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Generation of antiviral major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted T cells in the absence of CD8 coreceptors.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Andrews, Nicolas P. Pack, Christopher D. Lukacher, Aron E. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | The CD8 coreceptor is important for positive selection of major histocompatibility complex I (MHC-I)-restricted thymocytes and in the generation of pathogen-specific T cells. However, the requirement for CD8 in these processes may not be essential. We previously showed that mice lacking beta(2)-microglobulin are highly susceptible to tumors induced by mouse polyoma virus (PyV), but CD8-deficient mice are resistant to these tumors. In this study, we show that CD8-deficient mice also control persistent PyV infection as efficiently as wild-type mice and generate a substantial virus-specific, MHC-I-restricted, T-cell response. Infection with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which is acutely cleared, also recruited antigen-specific, MHC-I-restricted T cells in CD8-deficient mice. Yet, unlike in VSV infection, the antiviral MHC-I-restricted T-cell response to PyV has a prolonged expansion phase, indicating a requirement for persistent infection in driving T-cell inflation in CD8-deficient mice. Finally, we show that the PyV-specific, MHC-I-restricted T cells in CD8-deficient mice, while maintained long term at near-wild-type levels, are short lived in vivo and have extremely narrow T-cell receptor repertoires. These findings provide a possible explanation for the resistance of CD8-deficient mice to PyV-induced tumors and have implications for the maintenance of virus-specific MHC-I-restricted T cells during persistent infection. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1128/JVI.02698-07 |
| PubMed reference number | 18337581 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 82 |
| Issue Number | 10 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://jvi.asm.org/content/82/10/4697.full.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.02698-07 |
| Journal | Journal of virology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |