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Association of Premature Immune Aging and Cytomegalovirus After Solid Organ Transplant.


ABSTRACT: Immune function is altered with increasing age. Infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) accelerates age-related immunological changes resulting in expanded oligoclonal memory CD8 T cell populations with impaired proliferation, signaling, and cytokine production. As a consequence, elderly CMV seropositive (CMV+) individuals have increased mortality and impaired responses to other infections in comparison to seronegative (CMV-) individuals of the same age. CMV is also a significant complication after organ transplantation, and recent studies have shown that CMV-associated expansion of memory T cells is accelerated after transplantation. Thus, we investigated whether immune aging is accelerated post-transplant, using a combination of telomere length, flow cytometry phenotyping, and single cell RNA sequencing. Telomere length decreased slightly in the first year after transplantation in a subset of both CMV+ and CMV- recipients with a strong concordance between CD57+ cells and short telomeres. Phenotypically aged cells increased post-transplant specifically in CMV+ recipients, and clonally expanded T cells were enriched for terminally differentiated cells post-transplant. Overall, these findings demonstrate a pattern of accelerated aging of the CD8 T cell compartment in CMV+ transplant recipients.

SUBMITTER: Higdon LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8190404 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Association of Premature Immune Aging and Cytomegalovirus After Solid Organ Transplant.

Higdon Lauren E LE   Gustafson Claire E CE   Ji Xuhuai X   Sahoo Malaya K MK   Pinsky Benjamin A BA   Margulies Kenneth B KB   Maecker Holden T HT   Goronzy Jorg J   Maltzman Jonathan S JS  

Frontiers in immunology 20210527


Immune function is altered with increasing age. Infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) accelerates age-related immunological changes resulting in expanded oligoclonal memory CD8 T cell populations with impaired proliferation, signaling, and cytokine production. As a consequence, elderly CMV seropositive (CMV<sup>+</sup>) individuals have increased mortality and impaired responses to other infections in comparison to seronegative (CMV<sup>-</sup>) individuals of the same age. CMV is also a signific  ...[more]

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