HIV Infection Is Associated with Loss of Anti-Inflammatory Alveolar Macrophages
- 14 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 205 (9), 2447-2455
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.2000361
Abstract
HIV type 1 is associated with pulmonary dysfunction that is exacerbated by cigarette smoke. Alveolar macrophages (AM) are the most prominent immune cell in the alveolar space. These cells play an important role in clearing inhaled pathogens and regulating the inflammatory environment; however, how HIV infection impacts AM phenotype and function is not well understood, in part because of their autofluorescence and the absence of well-defined surface markers. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of HIV infection on human AM and to compare the effect of smoking on their phenotype and function. Time-of-flight mass cytometry and RNA sequencing were used to characterize macrophages from human bronchoalveolar lavage of HIV-infected and -uninfected smokers and nonsmokers. We found that the frequency of CD163+ anti-inflammatory AM was decreased, whereas CD163−CCR7+ proinflammatory AM were increased in HIV infection. HIV-mediated proinflammatory polarization was associated with increased levels of inflammatory cytokines and macrophage activation. Conversely, smoking heightened the inflammatory response evident by change in the expression of CXCR4 and TLR4. Altogether, these findings suggest that HIV infection, along with cigarette smoke, favors a proinflammatory macrophage phenotype associated with enhanced expression of inflammatory molecules. Further, this study highlights time-of-flight mass cytometry as a reliable method for immunophenotyping the highly autofluorescent cells present in the bronchoalveolar lavage of cigarette smokers.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U01 HL121816, R01 HL138639, U01 HL121831)
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