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Sullivan CS, Grundhoff AT, Tevethia S, Pipas JM, Ganem D. SV40-encoded microRNAs regulate viral gene expression and reduce susceptibility to cytotoxic T cells. Nature 2005; 435:682-6. [PMID: 15931223 DOI: 10.1038/nature03576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 504] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2005] [Accepted: 04/01/2005] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (approximately 22-nucleotide) RNAs that in lower organisms serve important regulatory roles in development and gene expression, typically by forming imperfect duplexes with target messenger RNAs. miRNAs have also been described in mammalian cells and in infections with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), but the function of most of them is unknown. Although one EBV miRNA probably altered the processing of a viral mRNA, the regulatory significance of this event is uncertain, because other transcripts exist that can supply the targeted function. Here we report the identification of miRNAs encoded by simian virus 40 (SV40) and define their functional significance for viral infection. SVmiRNAs accumulate at late times in infection, are perfectly complementary to early viral mRNAs, and target those mRNAs for cleavage. This reduces the expression of viral T antigens but does not reduce the yield of infectious virus relative to that generated by a mutant lacking SVmiRNAs. However, wild-type SV40-infected cells are less sensitive than the mutant to lysis by cytotoxic T cells, and trigger less cytokine production by such cells. Thus, viral evolution has taken advantage of the miRNA pathway to generate effectors that enhance the probability of successful infection.
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- Christopher S Sullivan
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Microbiology, G. W. Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0552, USA
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Fan CF, Zeng RH, Sun CY, Mei XG, Wang YF, Liu Y. Fusion of DsbA to the N-terminus of CTL chimeric epitope, F/M2:81-95, of respiratory syncytial virus prolongs protein- and virus-specific CTL responses in Balb/c mice. Vaccine 2005; 23:2869-75. [PMID: 15780735 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2004.11.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2004] [Accepted: 11/24/2004] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In an effort to seek a means of inducing long lasting respiratory syncytial virus-specific CTL responses in mice, we constructed a new recombinant protein, DsbA-F/M2:81-95, by fusing carrier protein DsbA (disulfide bond isomerase) to the N-terminus of CTL chimeric epitope F/M2:81-95 of this virus. DsbA-F/M2:81-95 can induce effectively virus-specific CTL responses as well as protective immunity without association with enhanced disease. Furthermore, compared with F/M2:81-95 alone, it increases the longevity of CTL responses in vivo up to 2.93 folds. Our study emphasizes that appropriate stimulation of non-antigen-specific T helper cells is essential to induce long lasting CD8+ CTL, and also implies DsbA-F/M2:81-95 may be a promising candidate for RSV vaccine development since it is an efficacious and safe immunogen.
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- Chang-Fa Fan
- Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 27 Taiping Road, Beijing 100850, PR China.
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Haeryfar SMM, DiPaolo RJ, Tscharke DC, Bennink JR, Yewdell JW. Regulatory T cells suppress CD8+ T cell responses induced by direct priming and cross-priming and moderate immunodominance disparities. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 174:3344-51. [PMID: 15749866 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.6.3344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Little is known regarding the participation of CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells (Treg) in TCD8+ responses. In this study, we show that Treg depletion via treatment with anti-CD25 mAb (PC61) significantly enhances TCD8+ responses to influenza A virus, vaccinia virus, and SV40-transformed cells induced by either direct priming or cross-priming. PC61 did not enhance TCD8+ responses in CD4-deficient mice, providing the initial demonstration that PC61 acts on a subset of TCD4+, and not on other cells that express either CD25 or a fortuitously cross-reactive Ag. We further show that Treg selectively suppress responses to the most immunodominant TCD8+ determinants in the three systems examined. Therefore, Treg influence TCD8 immunodominance hierarchies by moderating disparities in responses to different determinants.
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- S M Mansour Haeryfar
- Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Casati A, Zimmermann VS, Benigni F, Bertilaccio MTS, Bellone M, Mondino A. The Immunogenicity of Dendritic Cell-Based Vaccines Is Not Hampered by Doxorubicin and Melphalan Administration. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 174:3317-25. [PMID: 15749863 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.6.3317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Immunization of cancer patients is most effective in tumor-free conditions or in the presence of minimal residual disease. In the attempt to develop new strategies able to control tumor recurrence while allowing the development of protective immunity, we have investigated the immunogenic potential of two distinct vaccine formulations when provided alone or upon single and repeated treatment with chemotherapeutics drugs. Vaccine-induced T cell responses were first investigated by tracing Ag-specific T cell responses in mice bearing detectable frequencies of Ag-specific TCR transgenic CD4 and CD8 T cells. These studies indicated that immunization with peptide-pulsed dendritic cells and soluble Ag plus adjuvant elicited a comparable expansion and differentiation of CD4 and CD8 effector cells in the peripheral lymphoid tissues when provided alone or shortly after Doxorubicin or Melphalan administration. We also analyzed the potency of the combined vaccination in transgenic adenocarcinoma mouse prostate mice, which develop spontaneous prostate cancer. Dendritic cell-based vaccination elicited potent tumor-specific cytotoxic responses in mice bearing prostate intraepithelial neoplasia both in the absence and in the presence of Doxorubicin. Together our results indicate that Doxorubicin- or Melphalan-based chemotherapy and Ag-specific vaccination can be combined for adjuvant treatments of cancer patients.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/administration & dosage
- Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/toxicity
- Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating/administration & dosage
- Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating/toxicity
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/drug effects
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/drug effects
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Cancer Vaccines/administration & dosage
- Cancer Vaccines/immunology
- Cell Differentiation/drug effects
- Cell Division/drug effects
- Dendritic Cells/immunology
- Doxorubicin/administration & dosage
- Doxorubicin/toxicity
- Humans
- In Vitro Techniques
- Lymphocyte Count
- Melphalan/administration & dosage
- Melphalan/toxicity
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Neoplasms, Experimental/drug therapy
- Neoplasms, Experimental/immunology
- Neoplasms, Experimental/therapy
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
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- Anna Casati
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy Program, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, DIBIT, Milan, Italy
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Degl'Innocenti E, Grioni M, Boni A, Camporeale A, Bertilaccio MTS, Freschi M, Monno A, Arcelloni C, Greenberg NM, Bellone M. Peripheral T cell tolerance occurs early during spontaneous prostate cancer development and can be rescued by dendritic cell immunization. Eur J Immunol 2005; 35:66-75. [PMID: 15597325 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200425531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In the tumor-prone transgenic adenocarcinoma mouse prostate (TRAMP) mouse model we followed the fate of the immune response against the SV40 large T antigen (Tag) selectively expressed in the prostate epithelium during the endogenous transformation from normal cells to tumors. Young (5-7-week-old) male TRAMP mice, despite a dim and patchy expression of Tag overlapping foci of mouse prostate intraepithelial neoplasia, displayed a strong Tag-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response after an intradermal injection of peptide-pulsed dendritic cells (DC). This response was weaker than the one found in vaccinated wild-type littermates, and was characterized by a reduced frequency and avidity of Tag-specific CTL. Early DC vaccination also subverted the profound state of peripheral tolerance typically found in TRAMP mice older than 9-10 weeks. The DC-induced CTL response indeed was still detectable in TRAMP mice of 16 weeks, and was associated with histology evidence of reduced disease progression. Our findings suggest that tumor antigens are handled as self antigens, and peripheral tolerance is associated with in situ antigen overexpression and cancer progression. Our data also support a relevant role for DC-based vaccines in controlling the induction of peripheral tolerance to tumor antigens.
