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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) worldwide. However, the immunological mechanisms associated with the enhanced susceptibility among HIV-positive individuals remain largely unknown.
Here, we used a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)/TB-coinfection Mauritian cynomolgus macaque (MCM) model to examine humoral responses from the plasma of SIV-negative (
= 8) and SIV-positive (
= 7) MCM 8-week postinfection with
(
).
Antibody responses to
were impaired during SIV coinfection. Elevated inflammatory bulk IgG antibody glycosylation patterns were observed in coinfected macaques early at 8-week post-
infection, including increased agalactosylation (G0) and reduced di-galactosylation (G2), which correlated with endpoint
bacterial burden and gross pathology scores, as well as the time-to-necropsy.
These studies suggest that humoral immunity may contribute to control of TB disease and support growing literature that highlights antibody Fc glycosylation as a biomarker of TB disease progression.