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ArticleNature communications2024

Chronic inflammation degrades CD4 T cell immunity to prior vaccines in treated HIV infection.

Melissa Kießling, John J Cole, Sabrina Kübel, Paulina Klein, Klaus Korn, Amy R Henry, Farida Laboune, Slim Fourati, Ellen Harrer, Thomas Harrer and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. CD4Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Melissa KießlingInstitute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
John J ColeSchool of Infection & Immunity, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Sabrina KübelInstitute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0009-0002-5182-4109
Paulina KleinInstitute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Klaus KornInstitute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1891-2107
Amy R HenryHuman Immunology Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
Farida LabouneHuman Immunology Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
Slim FouratiDepartment of Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6609-7587
Ellen HarrerInfectious Disease and Immunodeficiency Section, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Thomas HarrerInfectious Disease and Immunodeficiency Section, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6945-3241
Daniel C DouekHuman Immunology Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5575-8634
Klaus ÜberlaInstitute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7822-3835
Krystelle Nganou-MakamdopInstitute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. krystelle.nganou@uk-erlangen.de.ORCID 0000-0003-4839-2886

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 401821119
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To date, our understanding of how HIV infection impacts vaccine-induced cellular immunity is limited. Here, we investigate inflammation, immune activation and antigen-specific T cell responses in HIV-uninfected and antiretroviral-treated HIV-infected people. Our findings highlight lower recall responses of antigen-specific CD4 T cells that correlate with high plasma cytokines levels, T cell hyperactivation and an altered composition of the T subsets enriched with more differentiated cells in the HIV-infected group. Transcriptomic analysis reveals that antigen-specific CD4 T cells of the HIV-infected group have a reduced expression of gene sets previously reported to correlate with vaccine-induced pathogen-specific protective immunity and further identifies a consistent impairment of the IFNα and IFNγ response pathways as mechanism for the functional loss of recall CD4 T cell responses in antiretroviral-treated people. Lastly, in vitro treatment with drugs that reduce inflammation results in higher memory CD4 T cell IFNγ responses. Together, our findings suggest that vaccine-induced cellular immunity may benefit from strategies to counteract inflammation in HIV infection.

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CD4-Positive T-LymphocytesHIV InfectionsInflammationInterferon-gammaAdultAIDS VaccinesChronic DiseaseCytokinesFemaleHIV-1HumansImmunity, CellularMaleMiddle AgedAIDS VaccinesCytokinesInterferon-gamma

Identifiers

PMID39587133
PMCPMC11589758

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