Human KIR+CD8+ T cells target pathogenic T cells in Celiac disease and are active in autoimmune diseases and COVID-19

Abstract Previous reports show that Ly49+CD8+ T cells can suppress autoimmunity in mouse models of autoimmune diseases. Here we find a markedly increased frequency of CD8+ T cells expressing inhibitory Killer cell Immunoglobulin like Receptors (KIR), the human equivalent of the Ly49 family, in the blood and inflamed tissues of various autoimmune diseases. Moreover, KIR+CD8+ T cells can efficiently eliminate pathogenic gliadin-specific CD4+ T cells from Celiac disease (CeD) patients’ leukocytes in vitro. Furthermore, we observe elevated levels of KIR+CD8+ T cells, but not CD4+ regulatory T cells, in COVID-19 and influenza-infected patients, and this correlates with disease severity and vasculitis in COVID-19. Expanded KIR+CD8+ T cells from these different diseases display shared phenotypes and similar T cell receptor sequences. These results characterize a regulatory CD8+ T cell subset in humans, broadly active in both autoimmune and infectious diseases, which we hypothesize functions to control self-reactive or otherwise pathogenic T cells.One-Sentence Summary Here we identified KIR+CD8+ T cells as a regulatory CD8+ T cell subset in humans that suppresses self-reactive or otherwise pathogenic CD4+ T cells..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

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2021

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bioRxiv.org - (2021) vom: 30. Dez. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

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Englisch

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Li, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Zaslavsky, Maxim [VerfasserIn]
Su, Yapeng [VerfasserIn]
Sikora, Michael J. [VerfasserIn]
van Unen, Vincent [VerfasserIn]
Christophersen, Asbjørn [VerfasserIn]
Chiou, Shin-Heng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jiefu [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Xuhuai [VerfasserIn]
Wilhelmy, Julie [VerfasserIn]
McSween, Alana M. [VerfasserIn]
Palanski, Brad A. [VerfasserIn]
Aditya Mallajosyula, Venkata Vamsee [VerfasserIn]
Dhondalay, Gopal Krishna R. [VerfasserIn]
Bhamidipati, Kartik [VerfasserIn]
Pai, Joy [VerfasserIn]
Kipp, Lucas B. [VerfasserIn]
Dunn, Jeffrey E. [VerfasserIn]
Hauser, Stephen L. [VerfasserIn]
Oksenberg, Jorge R. [VerfasserIn]
Satpathy, Ansuman T. [VerfasserIn]
Robinson, William H. [VerfasserIn]
Steinmetz, Lars M. [VerfasserIn]
Khosla, Chaitan [VerfasserIn]
Utz, Paul J. [VerfasserIn]
Sollid, Ludvig M. [VerfasserIn]
Heath, James R. [VerfasserIn]
Fernandez-Becker, Nielsen Q. [VerfasserIn]
Nadeau, Kari C. [VerfasserIn]
Saligrama, Naresha [VerfasserIn]
Davis, Mark M. [VerfasserIn]

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10.1101/2021.12.23.473930

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XBI033297800