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- Elena Degl'Innocenti
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy Program, Istituto Scientifico H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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Kim SK, Cornberg M, Wang XZ, Chen HD, Selin LK, Welsh RM. Private specificities of CD8 T cell responses control patterns of heterologous immunity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 201:523-33. [PMID: 15710651 PMCID: PMC2213046 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20041337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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CD8 T cell cross-reactivity between viruses can play roles in protective heterologous immunity and damaging immunopathology. This cross-reactivity is sometimes predictable, such as between lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) and Pichinde virus, where cross-reactive epitopes share six out of eight amino acids. Here, however, we demonstrate more subtle and less predictable cross-reactivity between LCMV and the unrelated vaccinia virus (VV). Epitope-specific T cell receptor usage differed between individual LCMV-infected C57BL/6 mice, even though the mice had similar epitope-specific T cell hierarchies. LCMV-immune mice challenged with VV showed variations, albeit in a distinct hierarchy, in proliferative expansions of and down-regulation of IL-7Ralpha by T cells specific to different LCMV epitopes. T cell responses to a VV-encoded epitope that is cross-reactive with LCMV fluctuated greatly in VV-infected LCMV-immune mice. Adoptive transfers of splenocytes from individual LCMV-immune donors resulted in nearly identical VV-induced responses in each of several recipients, but responses differed depending on the donor. This indicates that the specificities of T cell responses that are not shared between individuals may influence cross-reactivity with other antigens and play roles in heterologous immunity upon encounter with another pathogen. This variability in cross-reactive T cell expansion that is unique to the individual may underlie variation in the pathogenesis of infectious diseases.
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- Sung-Kwon Kim
- Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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Bartholdy C, Stryhn A, Christensen JP, Thomsen AR. Single-epitope DNA vaccination prevents exhaustion and facilitates a broad antiviral CD8+ T cell response during chronic viral infection. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:6284-93. [PMID: 15528367 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.10.6284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Induction of a monospecific antiviral CD8+ T cell response may pose a risk to the host due to the narrow T cell response induced. At the individual level, this may result in selection of CD8+ T cell escape variants, particularly during chronic viral infection. Second, prior immunization toward a single dominant epitope may suppress the response to other viral epitopes, and this may lead to increased susceptibility to reinfection with escape variants circulating in the host population. To address these issues, we induced a memory response consisting solely of monospecific, CD8+ T cells by use of DNA vaccines encoding immunodominant epitopes of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV). We analyzed the spectrum of the CD8+ T cell response and the susceptibility to infection in H-2(b) and H-2(d) mice. Priming for a monospecific, CD8+ T cell response did not render mice susceptible to viral variants. Thus, vaccinated mice were protected against chronic infection with LCMV, and no evidence indicating biologically relevant viral escape was obtained. In parallel, a broad and sustained CD8+ T cell response was generated upon infection, and in H-2(d) mice epitope spreading was observed. Even after acute LCMV infection, DNA vaccination did not significantly impair naturally induced immunity. Thus, the response to the other immunogenic epitopes was not dramatically suppressed in DNA-immunized mice undergoing normal immunizing infection, and the majority of mice were protected against rechallenge with escape variants. These findings underscore that a monospecific vaccine may induce efficient protective immunity given the right set of circumstances.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antiviral Agents/administration & dosage
- Antiviral Agents/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/virology
- Cells, Cultured
- Chronic Disease
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Disease Susceptibility/immunology
- Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/administration & dosage
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Female
- Genetic Variation/immunology
- H-2 Antigens/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigen H-2D
- Immunologic Memory
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis/immunology
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis/prevention & control
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/genetics
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Secondary Prevention
- Vaccines, DNA/administration & dosage
- Vaccines, DNA/immunology
- Viral Vaccines/administration & dosage
- Viral Vaccines/genetics
- Viral Vaccines/immunology
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- Christina Bartholdy
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, 3C Blegdamsvej, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Wang XZ, Brehm MA, Welsh RM. Preapoptotic phenotype of viral epitope-specific CD8 T cells precludes memory development and is an intrinsic property of the epitope. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:5138-47. [PMID: 15470058 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.8.5138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Virus-specific CD8 T cells after clearance of infection reduce their number in lymphoid organs by apoptotic death and by migration into peripheral tissues. During and after infection, many lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV)-specific CD8 T cells in lymphoid but not peripheral tissues are in a preapoptotic state, as detected by the early apoptosis marker annexin V. In this report, we investigated the significance of this preapoptotic state and how it may be influenced by viral epitope specificity. Stimulation with anti-CD3 or IL-2 in vitro postponed DNA fragmentation in annexin V+ cells, but adoptive transfer studies in vivo showed that this preapoptotic phenotype precluded the development of functional memory. CD8 T cells specific to LCMV epitopes NP396 and gp33 differed in their preapoptotic state, with NP396-specific T cells binding more annexin V than gp33-specific T cells. These epitope- and tissue-dependent differences were seen in primary, memory, and secondary responses and in mice receiving different displays of Ag by infection with LCMV strains of different tropisms or by infection with vaccinia virus recombinants expressing LCMV proteins. Thus, the epitope-dependent differences in apoptosis were independent of virus tropisms, duration of Ag exposure, and competition within APCs, and were an intrinsic property of the epitope. The tissue-dependent and epitope-dependent preapoptotic state correlated with reduced expression of IL-7Ralpha.
