Infant Mycotoxin Exposure and Mucosal Immune Activation in HIV-Endemic South Afri

艾滋病毒流行的南非婴儿霉菌毒素暴露和粘膜免疫激活

• 批准号: 8454135
• 负责人: Lianna F Wood
• 金额: $ 3.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-02-15 至 2017-02-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8454135
• 关键词: Adult; Africa South of the Sahara; African; Age; Blood; Blood Circulation; Breast Feeding; Cells; Cereals; Cessation of life; Child; Childhood; Clinic; Clinical; Clinical Research; Cluster Analysis; Communities; Complex; Country; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Doctor of Philosophy; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Evaluation; Exposure to; Fellowship; Flow Cytometry; Food; Fumonisin B1; Goals; HIV; HIV Infections; Health; Health Policy; Human Milk; Immune; Immune response; Immune system; In Vitro; Individual; Infant; Infant Health; Infant Mortality; Infection; Infiltration; Laboratories; Lead; Life; Mentorship; Migration Assay; Modeling; Mothers; Mucositis; Mucous Membrane; Multivariate Analysis; Mycotoxins; Oral cavity; Oral mucous membrane structure; Peripheral; Plasma; Play; Population; Predisposition; Production; Proteins; Proteomics; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Regulation; Research; Resources; Role; Route; SIV; Sampling; Site; South Africa; Systems Biology; Tissues; Transcript; Translational Research; Vertical Disease Transmission; Viral; Work; base; chemokine; chemokine receptor; cytokine; cytotoxic; deoxynivalenol; experience; feeding; fungus; immune activation; immunoregulation; improved; in vivo; infant morbidity/mortality; insight; mortality; peripheral blood; pregnant; public health relevance; response; small molecule; transcriptomics; transmission process

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): At least 2 million South Africans live in informal settlements where nearly 20% of children die before the age of five. Infants in underdeveloped communities have elevated basal immune activation than their counterparts in developed countries, suggesting environmental factors may be responsible for this high mortality rate. Children in developing countries are frequently exposed to fungal, cytotoxic molecules, called mycotoxins, that can increase the pathogenisis of infections. In our study in Khayelitsha, South Africa, an informal settlement outside of Cape Town, we found a robust correlation between plasma Ochratoxin levels and proinflammatory cytokine and chemokine levels. Interestingly, mixed feeding, where breast milk is supplemented with other, potentially mycotoxin-contaminated foods, increases an infant's susceptibility to HIV by as much as 11 fold. I will use this known difference in HIV susceptibility to focus my study of mycotoxin-induced immune changes. Preliminary findings from our study of infant feeding practices in Khayelitsha shows a significantly larger CD4+ immune cell population in the oral mucosa of mixed fed infants, suggesting that mucosal inflammation may play a key role in increasing an infant's susceptibility to HIV. This study will investigate the role of mycotoxins in oral mucosa immune modulation, using ex vivo stimulations and samples from our infant feeding study in Khayelitsha. I hypothesize that mycotoxin exposure induces chemokine production in infant oral mucosa that preferentially recruits HIV target cells, increasing the susceptibility of the oral mucosa to HIV. y evaluation of mycotoxin exposure will focus on OTA, Deoxynivalenol (DON) and Fumonisin B1, the three mycotoxins that have been repeatedly shown to modulate immune responses in vitro and in vivo. Ex vivo stimulation of healthy, mycotoxin-unexposed, adult and infant blood and oral mucosa will be used to define the network of chemokines and chemokine receptors expressed by oral mucosa cells in response to stimulation with mycotoxins. Blood and oral mucosa samples from mixed fed infants in Khayelitsha will be used to elucidate the role of mycotoxin exposure on the immune state of South African infants. These studies will use a combination of transcriptomics, proteomics, flow cytometry and cell migration assays, which will be integrated into systems biology-based computational analyses and multivariate analyses to model the complex interaction between chemokines, cell recruitment and innate immune factors. The work outlined above will significantly improve our understanding of the impact of food contaminants on infant mortality in developing countries. Understanding the role of mycotoxins in modulating infant immune systems and identifying contaminants with the greatest impact on infant health will permit countries with limited resources to prioritize regulation of these specific contaminant and may lead to the identification of other environmental immune-modulating agents that impact infant morbidity and mortality in the developing world.

描述（由申请人提供）：至少有200万南非人居住在非正式定居点中，近20％的儿童在五岁之前死亡。与发达国家的婴儿相比，欠发达社区的婴儿基础免疫激活升高，这表明环境因素可能导致这种高死亡率。发展中国家的儿童经常暴露于真菌，细胞毒性分子，称为霉菌毒素，会增加感染的病原体。在我们在开普敦以外的非正式定居点Khayelitsha的研究中，我们发现血浆尾毒素水平与促炎性细胞因子和趋化因子水平之间存在牢固的相关性。有趣的是，混合喂养的母乳补充了其他潜在的霉菌毒素污染的食物，使婴儿对HIV的易感性增加了多达11倍。我将使用这种已知的HIV敏感性差异来集中于霉菌毒素诱导的免疫变化的研究。我们对Khayelitsha婴儿喂养实践的研究的初步发现表明，混合食用婴儿的口腔粘膜中CD4+免疫细胞群明显更大，这表明粘膜炎症可能在增加婴儿对HIV的易感性中起关键作用。这项研究将使用我们在Khayelitsha婴儿喂养研究中的离体刺激和样本来研究霉菌毒素在口服粘膜免疫调节中的作用。我假设霉菌毒素暴露会诱导婴儿口服粘膜的趋化因子产生，该粘膜优先募集HIV靶细胞，从而增加了口腔粘膜对HIV的敏感性。 y对霉菌毒素暴露的评估将集中于OTA，脱氧烯醇（DON）和富莫尼蛋白B1，这三种霉菌毒素已反复证明可以在体外和体内调节免疫反应。对健康，霉菌毒素无暴露，成年和婴儿血液以及口服粘膜的体内刺激将用于定义口服粘膜细胞表达的趋化因子和趋化因子受体网络，以响应霉菌毒素刺激。来自Khayelitsha混合食婴儿的血液和口服粘膜样品将用于阐明霉菌毒素暴露在南非婴儿免疫状态的作用。这些研究将结合转录组学，蛋白质组学，流式细胞仪和细胞迁移测定法，这些分析将集成到基于系统生物学的计算分析和多变量分析中，以模拟趋化因子，细胞募集和先天免疫因子之间的复杂相互作用。上面概述的工作将大大提高我们对粮食污染物对发展中国家婴儿死亡率的影响的理解。了解霉菌毒素在调节婴儿免疫系统中的作用，并确定对婴儿健康影响最大的污染物，将使资源有限的国家优先调节这些特定污染物，并可能导致对发展中国家的婴儿免疫调节剂的识别。