TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonprogressing HIV-infected children share fundamental immunological features of nonpathogenic SIV infection
AU - Muenchhoff, Maximilian
AU - Adland, Emily
AU - Karimanzira, Owen
AU - Crowther, Carol
AU - Pace, Matthew
AU - Csala, Anna
AU - Leitman, Ellen
AU - Moonsamy, Angeline
AU - McGregor, Callum
AU - Hurst, Jacob
AU - Groll, Andreas
AU - Mori, Masahiko
AU - Sinmyee, Smruti
AU - Thobakgale, Christina
AU - Tudor-Williams, Gareth
AU - Prendergast, Andrew J.
AU - Kloverpris, Henrik
AU - Roider, Julia
AU - Leslie, Alasdair
AU - Shingadia, Delane
AU - Brits, Thea
AU - Daniels, Samantha
AU - Frater, John
AU - Willberg, Christian B.
AU - Walker, Bruce D.
AU - Ndung'u, Thumbi
AU - Jooste, Pieter
AU - Moore, Penny L.
AU - Morris, Lynn
AU - Goulder, Philip
PY - 2016/9/28
Y1 - 2016/9/28
N2 - Disease-free infection in HIV-infected adults is associated with human leukocyte antigen-mediated suppression of viremia, whereas in the sooty mangabey and other healthy natural hosts of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), viral replication continues unabated. To better understand factors preventing HIV disease, we investigated pediatric infection, where AIDS typically develops more rapidly than in adults. Among 170 nonprogressing antiretroviral therapy-naïve children aged >5 years maintaining normal-for-Age CD4 T cell counts, immune activation levels were low despite high viremia (median, 26,000 copies/ml). Potent, broadly neutralizing antibody responses in most of the subjects and strong virus-specific T cell activity were present but did not drive pediatric nonprogression. However, reduced CCR5 expression and low HIV infection in long-lived central memory CD4 T cells were observed in pediatric nonprogressors. These children therefore express two cardinal immunological features of nonpathogenic SIV infection in sooty mangabeys-low immune activation despite high viremia and low CCR5 expression on long-lived central memory CD4 T cells-suggesting closer similarities with nonpathogenetic mechanisms evolved over thousands of years in natural SIV hosts than those operating in HIV-infected adults.
AB - Disease-free infection in HIV-infected adults is associated with human leukocyte antigen-mediated suppression of viremia, whereas in the sooty mangabey and other healthy natural hosts of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), viral replication continues unabated. To better understand factors preventing HIV disease, we investigated pediatric infection, where AIDS typically develops more rapidly than in adults. Among 170 nonprogressing antiretroviral therapy-naïve children aged >5 years maintaining normal-for-Age CD4 T cell counts, immune activation levels were low despite high viremia (median, 26,000 copies/ml). Potent, broadly neutralizing antibody responses in most of the subjects and strong virus-specific T cell activity were present but did not drive pediatric nonprogression. However, reduced CCR5 expression and low HIV infection in long-lived central memory CD4 T cells were observed in pediatric nonprogressors. These children therefore express two cardinal immunological features of nonpathogenic SIV infection in sooty mangabeys-low immune activation despite high viremia and low CCR5 expression on long-lived central memory CD4 T cells-suggesting closer similarities with nonpathogenetic mechanisms evolved over thousands of years in natural SIV hosts than those operating in HIV-infected adults.
U2 - 10.1126/scitranslmed.aag1048
DO - 10.1126/scitranslmed.aag1048
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27683550
AN - SCOPUS:84989829797
SN - 1946-6234
VL - 8
JO - Science Translational Medicine
JF - Science Translational Medicine
IS - 358
M1 - 358ra125
ER -