Distinct features of a peripheral T-helper subset that drives B cell response in dengue virus infection

Abstract Dengue virus-induced humoral immunity can enhance the risk of severe disease, but the factors influencing this response are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the contribution of CD4+ T-cells in driving B-cell response in human dengue-infection. We identified a dominant peripheral PD1+ T-cell subset that aberrantly accumulated in severe patients and can induce B-cell differentiation via utilizing IL21 help-axis. Single-cell analyses uncovered the heterogeneity in peripheral PD1+ cells revealing the co-existence of subsets with ‘helper’ (IL21+) or ‘cytotoxic’ characteristics. The IL21+ subset displayed a distinct clonotypic and transcriptomic signature than Tfh cells and persist as memory in human lymph-nodes. Notably, we show the existence of extrafollicular B-cell responses in dengue that seems to controlled by IL21+-subset. Our study establishes peripheral IL21+-subset as a potential determinant of humoral response to DENV. These findings provide important insights into the T-cell-dependent regulation of humoral responses in dengue and inform the design of therapeutics and effective vaccines. One Sentence Summary: Peripheral IL21+ T helper subset is a major T-cell determinant of humoral immunity development to dengue virus in human infection..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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ResearchSquare.com - (2024) vom: 02. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gupta, Nimesh [VerfasserIn]
Ansari, Asgar [VerfasserIn]
Sachan, Shilpa [VerfasserIn]
Ahuja, Jatin [VerfasserIn]
Venkadesan, Sureshkumar [VerfasserIn]
Nikam, Bhushan [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Vinod [VerfasserIn]
Jain, Shweta [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Bhanu [VerfasserIn]
Coshic, Poonam [VerfasserIn]
Sikka, Kapil [VerfasserIn]
Wig, Naveet [VerfasserIn]
Sette, Alessandro [VerfasserIn]
Weiskopf, Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Mohantay, Debasisa [VerfasserIn]
Soneja, Manish [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.21203/rs.3.rs-3886693/v1

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XRA042368456