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- Xiaoting Z Wang
- Program in Immunology and Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655, USA
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Belnoue E, Guettier C, Kayibanda M, Le Rond S, Crain-Denoyelle AM, Marchiol C, Ziol M, Fradelizi D, Rénia L, Viguier M. Regression of Established Liver Tumor Induced by Monoepitopic Peptide-Based Immunotherapy. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:4882-8. [PMID: 15470029 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.8.4882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Most types of cancer are difficult to eradicate, and some, like hepatocellular carcinoma, are almost always fatal. Among various interventions to improve the survival of patients with cancer, immunotherapy seems to hold some promises. However, it requires relevant animal models for preclinical development. In this study we report a new and relevant experimental model where liver tumors grow inside a nontumoral parenchyma of adult mice. This model is based on the intrasplenic injection in syngeneic recipient mice of hepatocytes from transgenic mice expressing SV40 large T oncogene specifically in the liver. Using this model where no apparent spontaneous cellular immune response was observed, immunization using a single injection of monoepitopic SV40 T Ag short peptide was sufficient to provoke liver tumor destruction, leading rapidly to complete remission. Tumor regression was associated with the induction of a long-lasting CD8+ T cell response, observed not only in the spleen but also, more importantly, in the tumoral liver. These results show the efficacy of peptide immunotherapy in the treatment of liver cancer.
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- Elodie Belnoue
- Département d'Immunologie, Institut Cochin, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 567, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université René Descartes, Hôpital Cochin, France
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Gawlick U, Kranz DM, Schepkin VD, Roy EJ. A Conjugate of a Tumor-Targeting Ligand and a T Cell Costimulatory Antibody To Treat Brain Tumors. Bioconjug Chem 2004; 15:1137-45. [PMID: 15366970 DOI: 10.1021/bc049911e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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T cell immunotherapy is a potential strategy for the treatment of brain tumors because it offers a high degree of specificity, the ability to extravasate into solid tumors, and the potential for eliciting a long-term protective immune response. Various approaches have been developed to overcome T cell immune tolerance to cancer, including the use of cytokines and bispecific antibodies. T cell stimulation with the proinflammatory cytokine IL-12 can elicit antitumor immunity. T cell activation can be increased using bispecific antibodies against activating molecules on the surface of T cells and a tumor antigen. We studied the effects of systemic IL-12 administration in combination with a conjugate of an anti-CD28 antibody and a ligand for the folate receptor. The high affinity folate receptor is expressed on endogenously arising choroid plexus tumors of SV11 mice, which are transgenic for large T antigen under the control of the SV40 promoter. SV11 mice are immunocompetent, yet immunologically tolerant to large T antigen expressed by choroid plexus tumors. MRI analysis showed that the administration of IL-12 and anti-CD28 Fab/folate significantly slowed tumor growth. Proliferating CD8(+) T cells were found in choroid plexus tumors of treated animals. Treatment of animals with IL-12 + anti-CD28 Fab/folate prolonged survival compared to IL-12 alone. Cytokine treatment combined with tumor-targeted costimulation may be a useful adjunct treatment.
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- Ute Gawlick
- Neuroscience Program and Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Yoshimura Y, Yadav R, Christianson GJ, Ajayi WU, Roopenian DC, Joyce S. Duration of Alloantigen Presentation and Avidity of T Cell Antigen Recognition Correlate with Immunodominance of CTL Response to Minor Histocompatibility Antigens. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:6666-74. [PMID: 15153482 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.11.6666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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CD8 T lymphocytes (CTL) responsive to immunodominant minor histocompatibility (minor H) Ags are thought to play a disproportionate role in allograft rejection in MHC-identical solid and bone marrow transplant settings. Although many studies have addressed the mechanisms underlying immunodominance in models of infectious diseases, cancer immunotherapy, and allograft immunity, key issues regarding the molecular basis of immunodominance remain poorly understood. In this study, we exploit the minor H Ag system to understand the relationship of the various biochemical parameters of Ag presentation and recognition to immunodominance. We show that the duration of individual minor H Ag presentation and the avidity of T cell Ag recognition influence the magnitude and, hence, the immunodominance of the CTL response to minor H Ags. These properties of CTL Ag presentation and recognition that contribute to immunodominance have implications not only for tissue transplantation, but also for autoimmunity and tumor vaccine design.
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- Yoshitaka Yoshimura
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
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Schell TD. In vivo expansion of the residual tumor antigen-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes that survive negative selection in simian virus 40 T-antigen-transgenic mice. J Virol 2004; 78:1751-62. [PMID: 14747540 PMCID: PMC369430 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.4.1751-1762.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mice that express the viral oncoprotein simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen (T-Ag) as a transgene provide useful models for the assessment of the state of the host immune response in the face of spontaneous tumor progression. Line SV11 (H2(b)) mice develop rapidly progressing choroid plexus tumors due to expression of full-length T-Ag from the SV40 promoter. In addition, T-Ag expression in the thymus of SV11 mice results in the deletion of CD8(+) T cells specific for the three H2(b)-restricted immunodominant epitopes of T-Ag. Whether CD8(+) T cells specific for the immunorecessive H2-D(b)-restricted epitope V of T-Ag survive negative selection in SV11 mice has not been determined. Immunization of SV11 mice with rVV-ES-V, a recombinant vaccinia virus expressing epitope V as a minigene, resulted in the induction of weak, but reproducible, epitope V-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) responses. This weak lytic response corresponded with a decreased frequency of epitope V-specific CTL that could be recruited in SV11 mice. In addition, CTL lines derived from rVV-ES-V-immunized SV11 mice had reduced avidities compared to that seen with CTL derived from healthy mice. Despite this initial weak response, significant numbers of epitope V-specific CD8(+) T cells were detected in SV11 mice ex vivo following a priming-boosting approach and these cells demonstrated high avidity for epitope V. The results suggest that low numbers of tumor-reactive CD8(+) T cells with high avidity for epitope V survive negative selection in SV11 mice but can be expanded by specific boosting approaches in the tumor bearing host.
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- Todd D Schell
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA.
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Barton LF, Runnels HA, Schell TD, Cho Y, Gibbons R, Tevethia SS, Deepe GS, Monaco JJ. Immune Defects in 28-kDa Proteasome Activator γ-Deficient Mice. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:3948-54. [PMID: 15004203 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.6.3948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Protein complexes of the 28-kDa proteasome activator (PA28) family activate the proteasome and may alter proteasome cleavage specificity. Initial investigations have demonstrated a role for the IFN-gamma-inducible PA28alpha/beta complex in Ag processing. Although the noninducible and predominantly nuclear PA28gamma complex has been implicated in affecting proteasome-dependent signaling pathways, such as control of the mitotic cell cycle, there is no previous evidence demonstrating a role for this structure in Ag processing. We therefore generated PA28gamma-deficient mice and investigated their immune function. PA28gamma(-/-) mice display a slight reduction in CD8+ T cell numbers and do not effectively clear a pulmonary fungal infection. However, T cell responses in two viral infection models appear normal in both magnitude and the hierarchy of antigenic epitopes recognized. We conclude that PA28gamma(-/-) mice, like PA28alpha(-/-)/beta(-/-) mice, are deficient in the processing of only specific Ags.
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- Lance F Barton
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
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Kim SK, Welsh RM. Comprehensive Early and Lasting Loss of Memory CD8 T Cells and Functional Memory during Acute and Persistent Viral Infections. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:3139-50. [PMID: 14978120 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.5.3139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Viral infections have been shown to induce lymphopenias that lower memory CD8 T cell frequencies, and they also have been shown to cause a permanent loss of memory cells specific to previously encountered pathogens. In this study, the patterns and significance of virus-induced memory CD8 T cell depletion were examined in mice immune to heterologous (Pichinde, vesicular stomatitis, vaccinia) viruses and subsequently challenged with acute or persistent lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infections. Memory CD8 T cell loss was comprehensive and occurred in both lymphoid and peripheral tissues of the immune host. The impact of the loss of memory T cells was reflected by in vivo cytotoxicity assays, which showed decreased clearance of epitope-expressing targets. Memory CD8 T cell loss occurred very early (day 2) after infection, and was thereafter sustained, consistent more with an active deletion model than with a competition model. Cross-reactive T cells, in contrast, increased in number, but memory cells were reduced whether or not there was competition from cross-reactive T cells. Memory T cell loss was more profound during persistent infection than after acute infection. Adoptive transfer studies showed that, unlike the resolved acute infection, in which the reduced memory frequencies became stable, memory T cell loss was a continuously ongoing process during persistent infection. This study therefore links an early virus-induced lymphopenia to a subsequent long-term loss of CD8 T cell memory and offers a new mechanism for immune deficiency during persistent viral infections.
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- Sung-Kwon Kim
- Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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Schirmbeck R, Riedl P, Zurbriggen R, Akira S, Reimann J. Antigenic epitopes fused to cationic peptide bound to oligonucleotides facilitate Toll-like receptor 9-dependent, but CD4+ T cell help-independent, priming of CD8+ T cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 171:5198-207. [PMID: 14607920 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.10.5198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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A priority in current vaccine research is the development of adjuvants that support the efficient priming of long-lasting, CD4(+) T cell help-independent CD8(+) T cell immunity. Oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) with immune-stimulating sequences (ISS) containing CpG motifs facilitate the priming of MHC class I-restricted CD8(+) T cell responses to proteins or peptides. We show that the adjuvant effect of ISS(+) ODN on CD8(+) T cell priming to large, recombinant Ag is enhanced by binding them to short, cationic (arginine-rich) peptides that themselves have no adjuvant activity in CD8(+) T cell priming. Fusing antigenic epitopes to cationic (8- to 10-mer) peptides bound to immune-stimulating ISS(+) ODN or nonstimulating NSS(+) ODN (without CpG-containing sequences) generated immunogens that efficiently primed long-lasting, specific CD8(+) T cell immunity of high magnitude. Different MHC class I-binding epitopes fused to short cationic peptides of different origins showed this adjuvant activity. Quantitative ODN binding to cationic peptides strikingly reduced the toxicity of the latter, suggesting that it improves the safety profile of the adjuvant. CD8(+) T cell priming supported by this adjuvant was Toll-like receptor 9 dependent, but required no CD4(+) T cell help. ODN (with or without CpG-containing sequences) are thus potent Th1-promoting adjuvants when bound to cationic peptides covalently linked to antigenic epitopes, a mode of Ag delivery prevailing in many viral nucleocapsids.
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MESH Headings
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/genetics
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/metabolism
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CpG Islands/immunology
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
- Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/administration & dosage
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/metabolism
- Female
- H-2 Antigens/immunology
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigens/genetics
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigens/immunology
- Immunity, Cellular/genetics
- Injections, Intramuscular
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/administration & dosage
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/genetics
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/immunology
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/metabolism
- Peptides/administration & dosage
- Peptides/genetics
- Peptides/immunology
- Peptides/metabolism
- Protein Binding/genetics
- Protein Binding/immunology
- Receptors, Cell Surface/physiology
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/administration & dosage
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/immunology
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Stem Cells/immunology
- Toll-Like Receptor 9
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Affiliation(s)
- Reinhold Schirmbeck
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
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Dikopoulos N, Jomantaite I, Schirmbeck R, Reimann J. Specific, functional effector/memory CD8+ T cells are found in the liver post-vaccination. J Hepatol 2003; 39:910-7. [PMID: 14642605 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-8278(03)00469-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND The liver efficiently eliminates activated CD8+ T blasts. It is unknown if vaccine-primed CD8+ T blasts migrate to and establish functional CD8+ T cell immunity in the liver post-immunization. AIMS We tested, if functional CD8+ T cell populations can be detected in the liver post-vaccination. METHODS Murine CD8+ T cells with different epitope/restriction specificities were primed by intramuscular injection of protein- or DNA-based vaccines. The kinetics of appearance in the liver, as well as the surface phenotype and functional competence of intrahepatic, specific CD8+ T cell populations was tested. RESULTS High numbers of specific CD8+ T cells appear in the liver after vaccination that are activated (CD69+ CD44+), express effector functions (CD27lo/CD28lo phenotype, interferon gamma secretion, specific cytolytic reactivity), but show no evidence of apoptosis (annexin V-, B220lo, similar numbers/kinetics in primed, congenic lpr/lpr mice). Specific CD8+ T cells from the liver adoptively transferred into a naïve, syngeneic host successfully reconstitute specific CD8+ T cell immunity. CONCLUSIONS Specific, functionally competent CD8+ effector/memory T cell populations are established in the liver for months post-vaccination.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nektarios Dikopoulos
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ulm, Helmholtzstrasse 8/1, D-89081 Ulm, Germany.
