TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterisation of human cytomegalovirus peptide-specific CD8+ T cell repertoire diversity following in vitro re-stimulation by antigen pulsed dendritic cells
AU - Peggs, K
AU - Verfuerth, S
AU - Pizzey, A
AU - Ainsworth, Jennifer
AU - Moss, Paul
AU - Mackinnon, S
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - Under conditions of impaired T-cell immunity, human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can reactivate from lifelong latency, resulting in potentially fatal disease. A crucial role for CD8(+) T cells has been demonstrated in control of viral replication, and high levels of HCMV-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes are seen in immunocompetent HCMV-seropositive individuals despite very low viral loads. Elucidation of the minimum portion of the anti-HCMV T-cell repertoire that is required to suppress viral replication requires further study of clonal composition. The ability of dendritic cells to take up and process exogenous viral antigen by constitutive mac-ropinocytosis was used to study HCMV-specific T-cell memory in the absence of viral replication. The specificity and clonal composition of the CD8(+) T-c:ell responses were evaluated using HLA-tetrameric complexes and T-cell receptor beta chain (TCRBV) spectratypic analyses. There was a skewed reactivity toward the matrix protein pp65, with up to 40-fold expansion of CD8+ T cells directed toward a single peptide-MHC combination. Individual expansions detected on TCRBV spectratype analysis were HCMV-specific and composed of single or highly restricted numbers of clones. There was preferential TCRBV gene usage (BV6.1/6.2, BV8, and BV13 in HLA-A*0201(+) individuals) but lack of conservation of CDR3 length and junctional motifs between donors. While there was a spectrum of TCR repertoire diversity directed toward individual MHC-peptide combinations between donors, a relatively small number of clones appeared to predominate the response in each cased These data provide further insight into the range of anti-HCMV responses and will aid the design and monitoring of adoptive immunotherapy protocols.
AB - Under conditions of impaired T-cell immunity, human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can reactivate from lifelong latency, resulting in potentially fatal disease. A crucial role for CD8(+) T cells has been demonstrated in control of viral replication, and high levels of HCMV-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes are seen in immunocompetent HCMV-seropositive individuals despite very low viral loads. Elucidation of the minimum portion of the anti-HCMV T-cell repertoire that is required to suppress viral replication requires further study of clonal composition. The ability of dendritic cells to take up and process exogenous viral antigen by constitutive mac-ropinocytosis was used to study HCMV-specific T-cell memory in the absence of viral replication. The specificity and clonal composition of the CD8(+) T-c:ell responses were evaluated using HLA-tetrameric complexes and T-cell receptor beta chain (TCRBV) spectratypic analyses. There was a skewed reactivity toward the matrix protein pp65, with up to 40-fold expansion of CD8+ T cells directed toward a single peptide-MHC combination. Individual expansions detected on TCRBV spectratype analysis were HCMV-specific and composed of single or highly restricted numbers of clones. There was preferential TCRBV gene usage (BV6.1/6.2, BV8, and BV13 in HLA-A*0201(+) individuals) but lack of conservation of CDR3 length and junctional motifs between donors. While there was a spectrum of TCR repertoire diversity directed toward individual MHC-peptide combinations between donors, a relatively small number of clones appeared to predominate the response in each cased These data provide further insight into the range of anti-HCMV responses and will aid the design and monitoring of adoptive immunotherapy protocols.
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U2 - 10.1182/blood.V99.1.213
DO - 10.1182/blood.V99.1.213
M3 - Article
C2 - 11756174
SN - 1528-0020
VL - 99
SP - 213
EP - 223
JO - Blood
JF - Blood
IS - 1
ER -