Interleukin (IL)-12, especially in the presence of neutralizing anti-IL-4 monoclonal antibodies, primed CD45RO(-) T clones for high CCL3/macrophage-inflammatory protein-1alpha (MIP-1alpha) and CCL4/MIP-1beta levels. In CD4(+) and CD8(+) clones from two patients deficient for IL-12Rbeta1 (IL-12Rbeta1(-/-)), production of CCL3/MIP-1alpha and CCL4/MIP-1beta was defective. CD4(+) clones from two patients deficient for interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) R1 (IFN-gammaR1(-/-)) produced somewhat decreased CCL4/MIP-1beta levels. IL-12 failed to prime CD4(+) or CD8(+) healthy clones for high CCL5/regulated on activation, normal T expressed and secreted (RANTES) production, although its secretion was impaired in CD4(+) clones from IL-12Rbeta1(-/-) and IFN-gammaR1(-/-) patients. CCR5 surface expression was up-regulated in resting peripheral blood mononuclear cells and CD4(+) clones from both kinds of patients, rendering them more susceptible to CCR5-dependent (R5) HIV-1 infection. Neutralization of IFN-gamma increased CCR5 expression and decreased CC-chemokine secretion by CD4(+) clones from healthy and IL-12Rbeta1(-/-) individuals, suggesting an IFN-gamma-dependent control of CCR5 expression. These data provide the first documented analysis of chemokine secretion and chemokine receptor expression on T cells from IL-12 and IFN-gamma receptor-deficient patients and dissect the role of IL-12 and IFN-gamma on inducing inflammatory chemokine secretion and down-regulating CCR5 expression in human T cells.
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Front Immunol
January 2025
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, United States.
Epidemiological evidence suggests that post-menopausal women are more susceptible to HIV infection following sexual intercourse than are younger cohorts for reasons that remain unclear. Here, we evaluated how menopause-associated changes in CD4 T cell numbers and subsets as well as HIV coreceptor expression, particularly CCR5, in the endometrium (EM), endocervix (CX), and ectocervix (ECX) may alter HIV infection susceptibility. Using a tissue-specific mixed cell infection model, we demonstrate that while no changes in CD14 macrophage infection susceptibility were observed, CD4 T cell HIV-1 infection frequency increases following menopause in the EM, but not CX nor ECX.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe tropism of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) is determined by the use of either or both of the chemokine coreceptors CCR5 (R5) or CXCR4 (X4) for entry into the target cell. The ability of HIV-1 to bind R5 or X4 is determined primarily by the third variable loop (V3) of the viral envelope glycoprotein gp120. HIV-1 strains of pandemic group M contain an antisense gene termed , which overlaps outside the region encoding the V3 loop.
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Laboratorio de Pediatria Clinica (LIM36), Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Introduction: Chemokines and their receptors are essential for leukocyte migration to several tissues, including human milk. Here, we evaluated the homing of T and B lymphocyte subsets to breast milk in response to ongoing respiratory infections in the nursing infant.
Methods: Blood and mature milk were collected from healthy mothers of nurslings with respiratory infections (Group I) and from healthy mothers of healthy nurslings (Group C).
Antioxidants (Basel)
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Laboratory of Muscle Pathology, Fragility and Aging, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago 8370146, Chile.
Sarcopenia corresponds to a decrease in muscle mass and strength. CCL5 is a new myokine whose expression, along with the CCR5 receptor, is increased in sarcopenic muscle. Therefore, we evaluated whether CCL5 and CCR5 induce a sarcopenic-like effect on skeletal muscle tissue and cultured muscle cells.
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January 2025
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité Mixte de Recherche U1236, Université Rennes, Etablissement Français du Sang Bretagne, LabEx IGO, Rennes, France.
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Methods: Combination of mass cytometry on blood cells from 60 MS patients at diagnosis and 29 healthy controls, along with single cell RNA sequencing on paired blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 5 MS patients were used for myeloid cells detailing.
Results: Myeloid compartment study demonstrated an enrichment of a peculiar classical monocyte population in 22% of MS patients at the time of diagnosis.
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