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Stanic AK, Shashidharamurthy R, Bezbradica JS, Matsuki N, Yoshimura Y, Miyake S, Choi EY, Schell TD, Van Kaer L, Tevethia SS, Roopenian DC, Yamamura T, Joyce S. Another View of T Cell Antigen Recognition: Cooperative Engagement of Glycolipid Antigens by Va14Ja18 Natural TCR. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 171:4539-51. [PMID: 14568927 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.9.4539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Va14Ja18 natural T (iNKT) cells rapidly elicit a robust effector response to different glycolipid Ags, with distinct functional outcomes. Biochemical parameters controlling iNKT cell function are partly defined. However, the impact of iNKT cell receptor beta-chain repertoire and how alpha-galactosylceramide (alpha-GalCer) analogues induce distinct functional responses have remained elusive. Using altered glycolipid ligands, we discovered that the Vb repertoire of iNKT cells impacts recognition and Ag avidity, and that stimulation with suboptimal avidity Ag results in preferential expansion of high-affinity iNKT cells. iNKT cell proliferation and cytokine secretion, which correlate with iNKT cell receptor down-regulation, are induced within narrow biochemical thresholds. Multimers of CD1d1-alphaGalCer- and alphaGalCer analogue-loaded complexes demonstrate cooperative engagement of the Va14Ja18 iNKT cell receptor whose structure and/or organization appear distinct from conventional alphabeta TCR. Our findings demonstrate that iNKT cell functions are controlled by affinity thresholds for glycolipid Ags and reveal a novel property of their Ag receptor apparatus that may have an important role in iNKT cell activation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens/metabolism
- Antigens, CD1/metabolism
- Antigens, CD1d
- Cell Line
- Clone Cells
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
- Galactosylceramides/immunology
- Galactosylceramides/metabolism
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Kinetics
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/chemistry
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Sphingosine/immunology
- Sphingosine/metabolism
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- Aleksandar K Stanic
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Staveley-O'Carroll K, Schell TD, Jimenez M, Mylin LM, Tevethia MJ, Schoenberger SP, Tevethia SS. In vivo ligation of CD40 enhances priming against the endogenous tumor antigen and promotes CD8+ T cell effector function in SV40 T antigen transgenic mice. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 171:697-707. [PMID: 12847236 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.2.697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The ability to initiate and sustain CD8(+) T cell responses to tumors in vivo is hindered by the development of peripheral T cell tolerance against tumor-associated Ags. Approaches that counter the onset of T cell tolerance may preserve a pool of potentially tumor-reactive CD8(+) T cells. Administration of agonist Ab to the CD40 molecule, expressed on APCs, can enhance immunization approaches targeting T lymphocytes in an otherwise tolerance-prone environment. In this report, the effects of anti-CD40 administration on priming of naive CD8(+) T cells against an endogenous tumor Ag were investigated. Line 501 mice express the SV40 large T Ag oncoprotein as a transgene from the alpha-amylase promoter, resulting in the development of peripheral CD8(+) T cell tolerance to the H-2-D(b)-restricted immunodominant epitope I of T Ag by 6 mo of age, before the appearance of osteosarcomas. We demonstrate that naive epitope I-specific TCR transgenic (TCR-I) T cells undergo peripheral tolerance following adoptive transfer into 6-mo-old 501 mice. In contrast, administration of agonistic anti-CD40 Ab led to increased expansion of TCR-I T cells in 501 mice, the acquisition of effector function by TCR-I T cells and the establishment of T cell memory. Importantly, this enhanced priming effect of anti-CD40 administration did not require immunization and was effective even if administered after naive TCR-I T cells had encountered the endogenous T Ag. Thus, anti-CD40 administration can block the onset of peripheral tolerance and enhance the recruitment of functionally competent effector T cells toward an endogenous tumor Ag.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral, Tumor/genetics
- Antigens, Viral, Tumor/immunology
- CD40 Antigens/immunology
- CD40 Antigens/metabolism
- CD40 Ligand/metabolism
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Clone Cells
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Immune Sera/administration & dosage
- Lymph Nodes/cytology
- Lymph Nodes/immunology
- Lymph Nodes/metabolism
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Neck
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Simian virus 40/genetics
- Simian virus 40/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- Kevin Staveley-O'Carroll
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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Yadav R, Yoshimura Y, Boesteanu A, Christianson GJ, Ajayi WU, Shashidharamurthy R, Stanic AK, Roopenian DC, Joyce S. The H4b minor histocompatibility antigen is caused by a combination of genetically determined and posttranslational modifications. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:5133-42. [PMID: 12734360 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.10.5133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Minor histocompatibility (H) Ag disparities result in graft-vs-host disease and chronic solid allograft rejection in MHC-identical donor-recipient combinations. Minor H Ags are self protein-derived peptides presented by MHC class I molecules. Most arise as a consequence of allelic variation in the bound peptide (p) that results in TCR recognizing the p/MHC as foreign. We used a combinational peptide screening approach to identify the immune dominant H2K(b)-restricted epitope defining the mouse H4(b) minor H Ag. H4(b) is a consequence of a P3 threonine to isoleucine change in the MHC-bound peptide derived from epithelial membrane protein-3. This allelic variation also leads to phosphorylation of the H4(b) but not the H4(a) epitope. Further, ex vivo CD8(+) T lymphocytes bind phosphorylated Ag tetramers with high efficiency. Although we document the above process in the minor H Ag system, posttranslational modifications made possible by subtle amino acid changes could also contribute to immunogenicity and immune dominance in tumor immunotherapeutic settings.
