Cellular responses to MPT-51, GlcB and ESAT-6 among MDR-TB and active tuberculosis patients in Brazil.
Multi-drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (MDR-TB) may result from either insufficiency of the host cellular immune response or mycobacterial mechanisms of resistance. Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD8+ and CD4+ T lymphocytes from MDR-TB patients are poorly studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate CD4+IFN-gamma+, CD4+IL-10+, CD8(+)IFN-gamma+ and CD8+IL-10+ cell populations by flow cytometry in non-resistant TB and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients from mid-central Brazil after stimulation with MPT-51, GlcB and ESAT-6 recombinant antigens from M. tuberculosis in comparison to tuberculin skin test negative (TST) healthy individuals. Non-resistant TB patients present specific cellular responses (CD4 and CD8, both IFN-gamma and IL-10) to GlcB, MPT-51 and ESAT-6; while MDR-TB patients present only CD8+IFN-gamma+ responses to ESAT-6 and CD8+IL-10+ responses to GlcB and ESAT-6. The results show that MDR-TB patients present impaired specific CD4 IFN-gamma and IL-10 responses and increased/normal specific CD8 IFN-gamma and IL-10 responses. This suggests an important role for CD8 function in these patients.
de Araújo-Filho
João Alves
JA
Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Rua Delenda Rezende de Melo, S/No, Setor Universitário, Goiânia, Brazil.
Vasconcelos
Arioldo Carvalho
AC
Martins de Sousa
Eduardo
E
Kipnis
André
A
Ribeiro
Elisângela
E
Junqueira-Kipnis
Ana Paula
AP
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001938:Brazil; D016516:CD4-CD8 Ratio; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D018414:CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016753:Interleukin-10 / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000276:immunology*; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000276:immunology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000276:immunology*
D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C093276:ESAT-6 protein, Mycobacterium tuberculosis; C082911:MPT51 protein, Mycobacterium; D016753:Interleukin-10