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Memory T cells possess an innate-like function in local protection from mucosal infection

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العنوان: Memory T cells possess an innate-like function in local protection from mucosal infection
المؤلفون: Tanvi Arkatkar, Veronica Davé, Irene Cruz Talavera, Jessica B. Graham, Jessica L. Swarts, Sean M. Hughes, Timothy A. Bell, Pablo Hock, Joe Farrington, Ginger D. Shaw, Anna Kirby, Michael Fialkow, Meei-Li Huang, Keith R. Jerome, Martin T. Ferris, Florian Hladik, Joshua T. Schiffer, Martin Prlic, Jennifer M. Lund
المصدر: The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Vol 133, Iss 10 (2023)
بيانات النشر: American Society for Clinical Investigation
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
مصطلحات موضوعية: Immunology, Infectious disease, Medicine
الوصف: Mucosal infections pose a significant global health burden. Antigen-specific tissue-resident T cells are critical to maintaining barrier immunity. Previous studies in the context of systemic infection suggest that memory CD8+ T cells may also provide innate-like protection against antigenically unrelated pathogens independent of T cell receptor engagement. Whether bystander T cell activation is also an important defense mechanism in the mucosa is poorly understood. Here, we investigated whether innate-like memory CD8+ T cells could protect against a model mucosal virus infection, herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2). We found that immunization with an irrelevant antigen delayed disease progression from lethal HSV-2 challenge, suggesting that memory CD8+ T cells may mediate protection despite the lack of antigen specificity. Upon HSV-2 infection, we observed an early infiltration, rather than substantial local proliferation, of antigen-nonspecific CD8+ T cells, which became bystander-activated only within the infected mucosal tissue. Critically, we show that bystander-activated CD8+ T cells are sufficient to reduce early viral burden after HSV-2 infection. Finally, local cytokine cues within the tissue microenvironment after infection were sufficient for bystander activation of mucosal tissue memory CD8+ T cells from mice and humans. Altogether, our findings suggest that local bystander activation of CD8+ memory T cells contributes a fast and effective innate-like response to infection in mucosal tissue.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1558-8238
Relation: https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI162800; https://doaj.org/toc/1558-8238; https://doaj.org/article/c1f6027d12e448b38a3cfc27c143ba2e
الاتاحة: https://doaj.org/article/c1f6027d12e448b38a3cfc27c143ba2e
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.6D8D0E2B
قاعدة البيانات: BASE