PMID- 22219223 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120525 LR - 20220316 IS - 1528-0020 (Electronic) IS - 0006-4971 (Print) IS - 0006-4971 (Linking) VI - 119 IP - 13 DP - 2012 Mar 29 TI - Selective expansion of polyfunctional pathogen-specific CD4(+) T cells in HIV-1-infected patients with immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. PG - 3105-12 LID - 10.1182/blood-2011-09-380840 [doi] AB - Since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies (ART), the prognosis for HIV-1 patients has improved immensely. However, approximately 25% of patients can experience a variety of inflammatory symptoms that are collectively known as immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS). Studying the etiology and immunopathology of IRIS has been hampered by the fact that the symptoms and associated opportunistic infections are highly varied. We hypothesized that there is a common mechanism underlying IRIS pathogenesis and investigated a patient group with IRIS related to different pathogens. Functional and phenotypic characterization of PBMC samples was performed by polychromatic flow cytometry after in vitro stimulation with relevant antigenic preparations. In most patients, IRIS events were characterized by the robust increase of preexisting polyfunctional, highly differentiated effector CD4(+) T-cell responses that specifically targeted the antigens of the underlying co-infection. T-cell responses to HIV-1 or other underlying infections were not affected and did not differ between IRIS and non-IRIS patients. These data suggest that patients with IRIS do not have a generalized T-cell dysfunction; instead, IRIS represents a dysregulated CD4(+) T-cell response against residual opportunistic infection antigen. These studies were registered at www.clinical-trials.gov as NCT00557570 and NCT00286767. FAU - Mahnke, Yolanda D AU - Mahnke YD AD - ImmunoTechnology Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. FAU - Greenwald, Jamieson H AU - Greenwald JH FAU - DerSimonian, Rebecca AU - DerSimonian R FAU - Roby, Gregg AU - Roby G FAU - Antonelli, Lis R V AU - Antonelli LR FAU - Sher, Alan AU - Sher A FAU - Roederer, Mario AU - Roederer M FAU - Sereti, Irini AU - Sereti I LA - eng SI - ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT00286767 SI - ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT00557570 GR - Intramural NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural DEP - 20120104 PL - United States TA - Blood JT - Blood JID - 7603509 SB - IM CIN - Blood. 2012 Mar 29;119(13):2971-2. PMID: 22461468 MH - AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/blood/etiology/immunology MH - Adult MH - CD4 Lymphocyte Count MH - CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*immunology/pathology MH - CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology/pathology MH - *Cell Proliferation MH - Female MH - HIV Infections/blood/complications/*immunology/virology MH - HIV-1/*immunology/pathogenicity/physiology MH - Humans MH - Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome/blood/etiology/*immunology/virology MH - Longitudinal Studies MH - Male MH - T-Cell Antigen Receptor Specificity/immunology MH - Viral Load PMC - PMC3321870 EDAT- 2012/01/06 06:00 MHDA- 2012/05/26 06:00 PMCR- 2013/03/29 CRDT- 2012/01/06 06:00 PHST- 2012/01/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/01/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/05/26 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/03/29 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0006-4971(20)49179-7 [pii] AID - 2011/380840 [pii] AID - 10.1182/blood-2011-09-380840 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Blood. 2012 Mar 29;119(13):3105-12. doi: 10.1182/blood-2011-09-380840. Epub 2012 Jan 4.