Gut microbiota from high-risk men who have sex with men drive immune activation in gnotobiotic mice and in vitro HIV infection

Autor: Catherine A. Lozupone, Jennifer M. Schneider, Ka-Na Xiong, Kristine A. Kuhn, Sharon Sen, Martin D. McCarter, Charles Preston Neff, Nancy Moreno-Huizar, Abigail J. S. Armstrong, Erin Severs, Michael Shaffer, Sam X. Li, Thomas B. Campbell, Brent E. Palmer, Nichole M. Nusbacher
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
RNA viruses
Male
HIV Infections
Gut flora
CD38
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Men who have sex with men
Cohort Studies
White Blood Cells
Feces
Mice
Immunodeficiency Viruses
Animal Cells
RNA
Ribosomal
16S

Medicine and Health Sciences
Cytotoxic T cell
Biology (General)
0303 health sciences
T Cells
030302 biochemistry & molecular biology
virus diseases
Genomics
Middle Aged
3. Good health
medicine.anatomical_structure
Medical Microbiology
Viral Pathogens
Viruses
Infectious diseases
Female
Cellular Types
Anatomy
Pathogens
Research Article
Adult
DNA
Bacterial

Adolescent
Colon
QH301-705.5
Immune Cells
Sexual Behavior
Immunology
Men WHO Have Sex with Men
Cytotoxic T cells
Microbial Genomics
Viral diseases
In Vitro Techniques
Biology
Microbiology
Immune Activation
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Immune system
Virology
Retroviruses
Genetics
medicine
Animals
Germ-Free Life
Humans
Microbiome
Homosexuality
Male

Microbial Pathogens
Molecular Biology
Aged
030304 developmental biology
Lamina propria
Blood Cells
Lentivirus
Immunity
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
HIV
Cell Biology
RC581-607
biology.organism_classification
Gastrointestinal Microbiome
Gastrointestinal Tract
People and Places
Population Groupings
Parasitology
Immunologic diseases. Allergy
Digestive System
Sexuality Groupings
Zdroj: PLoS Pathogens, Vol 15, Iss 4, p e1007611 (2019)
PLoS Pathogens
ISSN: 1553-7374
1553-7366
Popis: Men who have sex with men (MSM) have differences in immune activation and gut microbiome composition compared with men who have sex with women (MSW), even in the absence of HIV infection. Gut microbiome differences associated with HIV itself when controlling for MSM, as assessed by 16S rRNA sequencing, are relatively subtle. Understanding whether gut microbiome composition impacts immune activation in HIV-negative and HIV-positive MSM has important implications since immune activation has been associated with HIV acquisition risk and disease progression. To investigate the effects of MSM and HIV-associated gut microbiota on immune activation, we transplanted feces from HIV-negative MSW, HIV-negative MSM, and HIV-positive untreated MSM to gnotobiotic mice. Following transplant, 16S rRNA gene sequencing determined that the microbiomes of MSM and MSW maintained distinct compositions in mice and that specific microbial differences between MSM and MSW were replicated. Immunologically, HIV-negative MSM donors had higher frequencies of blood CD38+ HLADR+ and CD103+ T cells and their fecal recipients had higher frequencies of gut CD69+ and CD103+ T cells, compared with HIV-negative MSW donors and recipients, respectively. Significant microbiome differences were not detected between HIV-negative and HIV-positive MSM in this small donor cohort, and immune differences between their recipients were trending but not statistically significant. A larger donor cohort may therefore be needed to detect immune-modulating microbes associated with HIV. To investigate whether our findings in mice could have implications for HIV replication, we infected primary human lamina propria cells stimulated with isolated fecal microbiota, and found that microbiota from MSM stimulated higher frequencies of HIV-infected cells than microbiota from MSW. Finally, we identified several microbes that correlated with immune readouts in both fecal recipients and donors, and with in vitro HIV infection, which suggests a role for gut microbiota in immune activation and potentially HIV acquisition in MSM.
Author summary The communities of commensal microbes that colonize the human gut comprise the gut microbiome, which has been shown to play a significant role in shaping the immune system. Recent studies have reported a distinct gut microbiome composition in men who have sex with men (MSM) exhibiting HIV-risk behaviors when compared with low-risk men who have sex with women (MSW), regardless of their HIV infection status. Whether these gut microbiome differences in high-risk MSM directly impact immune activation is important to understand since increased T cell activation is associated with increased HIV transmission risk and more severe disease. To test the immunological effect of the gut microbiome in MSM, we transplanted stool from HIV-negative MSW, HIV-negative high-risk MSM, and HIV-positive MSM to germ-free mice. DNA sequencing showed that specific microbiome differences associated with MSM were successfully engrafted in mice, and that these differences were associated with increased CD4+ and CD8+ T cell activation in the mice. These results provide evidence for a direct link between microbiome composition and immune activation in HIV-negative and HIV-positive MSM, and rationale for investigating the gut microbiome as a risk factor for HIV transmission.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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