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HIV-Specific CD8+ T Cells Exhibit Reduced and Differentially Regulated Cytolytic Activity in Lymphoid Tissue.

ABSTRACT: Elimination of lymphoid tissue reservoirs is a key component of HIV eradication strategies. CD8+ T cells play a critical role in control of HIV, but their functional attributes in lymph nodes (LNs) remain unclear. Here, we show that memory, follicular CXCR5+, and HIV-specific CD8+ T cells from LNs do not manifest the properties of cytolytic CD8+ T cells. While the frequency of follicular CXCR5+ CD8+ T cells was strongly inversely associated with peripheral viremia, this association was not dependent on cytolytic CXCR5+ CD8+ T cells. Moreover, the poor cytolytic activity of LN CD8+ T cells was linked to a compartmentalized dissociation between effector programming and the transcription factor T-bet. In line with this, activation of LN CD8+ T cells only partially induced the acquisition of cytolytic functions relative to peripheral blood CD8+ T cells. These results suggest that a state of immune privilege against CD8+ T cell-mediated cytolysis exists in lymphoid tissue, potentially facilitating the persistence of HIV.

SUBMITTER: Reuter MA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5764192 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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HIV-Specific CD8+ T Cells Exhibit Reduced and Differentially Regulated Cytolytic Activity in Lymphoid Tissue.

Reuter Morgan A MA Del Rio Estrada Perla M PM Buggert Marcus M Petrovas Constantinos C Ferrando-Martinez Sara S Nguyen Son S Sada Japp Alberto A Ablanedo-Terrazas Yuria Y Rivero-Arrieta Amaranta A Kuri-Cervantes Leticia L Gunzelman Heidi M HM Gostick Emma E Price David A DA Koup Richard A RA Naji Ali A Canaday David H DH Reyes-Terán Gustavo G Betts Michael R MR

Cell reports 20171201 12

Elimination of lymphoid tissue reservoirs is a key component of HIV eradication strategies. CD8+ T cells play a critical role in control of HIV, but their functional attributes in lymph nodes (LNs) remain unclear. Here, we show that memory, follicular CXCR5+, and HIV-specific CD8+ T cells from LNs do not manifest the properties of cytolytic CD8+ T cells. While the frequency of follicular CXCR5+ CD8+ T cells was strongly inversely ...[more]

PMID: 29262326

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HIV-Specific CD8+ T Cells Exhibit Reduced and Differentially Regulated Cytolytic Activity in Lymphoid Tissue.

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