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Impaired B cells survival upon production of inflammatory cytokines by HIV-1 exposed follicular dendritic cells

Overview of attention for article published in Retrovirology, September 2016
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Title
Impaired B cells survival upon production of inflammatory cytokines by HIV-1 exposed follicular dendritic cells
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Retrovirology, September 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12977-016-0295-4
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Farideh Sabri, Alejandro Prados, Raquel Muñoz-Fernández, Rebecka Lantto, Pablo Fernandez-Rubio, Aikaterini Nasi, Sylvie Amu, Jan Albert, Enrique Garcia Olivares, Francesca Chiodi

Abstract

Follicular dendritic cells (FDCs) are important components in the organization of germinal centers in lymphoid tissue where, following antigen presentation, B cells differentiate into memory B cells. The possibility of establishing primary cell lines from FDCs isolated from lymphoid tissue paved the way for characterization of FDC biological properties. We exposed primary FDC cell lines to HIV-1 strains in vitro and studied changes in the chemo-attractive properties of FDCs and release of inflammatory cytokines. FDC lines expressed several known and putative HIV-1 receptors; viral genome was amplified in HIV-1 exposed FDCs which released low levels of p24 HIV-1 protein in culture supernatants, but were not definitely proven to be productively infected. Exposure of FDCs to HIV-1 strains did not change the expression of markers used to characterize these cells. HIV-1 exposed FDCs, however, changed the expression of chemo-attractants involved in cell recruitment at inflammatory sites and increased the production of several inflammatory cytokines. The inflammatory milieu created upon HIV-1 exposure of FDCs led to impaired B cell survival in vitro and reduced Ig production. FDC lines exposed to different HIV-1 strains, although not able to support productive HIV-1 replication, show an increased production of inflammatory cytokines. Our in vitro model of interactions between HIV-1 exposed FDC lines and B cells suggest that exposure of FDCs to HIV-1 in vivo can contribute to inflammation within germinal centers and that this pathological event may impair B cell survival and contribute to impaired B cell responses during HIV-1 infection.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 4%
Spain 1 4%
Unknown 24 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Lecturer 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 9 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Immunology and Microbiology 5 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 15%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 11 42%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 September 2016.
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#13,373,196
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#581
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#11
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