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- Rajwardhan Yadav
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Wang XZ, Stepp SE, Brehm MA, Chen HD, Selin LK, Welsh RM. Virus-specific CD8 T cells in peripheral tissues are more resistant to apoptosis than those in lymphoid organs. Immunity 2003; 18:631-42. [PMID: 12753740 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(03)00116-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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CD8 T cells persist at high frequencies in peripheral organs after resolution of an immune response, and their presence in the periphery is important for resistance to secondary challenge. We show here that LCMV-specific T cells in peripheral tissue (peritoneal cavity, lung, fat pads) reacted much less with the apoptotic marker Annexin-V than those in spleen and lymph nodes. This was not due to a TCR-based selection. In comparison to lymphoid tissue, T cells in the periphery expressed lower levels of Fas and Fas ligand and were resistant to activation-induced cell death in vitro. This may contribute to the survival of nondividing peripheral memory T cells, enabling them to efficiently function without being driven into apoptosis.
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- Xiaoting Z Wang
- Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655, USA
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Brehm MA, Markees TG, Daniels KA, Greiner DL, Rossini AA, Welsh RM. Direct visualization of cross-reactive effector and memory allo-specific CD8 T cells generated in response to viral infections. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:4077-86. [PMID: 12682237 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.8.4077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CD8 T cell cross-reactivity between heterologous viruses has been shown to provide protective immunity, induce immunopathology, influence the immunodominance of epitope-specific T cell responses, and shape the overall memory population. Virus infections also induce cross-reactive allo-specific CTL responses. In this study, we quantified the allo-specific CD8 T cells elicited by infection of C57BL/6 (B6) mice with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV). Cross-reactive LCMV-specific CD8 T cells were directly visualized using LCMV peptide-charged MHC tetramers to costain T cells that were stimulated to produce intracellular IFN-gamma in response to allogeneic target cells. The cross-reactivity between T cells specific for LCMV and allogeneic Ags was broad-based, in that it involved multiple LCMV-derived peptides, but there were distinctive patterns of reactivity against allogeneic cells with different haplotypes. Experiments indicated that this cross-reactivity was not due to the expression of two TCR per cell, and that the patterns of allo-reactivity changed during sequential infection with heterologous viruses. The allo-specific CD8 T cells generated by LCMV infection were maintained at relatively high frequencies in the memory pool, indicating that memory allo-specific CD8 T cell populations can arise as a consequence of viral infections. Mice previously infected with LCMV and harboring allo-specific memory T cells were refractory to the induction of tolerance to allogeneic skin grafts.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/virology
- Cell Line
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic/methods
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Immune Tolerance
- Immunity, Innate
- Immunodominant Epitopes/immunology
- Immunologic Memory
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Isoantigens/immunology
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis/immunology
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis/pathology
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Mice, Knockout
- Pichinde virus/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/physiology
- Skin Transplantation/immunology
- Skin Transplantation/pathology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/virology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael A Brehm
- Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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Rodriguez F, Harkins S, Slifka MK, Whitton JL. Immunodominance in virus-induced CD8(+) T-cell responses is dramatically modified by DNA immunization and is regulated by gamma interferon. J Virol 2002; 76:4251-9. [PMID: 11932390 PMCID: PMC155093 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.9.4251-4259.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The phenomenon whereby the host immune system responds to only a few of the many possible epitopes in a foreign protein is termed immunodominance. Immunodominance occurs not only during microbial infection but also following vaccination, and clarification of the underlying mechanism may permit the rational design of vaccines which can circumvent immunodominance, thereby inducing responses to all epitopes, dominant and subdominant. Here, we show that immunodominance affects DNA vaccines and that the effects can be avoided by the simple expedient of epitope separation. DNA vaccines encoding isolated dominant and subdominant epitopes induce equivalent responses, confirming a previous demonstration that coexpression of dominant and subdominant epitopes on the same antigen-presenting cell (APC) is central to immunodominance. We conclude that multiepitope DNA vaccines should comprise a cocktail of plasmids, each with its own epitope, to allow maximal epitope dispersal among APCs. In addition, we demonstrate that subdominant responses are actively suppressed by dominant CD8(+) T-cell responses and that gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) is required for this suppression. Furthermore, priming of CD8(+) T cells to a single dominant epitope results in strong suppression of responses to other normally dominant epitopes in immunocompetent mice, in effect rendering these epitopes subdominant; however, responses to these epitopes are increased 6- to 20-fold in mice lacking IFN-gamma. We suggest that, in agreement with our previous observations, IFN-gamma secretion by CD8(+) T cells is highly localized, and we propose that its immunosuppressive effect is focused on the APC with which the dominant CD8(+) T cell is in contact.
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- Fernando Rodriguez
- Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Effective immunity to infectious agents requires the initial recognition of antigen by specific receptors, which leads to the activation of immunocytes and the elicitation of an immune response. Because T cell antigen recognition and directed responses are complex processes, they are initiated and quelled in a highly regulated manner. Our laboratory has focused on defining the molecular processes that control T cell antigen presentation and recognition. Research in this area is focused on determining the chemical nature of antigens displayed by Major histocompatibility, complex (MHC)-encoded class I molecules and the nonclassical class I-like protein CD1d. Quantitative aspects of antigen presentation and recognition are also being studied to determine how these factors control the initiation of a T cell response. Our studies provide insights into the biochemical basis of T cell antigen recognition and response as well as the molecular processes underlying the initiation and regulation of immune responses by CD1d-restricted natural T lymphocytes.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation
- Antigens, CD1/chemistry
- Antigens, CD1/immunology
- Antigens, CD1/metabolism
- Antigens, CD1d
- Antiporters/deficiency
- Antiporters/physiology
- Cytokines/physiology
- Endoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism
- Golgi Apparatus/metabolism
- H-2 Antigens/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/chemistry
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Humans
- Immune System/cytology
- Immune System/immunology
- Immunoglobulins/deficiency
- Immunoglobulins/physiology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Ligands
- Lipids/immunology
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Membrane Transport Proteins
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Models, Immunological
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Transport
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- Thymus Gland/cytology
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Affiliation(s)
- S Joyce
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Kumaraguru U, Gierynska M, Norman S, Bruce BD, Rouse BT. Immunization with chaperone-peptide complex induces low-avidity cytotoxic T lymphocytes providing transient protection against herpes simplex virus infection. J Virol 2002; 76:136-41. [PMID: 11739679 PMCID: PMC135705 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.1.136-141.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Heat shock proteins loaded with viral peptides were shown to induce a CD8+ T cell response and confer protective immunity against challenge with herpes simplex virus (HSV). The delivery system consisted of recombinant human hsp70 coupled to the peptide SSIEFARL, which is the immunodominant peptide epitope, recognized by HSV specific T cells in C57BL/6 mice. Immunization resulted in CD8+ T-cell responses, measured by peptide-specific tetramers and peptide-induced intracellular gamma interferon expression and cytotoxicity, similar to responses resulting from immunization with a recombinant vaccinia virus that expressed SSIEFARL as a minigene (VvgB) and UV-inactivated HSV. However, the durability of the hsp70-SSIEFARL response was less than that resulting from VvgB and HSV immunization and in addition the CD8+ T-cell responses in the memory phase were functionally less effective. Mice challenged soon after immunization showed excellent immunity, but by 90 days postimmunization this had waned to be significantly less than the level of immunity in both VvgB- and HSV-immunized mice.
