Competition between T cells maintains clonal dominance during memory inflation induced by MCMV.
Eur J Immunol
; 43(5): 1252-63, 2013 May.
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ABSTRACT
Both human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) establish persistent infections that induce the accumulation of virus-specific T cells over time in a process called memory inflation. It has been proposed that T cells expressing T-cell receptors (TCRs) with high affinity for HCMV-derived peptides are preferentially selected after acute HCMV infection. To test this in the murine model, small numbers of OT-I transgenic T cells, which express a TCR with high affinity for the SIINFEKL peptide, were transferred into congenic mice and recipients were challenged with recombinant MCMV expressing SIINFEKL. OT-I T cells were selectively enriched during the first 3 weeks of infection. Similarly, in the absence of OT-I T cells, the functional avidity of SIINFEKL-specific T cells increased from early to late times postinfection. However, even when exceedingly small numbers of OT-I T cells were transferred, their inflation limited the inflation of host-derived T cells specific for SIINFEKL. Importantly, subtle minor histocompatibility differences led to late rejection of the transferred OT-I T cells in some mice, which allowed host-derived T cells to inflate substantially. Thus, T cells with a high functional avidity are selected shortly after MCMV infection and continuously sustain their clonal dominance in a competitive manner.
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Assunto principal:
Peptídeos
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Linfócitos T
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Epitopos Imunodominantes
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Muromegalovirus
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Infecções por Herpesviridae
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Memória Imunológica
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Eur J Immunol
Ano de publicação:
2013
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Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos