Public clonotype usage identifies protective Gag-specific CD8+ T cell responses in SIV infection

Price, David A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9416-2737, Asher, Tedi E., Wilson, Nancy A., Nason, Martha C., Brenchley, Jason M., Metzler, Ian S., Venturi, Vanessa, Gostick, Emma, Chattopadhyay, Pratip K., Roederer, Mario, Davenport, Miles P., Watkins, David I. and Douek, Daniel C. 2009. Public clonotype usage identifies protective Gag-specific CD8+ T cell responses in SIV infection. Journal of Experimental Medicine 206 (4) , pp. 923-936. 10.1084/jem.20081127

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Abstract

Despite the pressing need for an AIDS vaccine, the determinants of protective immunity to HIV remain concealed within the complexity of adaptive immune responses. We dissected immunodominant virus-specific CD8+ T cell populations in Mamu-A*01+ rhesus macaques with primary SIV infection to elucidate the hallmarks of effective immunity at the level of individual constituent clonotypes, which were identified according to the expression of distinct T cell receptors (TCRs). The number of public clonotypes, defined as those that expressed identical TCR β-chain amino acid sequences and recurred in multiple individuals, contained within the acute phase CD8+ T cell population specific for the biologically constrained Gag CM9 (CTPYDINQM; residues 181–189) epitope correlated negatively with the virus load set point. This independent molecular signature of protection was confirmed in a prospective vaccine trial, in which clonotype engagement was governed by the nature of the antigen rather than the context of exposure and public clonotype usage was associated with enhanced recognition of epitope variants. Thus, the pattern of antigen-specific clonotype recruitment within a protective CD8+ T cell population is a prognostic indicator of vaccine efficacy and biological outcome in an AIDS virus infection.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)
Subjects:	Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
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Publisher:	Rockerfeller University Press
ISSN:	0022-1007
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	23 May 2023 21:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/24977

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