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- Udayasankar Kumaraguru
- Department of Microbiology and Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0845, USA
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Schell TD, Tevethia SS. Control of advanced choroid plexus tumors in SV40 T antigen transgenic mice following priming of donor CD8(+) T lymphocytes by the endogenous tumor antigen. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 167:6947-56. [PMID: 11739514 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.12.6947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Mouse models in which tumors arise spontaneously due to the transgenic expression of an oncoprotein provide an opportunity to test approaches that target the immune-mediated control of tumor progression. In this report we investigated the role of SV40 Tag-specific CD8(+) T cells in the control of advanced choroid plexus tumor progression using large tumor Ag (Tag) transgenic mice. Since mice of the SV11 line are tolerant to the immunodominant SV40 Tag-derived CTL epitopes, mice with advanced stage tumors were reconstituted with naive C57BL/6 spleen cells following a low dose of gamma-irradiation. This led to the priming of CTLs specific for the H2-K(b)-restricted epitope IV by the endogenous Tag and a significant increase in the life span of Tag transgenic mice. Epitope IV-specific CD8(+) T cells accumulated and persisted in the brains and tumors of SV11 mice, as determined by analysis with epitope-specific MHC class I tetramers. Brain-infiltrating epitope IV-specific T cells were capable of producing IFN-gamma as well as lysing syngeneic Tag-transformed cells in vitro. In addition, the adoptive transfer of spleen cells from Tag-immune C57BL/6 mice resulted in a dramatic increase in the control of tumor progression in SV11 mice and was associated with the accumulation of CD8(+) T cells specific for multiple Tag epitopes in the brain. These results indicate that the control of advanced stage spontaneous choroid plexus tumors is associated with the induction of a strong and persistent CD8(+) T cell response to Tag.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/genetics
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/immunology
- Brain/immunology
- Brain/pathology
- Cell Line
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cells, Cultured
- Choroid Plexus Neoplasms/immunology
- Choroid Plexus Neoplasms/pathology
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
- Disease Progression
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Spleen/immunology
- Survival Rate
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/transplantation
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Affiliation(s)
- T D Schell
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
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Chen HD, Fraire AE, Joris I, Brehm MA, Welsh RM, Selin LK. Memory CD8+ T cells in heterologous antiviral immunity and immunopathology in the lung. Nat Immunol 2001; 2:1067-76. [PMID: 11668342 DOI: 10.1038/ni727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A potent role for memory CD8+ T cells in heterologous immunity was shown with a respiratory mucosal model of viral infection. Memory CD8+ T cells generated after lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infection were functionally activated in vivo to produce interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) during acute infection with vaccinia virus (VV). Some of these antigen-specific memory cells selectively expanded in number, which resulted in modulation of the original LCMV-specific T cell repertoire. In addition, there was an organ-selective compartmental redistribution of these LCMV-specific T cells during VV infection. The presence of these LCMV-specific memory T cells correlated with enhanced VV clearance, decreased mortality and marked changes in lung immunopathology. Thus, the participation of pre-existing memory T cells specific to unrelated agents can alter the dynamics of mucosal immunity and disease course in response to a pathogen.
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- H D Chen
- Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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Eo SK, Kumaraguru U, Rouse BT. Plasmid DNA encoding CCR7 ligands compensate for dysfunctional CD8+ T cell responses by effects on dendritic cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 167:3592-9. [PMID: 11564771 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.7.3592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Lymphotoxin alpha-deficient (LTalpha-/-) mice, which lack lymph nodes and possess a disorganized spleen, develop dysfunctional CD8+ T cells upon HSV infection and readily succumb to herpes encephalitis. Such mice do develop apparently normal peptide-specific CD8+ T cell responses, as measured by MHC class I tetramer staining, but the majority of cells fail to become cytotoxic or express peptide-induced IFN-gamma production. In the present study, we demonstrate that functional defects of CD8+ T cells in LTalpha-/- mice can be largely rectified by the administration of plasmid DNA encoding CCR7 ligands before HSV infection. Treated mutant mice developed increased peptide-specific cytotoxic responses, enhanced numbers of CD8+ T cells capable of producing IFN-gamma, as well as improved resistance to HSV challenge. The corrective effect of chemokine treatment appeared to result from improved dendritic cell-mediated Ag presentation. Thus, a major consequence of the treatment was an increase in splenic dendritic cell number in CCR7 ligand-treated LTalpha-/- mice with such splenocyte populations showing improved APC activity in vitro. Our results document that functional defects of CD8+ T cells can be corrected, and indicate the value of plasmid vector encoding appropriate chemokines to achieve such immunotherapy.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Chemokine CCL19
- Chemokine CCL21
- Chemokines, CC/genetics
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
- Dendritic Cells/immunology
- Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex/immunology
- Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex/pathology
- Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex/therapy
- Female
- Genetic Therapy
- Genetic Vectors
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Lymphotoxin-alpha/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Plasmids
- Receptors, CCR7
- Receptors, Chemokine/agonists
- Spleen/immunology
- Spleen/pathology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- S K Eo
- Laboratory of Viral Immunology, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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Serreze DV, Johnson EA, Chapman HD, Graser RT, Marron MP, DiLorenzo TP, Silveira P, Yoshimura Y, Nathenson SG, Joyce S. Autoreactive diabetogenic T-cells in NOD mice can efficiently expand from a greatly reduced precursor pool. Diabetes 2001; 50:1992-2000. [PMID: 11522664 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.50.9.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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A broad repertoire of pancreatic beta-cell autoreactive T-cells normally contributes to the development of type 1 diabetes in NOD mice. However, it has been unknown if a large reduction in the precursor pool from which autoreactive T-cells are drawn would inhibit the development of type 1 diabetes. To address this issue, we reduced the precursor frequency of autoreactive T-cells in NOD mice through allelic exclusion induced by transgenic expression of an H2-Db class I-restricted T-cell receptor (TCR) specific for a pathologically irrelevant lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) peptide. TCR allelic exclusion greatly reduced the pool of T-cells from which diabetogenic effectors could be derived in these NODxLCMV TCR Tg mice. Surprisingly, this did not impair their type 1 diabetes susceptibility. Furthermore, a diabetogenic CD8 T-cell population that is prevalent in standard NOD mice was present at essentially equivalent levels in pancreatic islets of NODxLCMV TCR Tg mice. Other data indicated that the antigenic specificity of these CD8 T-cells is primarily the function of a shared TCR-alpha chain. Although the percentage of TCR transgenic T-cells decreased in NOD versus B6,D2 control mice, much higher total numbers of both the TCR transgenic and the nontransgenic T-cells accumulated in the NOD strain. This transgenic T-cell accumulation in the absence of the cognate peptide indicated that the NOD genetic background preferentially promotes a highly efficient antigen-independent T-cell expansion. This might allow diabetogenic T-cells in NOD mice to undergo an efficient expansion before encountering antigen, which would represent an important and previously unconsidered aspect of pathogenesis.
