HIV and substances of abuse influence exosomes and endothelial cell function

HIV 和滥用物质影响外泌体和内皮细胞功能

• 批准号: 9304176
• 负责人: Dirk P Dittmer
• 金额: $ 37.05万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9304176
• 关键词: AIDS/HIV problem; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Acute; Address; Affect; Animal Model; Animals; Behavioral; Behavioral Sciences; Biogenesis; Biological; Biological Assay; Biological Markers; Biology; Blood; Blood - brain barrier anatomy; Blood Circulation; Blood Vessels; Brain; Cancer Patient; Cannabinoids; Cell Line; Cell physiology; Cells; Cellular biology; Clinical; Clinical Sciences; Cocaine; Cocaine Abuse; Data; Development; Disease; Disease Progression; Distant; Drug usage; Endothelial Cells; Exposure to; Extravasation; Functional disorder; HIV; HIV Infections; HIV risk; Human; Inflammatory; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Leukocytes; Liposomes; Liquid substance; Lymphatic; Lymphatic Endothelial Cells; Malignant Neoplasms; Mediator of activation protein; Methods; MicroRNAs; Neurologic; Neurologic Symptoms; Neuropathogenesis; Organ; Pathogenesis; Patients; Permeability; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pharmacology; Phenotype; Plasma; Process; Production; Proteins; Research; Research Personnel; Residual Tumors; Residual state; Risk; Role; Signal Transduction; Site; Source; Structure; Substance abuse problem; Substance of Abuse; System; Testing; Tight Junctions; Vesicle; Viral Pathogenesis; Viral Proteins; Work; biobank; cell behavior; cell growth; cell type; cofactor; cytokine; drug of abuse; exosome; experience; extracellular vesicles; humanized mouse; in vivo; in vivo Model; inflammatory milieu; innovation; insight; intercellular communication; microvesicles; mouse model; nervous system disorder; novel; novel marker; pathogen; public health relevance; response; therapeutic target; tool; uptake

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): HIV infection results in CNS complications, with nearly 75% of patients with advanced HIV disease showing subclinical to clinical neurological manifestations. Additional sequelae have patients on long-term successful cART therapy who suffer from residual and end organ diseases of HIV infection. Endothelial cell dysfunction is central to HIV neuropathogenesis. A compromised blood brain barrier results in increased leukocyte transmigration, HIV infection, and the establishment of a highly inflammatory environment, which further aggravates HIV-associated neurological disease. Microvesicles are secreted from nearly every cell type. Many types exist, which we shall refer to collectively as exosomes. These circulate in the bloodstream of HIV patients. They influence intercellular communication at both local and distant sites from their cellular source. Vascular, lymphatic, and barrier endothelial cells, perhaps more than any other cell type, are constantly exposed to circulating exosomes. HIV infection can affect the composition of exosomes and utilizes these vesicles to facilitate viral pathogenesis and spread. Exosomes from infected cells can contain viral proteins, host microRNAs and proteins that trigger responses in endothelial cells, all of which can promote HIV pathogenesis. We showed this for exosomes circulating in HIV associated cancer patients and animal models (Chugh et al. PLoS Pathog. 2013;9(7):e1003484). Drugs of abuse including cocaine and cannibinoids are associated with increased HIV risk and these substances can be detrimental to HIV progression and contribute to HIV-associated neurological complications. Several studies have demonstrated that these drugs independently trigger distinct changes in endothelial cell function. However, the influence of drugs of abuse on exosome production, composition and function, especially in the context of HIV infection, represents a significant gap in our knowledge. Therefore, there is a critical need to understand the role of exosomes in HIV pathogenesis and factors that may influence HIV exosome-induced intercellular communication such as drug use. This may also lead to identification of potential therapeutic targets to block specific exosomal cargo and/or downstream effects in endothelial cells that may promote disease progression. This R01 application seeks to address how exosomes from HIV-infected cells affect blood brain barrier permeability and endothelial cell dysfunction and how drugs of abuse may influence exosomal cargo and function.