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- Title
Adoptive CD8 T Cell Control of Pathogens Cannot Be Improved by Combining Protective Epitope Specificities.
- Authors
Holtappels, Rafaela; Janda, Jozef; Thomas, Doris; Schenk, Simone; Reddehase, Matthias J.; Geginat, Gernot
- Abstract
Adoptive transfer of CD8 T cells has the potential to cure infectious or malignant diseases that are refractory to conventional chemotherapy. A practically important but still unanswered question is whether mixtures of protective CD8 T cells with different epitope specificities mediate more efficient effector cell functions than do the monospecific individual CD8 T cell populations. In this study, we have addressed this issue for models of viral and bacterial infection. CD8 T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in vitro and protection in vivo were assessed to test whether CD8 T cell lines cooperate in target cell lysis and control of infection, respectively. Our data clearly show that mixtures of cytolytic T cell lines specific for different epitopes of either murine cytomegalovirus or Listeria monocytogenes do not act synergistically. An efficient anti-infectious protection thus proved to be dependent primarily on the number of transferred protective CD8 T cells rather than on the cooperative effects of multiple specificities.
- Subjects
T cells; EPITOPES; PATHOGENIC microorganisms; MEDICAL microbiology; LYMPHOCYTES; LEUCOCYTES; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2008, Vol 197, Issue 4, p622
- ISSN
0022-1899
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/526791