• Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. · Jun 2018

    HIV gp120 in the Lungs of Antiretroviral Therapy-treated Individuals Impairs Alveolar Macrophage Responses to Pneumococci.

    • Paul J Collini, Martin A Bewley, Mohamed Mohasin, Helen M Marriott, Robert F Miller, Anna-Maria Geretti, Apostolos Beloukas, Athanasios Papadimitropoulos, Robert C Read, Mahdad Noursadeghi, and David H Dockrell.
    • 1 The Florey Institute for Host-Pathogen Interactions and Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
    • Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2018 Jun 15; 197 (12): 1604-1615.

    RationalePeople living with HIV are at significantly increased risk of invasive pneumococcal disease, despite long-term antiretroviral therapy (ART). The mechanism explaining this observation remains undefined.ObjectivesTo determine if apoptosis-associated microbicidal mechanisms, required to clear intracellular pneumococci that survive initial phagolysosomal killing, are perturbed.MethodsAlveolar macrophages (AM) were obtained by BAL from healthy donors or HIV-1-seropositive donors on long-term ART with undetectable plasma viral load. Monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) were obtained from healthy donors and infected with HIV-1BaL or treated with gp120. Macrophages were challenged with opsonized serotype 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae and assessed for apoptosis, bactericidal activity, protein expression, and mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mROS). AM phenotyping, ultrasensitive HIV-1 RNA quantification, and gp120 measurement were also performed in BAL.Measurements And Main ResultsHIV-1BaL infection impaired apoptosis, induction of mROS, and pneumococcal killing by MDM. Apoptosis-associated pneumococcal killing was also reduced in AM from ART-treated HIV-1-seropositive donors. BAL fluid from these individuals demonstrated persistent lung CD8+ T lymphocytosis, and gp120 or HIV-1 RNA was also detected. Despite this, transcriptional activity in AM freshly isolated from people living with HIV was broadly similar to healthy volunteers. Instead, gp120 phenocopied the defect in pneumococcal killing in healthy MDM through post-translational modification of Mcl-1, preventing apoptosis induction, caspase activation, and increased mROS generation. Moreover, gp120 also inhibited mROS-dependent pneumococcal killing in MDM.ConclusionsDespite ART, HIV-1, via gp120, drives persisting innate immune defects in AM microbicidal mechanisms, enhancing susceptibility to pneumococcal disease.

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