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Partial recovery of senescence and differentiation disturbances in CD8(+) T cell effector-memory cells in HIV-1 infection after initiation of anti-retroviral treatment.

Immune senescence as well as disturbed CD8(+) T cell differentiation are a hallmark of chronic HIV infection. Here, we investigated to what extent immune senescence is reversible after initiation of anti-retroviral treatment (ART). Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from a cohort of HIV patients with different disease courses, including untreated viral controllers (n = 10), viral non-controllers (n = 16) and patients on ART (n = 20), were analysed and compared to uninfected controls (n = 25) by flow cytometry on bulk and HIV-specific major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I tetramer(+) CD8(+) T cells for expression of the memory markers CCR7 and CD45RO, as well as the senescence marker CD57 and the differentiation and survival marker CD127. Furthermore, a subset of patients was analysed longitudinally before and after initiation of ART. Frequencies of CD57(+) CD8(+) T cells decreased after initiation of ART in central memory (Tcm) but not in effector memory T cell populations (TemRO and TemRA). The frequency of CD127(+) CD8(+) cells increased in Tcm and TemRO. We observed a reduction of CD127(-) T cells in Tcm, TemRO and partially in TemRA subsets after initiation of ART. Importantly, HIV-specific CD8(+) TemRO cells predominantly displayed a CD127(-) CD57(+) phenotype in untreated HIV-patients, whereas the CD127(+) CD57(-) phenotype was under-represented in these patients. The frequency of the CD127(+) CD57(-) CD8(+) T cell subpopulation correlated strongly with absolute CD4(+) counts in HIV-infected patients before and after initiation of ART. These findings can be interpreted as a phenotypical correlate of CD8(+) memory T cell differentiation and the premature 'ageing' of the immune system, which was even observed in successfully virally suppressed HIV patients.

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