Mouser, Emily EIM, Pollakis, Georgios ORCID: 0000-0002-9659-5461, Yazdanbakhsh, Maria, Harnett, William, de Jong, Esther C and Paxton, William A ORCID: 0000-0001-5200-0801
(2016)
Brugia malayi Antigen (BmA) Inhibits HIV-1 Trans-Infection but Neither BmA nor ES-62 Alter HIV-1 Infectivity of DC Induced CD4(+) Th-Cells.
PLOS ONE, 11 (1).
e0146527-.
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Abstract
One of the hallmarks of HIV-1 disease is the association of heightened CD4+ T-cell activation with HIV-1 replication. Parasitic helminths including filarial nematodes have evolved numerous and complex mechanisms to skew, dampen and evade human immune responses suggesting that HIV-1 infection may be modulated in co-infected individuals. Here we studied the effects of two filarial nematode products, adult worm antigen from Brugia malayi (BmA) and excretory-secretory product 62 (ES-62) from Acanthocheilonema viteae on HIV-1 infection in vitro. Neither BmA nor ES-62 influenced HIV-1 replication in CD4+ enriched T-cells, with either a CCR5- or CXCR4-using virus. BmA, but not ES-62, had the capacity to bind the C-type lectin dendritic cell-specific intercellular adhesion molecule-3-grabbing non-integrin (DC-SIGN) thereby inhibiting HIV-1 trans-infection of CD4+ enriched T-cells. As for their effect on DCs, neither BmA nor ES-62 could enhance or inhibit DC maturation as determined by CD83, CD86 and HLA-DR expression, or the production of IL-6, IL-10, IL-12 and TNF-α. As expected, due to the unaltered DC phenotype, no differences were found in CD4+ T helper (Th) cell phenotypes induced by DCs treated with either BmA or ES-62. Moreover, the HIV-1 susceptibility of the Th-cell populations induced by BmA or ES-62 exposed DCs was unaffected for both CCR5- and CXCR4-using HIV-1 viruses. In conclusion, although BmA has the potential capacity to interfere with HIV-1 transmission or initial viral dissemination through preventing the virus from interacting with DCs, no differences in the Th-cell polarizing capacity of DCs exposed to BmA or ES-62 were observed. Neither antigenic source demonstrated beneficial or detrimental effects on the HIV-1 susceptibility of CD4+ Th-cells induced by exposed DCs.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes, T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer, Animals, Brugia malayi, HIV-1, HIV Infections, Helminth Proteins, Antigens, Helminth |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2019 15:34 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:41 |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0146527 |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3044593 |