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- D V Serreze
- The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA.
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Velders MP, Macedo MF, Provenzano M, Elmishad AG, Holzhütter HG, Carbone M, Kast WM. Human T cell responses to endogenously presented HLA-A*0201 restricted peptides of Simian virus 40 large T antigen. J Cell Biochem 2001; 82:155-62. [PMID: 11400172 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.1148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Presence of the simian virus 40 (SV40) has recently been demonstrated in a relatively high percentage of human mesotheliomas and it is associated with the development of these malignancies in pleural cavities. Therefore, we have initiated a study to identify candidate peptides presented by the human HLA-A*0201 molecule for vaccination approaches against SV40 and monitoring of SV40 directed human immune responses. Initial screening of SV40 large T (Tag) domains required for transformation of cells for HLA-A*0201 binding motifs revealed ten possible binding peptides. Screening of these candidate peptides showed that seven of the ten peptides could bind and stabilize HLA-A*0201 molecules. In an in vitro immunization assay the two peptides with the highest binding affinity for HLA-A*0201, Tag aa 396-405 and aa 577-585, were tested for their ability to induce peptide specific cytotoxic T cells in two healthy donors. One donor developed cytotoxic T cells against Tag aa 396-405 and in T cell cultures of both donors Tag aa 577-585 specific T cells were initiated. The T cells against Tag aa 577-585 not only recognized and killed peptide pulsed cells, but, most importantly, SV40 transformed human mesothelial cells. This is the first demonstration of the induction of SV40 specific human cytotoxic T lymphocytes that recognize endogenously processed peptides from SV40. This peptide identification study opens the possibility to investigate immune responses against SV40 in mesothelioma patients and in individuals exposed to SV40.
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Affiliation(s)
- M P Velders
- Cancer Immunology Program, Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois 60153, USA
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Choi EY, Yoshimura Y, Christianson GJ, Sproule TJ, Malarkannan S, Shastri N, Joyce S, Roopenian DC. Quantitative analysis of the immune response to mouse non-MHC transplantation antigens in vivo: the H60 histocompatibility antigen dominates over all others. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:4370-9. [PMID: 11254691 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.7.4370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Minor histocompatibility Ags (minor H Ags) are substantial impediments to MHC-matched solid tissue and bone marrow transplantation. From an antigenic standpoint, transplantation between MHC-matched individuals has the potential to be remarkably complex. To determine the extent to which the immune response is simplified by the phenomenon of immunodominance, we used peptide/MHC tetramers based on recently discovered minor H Ags (H60, H13, and HY) and monitored in vivo CD8 T cell responses of female C57BL/6 mice primed with MHC-matched, but background-disparate, male BALB.B cells. CD8 T cells against H60 overwhelmed responses to the H13 and HY throughout primary and secondary challenge. H60 immunodominance was an inherent quality, overcoming a lower memory precursor frequency compared with that of H13 and evoking a T cell response with diverse TCRV beta usage. IFN-gamma staining examining congenically defined minor H Ags extended H60 dominance over additional minor H Ags, H28, H4, and H7. These four minor H Ags accounted for up to 85% of the CD8 T cell response, but H60 stood out as the major contributor. These findings show that immunodominance applies to antigenically complex transplantation settings in vivo and that the responses to the H60 minor H Ag dominates in this model. We suggest that immunodominant minor H Ags are those that result from the absence of a self analog.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Clone Cells
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic/methods
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/administration & dosage
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Female
- Flow Cytometry
- Immunization, Passive
- Immunodominant Epitopes/administration & dosage
- Immunodominant Epitopes/immunology
- Longitudinal Studies
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Congenic
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Minor Histocompatibility Antigens/administration & dosage
- Minor Histocompatibility Antigens/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Skin Transplantation/immunology
- Species Specificity
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- Spleen/transplantation
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- E Y Choi
- The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA
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Kumaraguru U, Davis IA, Deshpande S, Tevethia SS, Rouse BT. Lymphotoxin alpha-/- mice develop functionally impaired CD8+ T cell responses and fail to contain virus infection of the central nervous system. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:1066-74. [PMID: 11145686 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.2.1066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Recent observations have indicated that viral persistence and tumor spreading could occur because of effector function-defective CD8(+) T cells. Although chronic exposure to Ag, lack of CD4 help, and epitope dominance are suggested to interfere with CTL differentiation, mechanisms underlying the defective effector function remain obscure. We demonstrate in this report that lymphotoxin alpha-deficient mice develop CD8(+) T cells at normal frequencies when infected with HSV or immunized with OVA Ag but show impaired cytotoxic and cytokine-mediated effector functions resulting in enhanced susceptibility to HSV-induced encephalitis. Although these cells display near normal levels of perforin and Fas ligand, they remain largely at a naive state as judged by high expression of CD62 ligand and failure to up-regulate activation or memory markers. In particular, these CD8(+) T cells revealed inadequate expression of the IL-12 receptor, thus establishing a link between CTL differentiation and LTalpha possibly through regulation of IL-12 receptor. Viruses and tumors could evade immunity by targeting the same pathway.
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- U Kumaraguru
- Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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