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Chronic virus infection drives CD8 T cell-mediated thymic destruction and impaired negative selection.


ABSTRACT: Chronic infection provokes alterations in inflammatory and suppressive pathways that potentially affect the function and integrity of multiple tissues, impacting both ongoing immune control and restorative immune therapies. Here we demonstrate that chronic lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection rapidly triggers severe thymic depletion, mediated by CD8 T cell-intrinsic type I interferon (IFN) and signal transducer and activator of transcription 2 (Stat2) signaling. Occurring temporal to T cell exhaustion, thymic cellularity reconstituted despite ongoing viral replication, with a rapid secondary thymic depletion following immune restoration by anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PDL1) blockade. Therapeutic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) during chronic infection generated new antiviral CD8 T cells, despite sustained virus replication in the thymus, indicating an impairment in negative selection. Consequently, low amounts of high-affinity self-reactive T cells also escaped the thymus following HSCT during chronic infection. Thus, by altering the stringency and partially impairing negative selection, the host generates new virus-specific T cells to replenish the fight against the chronic infection, but also has the potentially dangerous effect of enabling the escape of self-reactive T cells.

SUBMITTER: Elsaesser HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7071912 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Chronic virus infection drives CD8 T cell-mediated thymic destruction and impaired negative selection.

Elsaesser Heidi J HJ   Mohtashami Mahmood M   Osokine Ivan I   Snell Laura M LM   Cunningham Cameron R CR   Boukhaled Giselle M GM   McGavern Dorian B DB   Zúñiga-Pflücker Juan Carlos JC   Brooks David G DG  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200224 10


Chronic infection provokes alterations in inflammatory and suppressive pathways that potentially affect the function and integrity of multiple tissues, impacting both ongoing immune control and restorative immune therapies. Here we demonstrate that chronic lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection rapidly triggers severe thymic depletion, mediated by CD8 T cell-intrinsic type I interferon (IFN) and signal transducer and activator of transcription 2 (Stat2) signaling. Occurring temporal to T c  ...[more]

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