Temporal Dynamics of the Primary Human T Cell Response to Yellow Fever Virus 17D As It Matures from an Effector- to a Memory-Type Response
- 1 March 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 190 (5), 2150-2158
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1202234
Abstract
The live attenuated yellow fever virus (YFV) 17D vaccine provides a good model to study immune responses to an acute viral infection in humans. We studied the temporal dynamics, composition, and character of the primary human T cell response to YFV. The acute YFV-specific effector CD8 T cell response was broad and complex; it was composed of dominant responses that persisted into the memory population, as well as of transient subdominant responses that were not detected at the memory stage. Furthermore, HLA-A2– and HLA-B7–restricted YFV epitope–specific effector cells predominantly displayed a CD45RA−CCR7−PD-1+CD27high phenotype, which transitioned into a CD45RA+CCR7−PD-1−CD27low memory population phenotype. The functional profile of the YFV-specific CD8 T cell response changed in composition as it matured from an effector- to a memory-type response, and it tended to become less polyfunctional during the course of this transition. Interestingly, activation of CD4 T cells, as well as FOXP3+ T regulatory cells, in response to YFV vaccination preceded the kinetics of the CD8 T cell response. The present results contribute to our understanding of how immunodominance patterns develop, as well as the phenotypic and functional characteristics of the primary human T cell response to a viral infection as it evolves and matures into memory.This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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