sonstige Person]
Nampossa, Tacilta [Sonstige Person]
Naniche, Denise [Sonstige Person]
Fernandez-Luis, Sheila [Sonstige Person]
Lopez, Elisa [Sonstige Person]
Peay, Holly [Sonstige Person]
Spyer, Moira [Sonstige Person]
Calvez, Vincent [Sonstige Person]
Marcelin, Anne-Genevieve [Sonstige Person]
Munoz, Maria Angeles [Sonstige Person]
Dalzini, Annalisa [Sonstige Person]
Petrara, Raffaella [Sonstige Person]
Gartner, Kathleen [Sonstige Person]
Armas, Lesley De [Sonstige Person]
Rajendra, Pahwa [Sonstige Person]
Pallikkuth, Suresh [Sonstige Person]
Persaud, Deborah [Sonstige Person]
Chomont, Nicolas [Sonstige Person]
Lichterfeld, Mathias [Sonstige Person]
Faggion, Silvia [Sonstige Person]
Pena, Daniel Gomez [Sonstige Person]
Oletto, Andrea [Sonstige Person]
Nardone, Alessandra [Sonstige Person]
Zangari, Paola [Sonstige Person]
Cesare, Silvia Di [Sonstige Person]
Medri, Chiara [Sonstige Person]
Kolesova, Olga [Sonstige Person]
Paganin, Carla [Sonstige Person]
James, William [Sonstige Person]
Lindfors-Rossi, Inger [Sonstige Person]
Hassan, Shrabon Samiur [Sonstige Person]
Mazzetto, Francesca [Sonstige Person]
Akisinku, Hellen [Sonstige Person]
Chingandu, Musakanya [Sonstige Person]
Rocchi, Francesca [Sonstige Person]
Pepponi, Ilaria [Sonstige Person]
De Boer, Rob J [Sonstige Person]
Schroter, Juliane [Sonstige Person]
Giannuzzi, Viviana [Sonstige Person]
Yates, Andrew [Sonstige Person]
Morris, Sinead [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

B-cell hyperactivation
CD11c
CaHIV-1 RNA
Exhausted T-cells
Journal Article
Late ART
Perinatal HIV/AIDS
Proteomic profiling immune activation
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
T-bet
Vaccines

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Date Completed 19.04.2022

Date Revised 30.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fimmu.2022.860418

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM339618078