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- Title
Cytomegalovirus infection reduced CD70 expression, signaling and expansion of viral specific memory CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells in healthy human adults.
- Authors
Lu, Jian; Chen, Guobing; Sorokina, Arina; Nguyen, Thomas; Wallace, Tonya; Nguyen, Cuong; Dunn, Christopher; Wang, Stephanie; Ellis, Samantha; Shi, Guixin; McKelvey, Julia; Sharov, Alexei; Liu, Yu-Tsueng; Schneck, Jonathan; Weng, Nan-ping
- Abstract
Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection leads to effector memory CD8+ T cell expansion and is associated with immune dysfunction in older adults. However, the molecular alterations of CMV-specific CD8+ T cells in CMV infected healthy young and middle-aged adults has not been fully characterized. Results: We compared CD8+ T cells specific for a CMV epitope (pp65495-503, NLV) and an influenza A virus (IAV) epitope (M158-66, GIL) from the same young and middle-aged healthy adults with serum positive for anti-CMV IgG. Compared to the IAV-specific CD8+ T cells, CMV-specific CD8+ T cells contained more differentiated effector memory (TEM and TEMRA) cells. Isolated CMV-specific central memory (TCM) but not naïve (TN) cells had a significant reduced activation-induced expansion in vitro compared to their IAV-specific counterparts. Furthermore, we found that CD70 expression was reduced in CMV-specific CD28+CD8+ TCM and that CD70+ TCM had better expansion in vitro than did CD70- TCM. Mechanistically, we showed that CD70 directly enhanced MAPK phosphorylation and CMV-specific CD8+ TCM cells had a reduced MAPK signaling upon activation. Lastly, we showed that age did not exacerbate reduced CD70 expression in CMV- specific CD8+ TCM cells. Conclusion: Our findings showed that CMV infection causes mild expansion of CMV-NLV-specific CD8+ T cells, reduced CD70 expression and signaling, and proliferation of CMV-NLV-specific CD8+ TCM cells in young and middle-aged healthy adults and revealed an age-independent and CMV infection-specific impact on CD8+ memory T cells.
- Subjects
IMMUNOLOGIC memory; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS diseases; MIDDLE-aged persons; T cells; OLDER people; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL memory
- Publication
Immunity & Ageing, 2022, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1742-4933
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12979-022-00307-7