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. 2018 Nov 27;15(1):75.
doi: 10.1186/s12977-018-0456-8.

MBL2 gene polymorphisms in HHV-8 infection in people living with HIV/AIDS

Viviane Martha Santos de Morais  1 , Elker Lene Santos de Lima  2 , Georgea Gertrudes de Oliveira Mendes Cahú  1 , Thaisa Regina Rocha Lopes  1 , Juliana Prado Gonçales  1 , Maria Tereza Cartaxo Muniz  2 , Maria Rosângela Cunha Duarte Coêlho  3   4
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MBL2 gene polymorphisms in HHV-8 infection in people living with HIV/AIDS

Viviane Martha Santos de Morais et al. Retrovirology. .

Abstract

Background: Host genetic factors such as MBL2 gene polymorphisms cause defects in the polymerization of MBL protein and result in a functional deficiency and/or in low serum levels that can influence susceptibility to various viral infections. The aim of this study was to estimate the frequency of alleles, genotypes and haplotypes related to -550, -221 and exon 1 polymorphisms of the MBL2 gene and investigate their association with HHV-8 in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), as well as the impacts on CD4 cell count and HIV viral load in HIV/HHV-8 coinfected and HIV monoinfected patients.

Results: A cross sectional study in PLWHA, with and without HHV-8 infection, exploring associations between different factors, was performed in the outpatient infectious and parasitic diseases clinic at a referral hospital. Genomic DNA extractions from leukocytes were performed using a commercial Wizard® Genomic DNA Purification kit (Promega, Madison, WI). The promoter region (-550 and -221) was genotyped with the TaqMan system (Applied TaqMan Biosystems® genotyping Assays), and the structural region (exon1) was genotyped with Express Sybr Greener Supermix kit (Invitrogen, USA). In total, 124 HIV/HHV-8 coinfected and 213 HIV monoinfected patients were analysed. Median TCD4 counts were significantly lower in HIV/HHV-8 coinfected patients, whereas the mean of the first and last viral load of HIV did not present significant difference. There was no difference in frequency between the LL, YY and AA genotypes between the HIV/HHV-8 coinfected or HIV monoinfected patients. However, in a multivariate analysis, coinfected patients with the intermediate expression haplotype of the MBL2 gene had an odds ratio of 3.1-fold (CI = 1.2-7.6) of their last CD4 cell count being below 350 cells/mm3. Among the coinfected individuals, four developed KS and presented the intermediate expression MBL haplotype, with three being HYA/LXA and one being LYA/LYO.

Conclusions: Host genetic factors, such as -550, -221 and exon 1 polymorphisms, can be related to the may modify coinfections and/or to the development clinical manifestations caused by HHV-8, especially in HIV/HHV-8 coinfected patients who present the intermediate expression haplotypes of MBL.

Keywords: HIV/HHV-8 coinfection; Human herpesvirus 8; MBL2 gene; Mannose binding lectin.

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