Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV‐1)–Specific CD4+T Cell Immunity togagin HIV‐1–Infected Individuals with Differential Disease Progression: Reciprocal Interferon‐γ and Interleukin‐10 Responses

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Abstract

The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific CD4(+) T cell response was investigated in 33 untreated HIV-1-infected individuals, using highly sensitive ELISPOT assays and intracellular flow cytometry. The median frequencies of interferon (IFN)-gamma-producing HIV-1 gag-specific CD4(+) T cells did not correlate significantly with control of viral replication or progression. HIV-1 gag-specific interleukin (IL)-4-producing cells were rarely detected. Circulating frequencies of CD4(+) T cells constitutively producing IL-10, however, were significantly higher in individuals with progression or active replication. In 17 of 30 HIV-1-infected individuals, gag antigen was observed to induce IL-10 production from CD4(+) T cells. In 2 individuals, early treatment of acute HIV-1 infection "rescued" low to undetectable gag-specific IFN-gamma-producing CD4(+) T cell responses and dramatically down-regulated constitutive IL-10 production from circulating CD4(+) T cells. The detection of HIV-1-specific IL-10-inducing CD4(+) T cells in HIV-1-infected individuals suggests that HIV-1 may directly subvert specific immune responses by IL-10 induction.

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