Serum antibodies critically affect virus-specific CD4+/CD8+ T cell balance during respiratory syncytial virus infections.
Kruijsen, D; Bakkers, MJ; van Uden, NO; Viveen, MC; van der Sluis, TC; Kimpen, JL; Leusen, JH; Coenjaerts, FE; van Bleek, GM
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
185
6489-98
2009
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Following infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), reinfection in healthy individuals is common and presumably due to ineffective memory T cell responses. In peripheral blood of healthy adults, a higher CD4(+)/CD8(+) memory T cell ratio was observed compared with the ratio of virus-specific effector CD4(+)/CD8(+) T cells that we had found in earlier work during primary RSV infections. In mice, we show that an enhanced ratio of RSV-specific neutralizing to nonneutralizing Abs profoundly enhanced the CD4(+) T cell response during RSV infection. Moreover, FcγRs and complement factor C1q contributed to this Ab-mediated enhancement. Therefore, the increase in CD4(+) memory T cell response likely occurs through enhanced endosomal Ag processing dependent on FcγRs. The resulting shift in memory T cell response was likely amplified by suppressed T cell proliferation caused by RSV infection of APCs, a route important for Ag presentation via MHC class I molecules leading to CD8(+) T cell activation. Decreasing memory CD8(+) T cell numbers could explain the inadequate immunity during repeated RSV infections. Understanding this interplay of Ab-mediated CD4(+) memory T cell response enhancement and infection mediated CD8(+) memory T cell suppression is likely critical for development of effective RSV vaccines. | 20971927
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