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- Title
Narrowed TCR repertoire and viral escape as a consequence of heterologous immunity.
- Authors
Cornberg, Markus; Chen, Alex T.; Wilkinson, Lee A.; Brehm, Michael A.; Sung-Kwon Kim; Calcagno, Claudia; Ghersi, Dario; Puzone, Roberto; Celada, Franco; Welsh, Raymond M.; Selin, Liisa K.; Kim, Sung-Kwon
- Abstract
Why some virus-specific CD8 TCR repertoires are diverse and others restricted or "oligoclonal" has been unknown. We show here that oligoclonality and extreme clonal dominance can be a consequence of T cell cross-reactivity. Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) and Pichinde virus (PV) encode NP(205-212) epitopes that induce different but highly cross-reactive diverse TCR repertoires. Homologous viral challenge of immune mice only slightly skewed the repertoire and enriched for predictable TCR motifs. However, heterologous viral challenge resulted in a narrow oligoclonal repertoire with dominant clones with unpredictable TCR sequences. This shift in clonal dominance varied with the private, i.e., unique, specificity of the host's TCR repertoire and was simulated using affinity-based computer models. The skewing differences in TCR repertoire following homologous versus heterologous challenge were observed within the same private immune system in mice adoptively reconstituted with memory CD8 T cell pools from the same donor. Conditions driving oligoclonality resulted in an LCMV epitope escape variant in vivo resembling the natural Lassa virus sequence. Thus, T cell oligoclonality, including extremes in clonal dominance, may be a consequence of heterologous immunity and lead to viral escape. This has implications for the design of peptide-based vaccines, which might unintentionally prime for skewed TCR responses to cross-reactive epitopes.
- Subjects
IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTIC choriomeningitis; EPITOPES; T cells; VACCINES; IMMUNE system; IMMUNE system physiology; METABOLISM in RNA viruses; ANIMAL experimentation; ANTIGENS; CELL lines; CELL receptors; COMPARATIVE studies; HAMSTERS; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; MICE; PEPTIDES; RESEARCH; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2006, Vol 116, Issue 5, p1443
- ISSN
0021-9738
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1172/JCI27804