An optimized CD8+ T-cell response controls productive and latent gammaherpesvirus infection.

ABSTRACT: Strategies to prime CD8(+) T cells against Murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (gammaHV68; MHV68) latency have, to date, resulted in only limited effects. While early forms of latency (<21 days) were significantly reduced, effects were not seen at later times, indicating loss of control by the primed CD8(+) T cells. In the present study, we evaluated CD8(+) T cells in an optimized system, consisting of OTI T-cell-receptor (TCR) transgenic mice, which generate clonal CD8(+) T cells specific for K(b)-SIINFEKL of OVA, and a recombinant gammaHV68 that expresses OVA (gammaHV68.OVA). Our aim was to test whether this optimized system would result in more effective control not only of acute infection but also of later forms of latent infection than was seen with previous strategies. First, we show that OTI

SUBMITTER: Braaten DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC546552 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature