Tuberculosis Exacerbates HIV-1 Infection through IL-10/STAT3-Dependent Tunneling Nanotube Formation in Macrophages
The tuberculosis (TB) bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and HIV-1 act synergistically; however, the mechanisms by which Mtb exacerbates HIV-1 pathogenesis are not well known. Using in vitro and ex vivo cell culture systems, we show that human M(IL-10) anti-inflammatory macrophages, present...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Recursos: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/183500 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/183500 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | AIDS BIOMARKER CO-INFECTION HIV-1 IL-10 MACROPHAGE MONOCYTE MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS STAT3 TUBERCULOSIS TUNNELING NANOTUBES VIRAL SPREAD https://purl.org/becyt/ford/3.1 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/3 |
| Resumo: | The tuberculosis (TB) bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and HIV-1 act synergistically; however, the mechanisms by which Mtb exacerbates HIV-1 pathogenesis are not well known. Using in vitro and ex vivo cell culture systems, we show that human M(IL-10) anti-inflammatory macrophages, present in TB-associated microenvironment, produce high levels of HIV-1. In vivo, M(IL-10) macrophages are expanded in lungs of co-infected non-human primates, which correlates with disease severity. Furthermore, HIV-1/Mtb co-infected patients display an accumulation of M(IL-10) macrophage markers (soluble CD163 and MerTK). These M(IL-10) macrophages form direct cell-to-cell bridges, which we identified as tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) involved in viral transfer. TNT formation requires the IL-10/STAT3 signaling pathway, and targeted inhibition of TNTs substantially reduces the enhancement of HIV-1 cell-to-cell transfer and overproduction in M(IL-10) macrophages. Our study reveals that TNTs facilitate viral transfer and amplification, thereby promoting TNT formation as a mechanism to be explored in TB/AIDS potential therapeutics. Tuberculosis is a clear, yet confounding, risk factor for HIV-1-induced morbidity and mortality. In this issue, Souriant et al. reveal that a tuberculosis-associated microenvironment triggers IL-10/STAT3-dependent tunneling nanotube formation in M(IL-10) macrophages, which promotes HIV-1 exacerbation during co-infection. M(IL-10) macrophage accumulation is also observed in vivo in co-infected subjects. |
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