Selective loss of CD107a TIGIT+ memory HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells in PLWH over a decade of ART

  1. Oscar Blanch-Lombarte
  2. Dan Ouchi
  3. Esther Jimenez-Moyano
  4. Julieta Carabelli
  5. Miguel Angel Marin
  6. Ruth Peña
  7. Adam Pelletier
  8. Aarthi Talla
  9. Ashish Sharma
  10. Judith Dalmau
  11. José Ramón Santos
  12. Rafick-Pierre Sékaly
  13. Bonaventura Clotet
  14. Julia G Prado  Is a corresponding author
  1. IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Spain
  2. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  3. Pathology Department, Case Western Reserve University, United States
  4. Lluita contra la SIDA Foundation, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Spain
  5. Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Spain
  6. Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Spain
  7. Faculty of Medicine, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), Spain
  8. CIBER Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
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Figure 1 with 2 supplements
Patterns of IRs co-expression and correlations with CD4+ T-cell counts in PLWH.

(A) Overview of study design and study groups, healthy controls (HC), PLWH in early HIV-1 infection (Ei), and PLWH on fully suppressive ART (S) in S1 and S2 time points. (B) The expression of IRs …

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Epidemiological and clinical data of study groups; healthy controls (HC), PLWH in early infection (Ei), and PLWH on fully suppressive ART (S) in S1 and S2 time points.

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Frequencies of IRs expression shown in pie charts as 0 to >3 IRs expressed in CD8+ T-cell subsets and study groups.

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Frequencies of the 32 possible combinations of expressions for TIGIT, PD-1, LAG-3, TIM-3, and CD39 in CD8+ T-cell subsets per study group.

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Frequencies of IRs expression in total and CD8+ T-cell subsets per study group.

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Correlations between CD4+ T-cell counts and TIGIT+, TIGIT+TIM-3+, and combinations of IRs in total and CD8+ T-cell subsets per study group.

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Figure 1—figure supplement 1
Gating strategy for identifying total CD8+ T-cell subsets and IRs expression levels.

(A) Zebra dot plots showing the gating strategy used for the identification of total CD8+ and cellular using lineage markers (CD45RA, CCR7, and CD27) subsets as follow; naive (CD45RA+ CCR7+ CD27+), …

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Expression profile of IRs in total and CD8+ T-cell subsets across study groups.

(A) Frequency of CD8+ T-cells and IRs expression in total CD8+ T cells across study groups (HC, Ei, S1 and S2) (B) Frequency of IRs expression in CD8+ T-cell subsets. Scatter plots represent median …

Unsupervised net-SNE analyses of total CD8+ T-cells.

(A) Gating strategy for selecting total CD8+ T-cells (top), net-SNE plots of HC, Ei, S1, S2 and all merge groups. (B) Representative net-SNE visualization of surface markers. The colour gradient …

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Unsupervised net-SNE analyses of total CD8+ T-cells.

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Cluster cell frequencies from net-SNE analyses in total CD8+ T-cells per study group.

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Figure 3 with 1 supplement
Unsupervised net-SNE analyses of SEB-activated CD8+ T-cells.

(A) Gating representation of CD107a, IFNγ and IL-2 expression in HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cells (top), net-SNE plots of HC, Ei, S1, S2 and merge groups of SEB-activated CD8+ T-cells (bottom). (B) …

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Unsupervised net-SNE analyses of SEB-activated CD8+ T-cells.

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Cluster cell frequencies from net-SNE analyses of SEB-activated CD8+ T-cells per study group.

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Supervised analyses of CD107a, IFNγ and IL-2 frequencies of SEB-activated CD8+ T-cells per study groups.

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Supervised analyses of SEB-activated CD8+ T-cells.

(A) The total frequency of CD107a, IFNγ and IL-2 SEB-activated CD8+ T-cells in HC, Ei, S1, and S2. Data represent median and interquartile ranges. (B) Table of median frequencies of CD107a, IFNγ and …

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Unsupervised and supervised analyses of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cells.

(A) Gating representation of CD107a, IFNγ, and IL-2 expression in HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cells (top), net-SNE plots of Ei, S1, S2 and merge groups for HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cells (bottom). (B) …

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Unsupervised net-SNE analyses of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cells.

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Cluster cell frequencies from net-SNE analyses of HIV-1-specific CD8+ Tcells per Ei and S (S1–S2) study groups.

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Supervised analyses of CD107a, IFNγ and IL-2 frequencies of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cells in Ei and S (S1–S2) study groups.

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Frequencies of CD107a, IFNγ, and IL-2 expression in TIGIT+ and TIGIT+ TIM-3+HIV-1-specific memory CD8+ T-cell subsets in Ei and S (S1–S2) study groups.

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Supervised analyses of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cell responses.

(A) Frequency of CD107a, IFNγ and IL-2 HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cells in Ei, S1 and S2. Data represent median and interquartile ranges. (B) Table of median frequencies of CD107a, IFNγ and IL-2 …

Effect of TIGIT, TIM-3, and TIGIT +TIM-3 mAb blockade in HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cell responses in PLWH on ART.

(A) Representative flow cytometry plots gated on CD8+ T-cells, in the absence of HIV-1 Gag stimulation (basal condition) and presence of HIV-1 Gag stimulation with isotype control, αTIGIT, αTIM-3, …

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Unsupervised net-SNE analyses for HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cells in PLWH on ART.

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Frequencies of CD107a, IFNγ, and IL-2 expression in total and subsets of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cells in PLWH on ART.

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Graphs represent paired comparisons of the frequency of live cells in PBMC samples in short-term ICB studies.

A. Graphs indicate the percentage of live cells in HIV-1 condition (Gag peptide pool) compared to HIV-1 + IgG2 isotype, HIV-1 + IgG1 isotype and HIV-1 + IgG2a+IgG1. B. Graphs indicate the % of live …

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