Increasing inflationary T‐cell responses following transient depletion of MCMV‐specific memory T cells

Murine CMV (MCMV) infection induces effector CD8 + T cells that continue to increase in frequency after acute infection (“inflation”) and are stably maintained at a high frequency, with up to 20% of the CD8 + T‐cell compartment being specific for one epitope, although the flexibility and turnover of these populations is not fully defined. Here we report that effector/memory CD8 + T cells induced by MCMV can be paradoxically boosted following transient depletion of epitope specific CD8 + T cells. Treatment of MCMV‐infected mice with MHC‐Class I‐saporin tetramers led to partial (80–90%) depletion of epitope‐specific CD8 + T cells—rapidly followed by a rebound, leading to expansion and maintenance of up to 40% of total CD8 + T cells, with minimal changes in response to a control epitope (M45). These data indicate the tight balance between host and virus during persistent infection and the functional flexibility of the “inflated” CD8 + T cell responses during persistent infection..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:45

Enthalten in:

European journal of immunology - 45(2015), 1, Seite 113-118

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sims, Stuart [VerfasserIn]
Klenerman, Paul [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes - drug effects
CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes - immunology
CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes - pathology
CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes - virology
Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte - chemistry
Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte - immunology
Herpesviridae Infections - immunology
Herpesviridae Infections - pathology
Herpesviridae Infections - virology
Histocompatibility Antigens Class I - administration & dosage
Histocompatibility Antigens Class I - chemistry
Histocompatibility Antigens Class I - immunology
Immunity to Infection
Immunodominant Epitopes - chemistry
Infections
Inflationary T‐cell response
Inflationary T-cell response
Lymphocytes
MCMV
Memory T cells
Muromegalovirus - immunology
Saponins - chemistry

doi:

10.1002/eji.201445016

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1962968022