Virus-Induced Transient Immune Suppression and the Inhibition of T Cell Proliferation by Type I Interferon
- 15 June 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 85 (12), 5929-5939
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.02516-10
Abstract
Vaccine-induced memory is necessary for protective immunity to pathogens, but many viruses induce a state of transient immune suppression that might contribute to the inability of a vaccine to elicit immunity. We evaluated here the fate of bystander T cells activated by third party cognate antigens during acute viral infectionsin vivo, using distinct models to track and specifically activate HY and P14 transgenic bystander CD8 T cellsin vivoduring acute arenavirus infections of mice. Viral infections acted as stimulatory adjuvants when bystander T cells were exposed to an inflammatory milieu and cognate antigens at the beginning of infections, but bystander CD8 T cell proliferation in response to cognate antigen was inhibited 3 to 9 days after virus infection. Reduced proliferation was not dependent on Fas-FasL- or tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-induced activation-induced cell death or on deficiencies of antigen presentation. Instead, reduced proliferation was associated with a delayed onset of division that was an intrinsic defect of T cells. Inhibition of proliferation could be simulated by exposure of T cells to the Toll-like receptor agonist and type I interferon (IFN) inducer poly(I · C). T cells lacking IFN-α/β receptors resisted both the suppressive effects of preexposure to poly(I · C) and the stimulatory effects of type I IFN, indicating that the timing of exposure to IFN can have negative or positive effects on T cell proliferation. Inhibition of T cell receptor-stimulated bystander CD8 T cell proliferation during acute viral infections may reflect the reduced ability of vaccines to elicit protective immunity when administered during an acute illness.This publication has 56 references indexed in Scilit:
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