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Cross-reactive memory CD8(+) T cells alter the immune response to heterologous secondary dengue virus infections in mice in a sequence-specific manner
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Student Publications
  • Coreen Michele Beaumier, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Anuja Mathew, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Hema Sundara Bashyam, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Alan L. Rothman, University of Massachusetts Medical School
UMMS Affiliation
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Publication Date
2008-2-16
Document Type
Article
Abstract

Dengue virus is the causative agent of dengue fever and the more-severe dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). Human studies suggest that the increased risk of DHF during secondary infection is due to immunopathology partially mediated by cross-reactive memory T cells from the primary infection. To model T cell responses to sequential infections, we immunized mice with different sequences of dengue virus serotypes and measured the frequency of peptide-specific T cells after infection. The acute response after heterologous secondary infections was enhanced compared with the acute or memory response after primary infection. Also, the hierarchy of epitope-specific responses was influenced by the specific sequence of infection. Adoptive-transfer experiments showed that memory T cells responded preferentially to the secondary infection. These findings demonstrate that cross-reactive T cells from a primary infection alter the immune response during a heterologous secondary infection.

DOI of Published Version
10.1086/526790
Source
J Infect Dis. 2008 Feb 15;197(4):608-17. Link to article on publisher's site
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PubMed ID
18275279
Citation Information
Coreen Michele Beaumier, Anuja Mathew, Hema Sundara Bashyam and Alan L. Rothman. "Cross-reactive memory CD8(+) T cells alter the immune response to heterologous secondary dengue virus infections in mice in a sequence-specific manner" Vol. 197 Iss. 4 (2008) ISSN: 0022-1899 (Print)
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