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Human Salmonella Typhi exposure generates differential multifunctional cross-reactive T-cell memory responses against Salmonella Paratyphi and invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There are no vaccines for most of the major invasive Salmonella strains causing severe infection in humans. We evaluated the specificity of adaptive T memory cell responses generated after Salmonella Typhi exposure in humans against other major invasive Salmonella strains sharing capacity for dissemination.

Methods

T memory cells from eleven volunteers who underwent controlled oral challenge with wt S. Typhi were characterised by flow cytometry for cross-reactive cellular cytokine/chemokine effector responses or evidence of degranulation upon stimulation with autologous B-lymphoblastoid cells infected with either S. Typhi, Salmonella Paratyphi A (PA), S. Paratyphi B (PB) or an invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella strain of the S. Typhimurium serovar (iNTSTy).

Results

Blood T-cell effector memory (T_EM) responses after exposure to S. Typhi in humans evolve late, peaking weeks after infection in most volunteers. Induced multifunctional CD4⁺ Th1 and CD8⁺ T_EM cells elicited after S. Typhi challenge were cross-reactive with PA, PB and iNTSTy. The magnitude of multifunctional CD4⁺ T_EM cell responses to S. Typhi correlated with induction of cross-reactive multifunctional CD8⁺ T_EM cells against PA, PB and iNTSTy. Highly multifunctional subsets and T central memory and T effector memory cells that re-express CD45 (T_EMRA) demonstrated less heterologous T-cell cross-reactivity, and multifunctional Th17 elicited after S. Typhi challenge was not cross-reactive against other invasive Salmonella.

Conclusion

Gaps in cross-reactive immune effector functions in human T-cell memory compartments were highly dependent on invasive Salmonella strain, underscoring the importance of strain-dependent vaccination in the design of T-cell-based vaccines for invasive Salmonella.

SUBMITTER: Rapaka RR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7512505 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Human <i>Salmonella</i> Typhi exposure generates differential multifunctional cross-reactive T-cell memory responses against <i>Salmonella</i> Paratyphi and invasive nontyphoidal <i>Salmonella</i>.

Rapaka Rekha R RR Wahid Rezwanul R Fresnay Stephanie S Booth Jayaum S JS Darton Thomas C TC Jones Claire C Waddington Claire S CS Levine Myron M MM Pollard Andrew J AJ Sztein Marcelo B MB

Clinical & translational immunology 20200924 9

<h4>Objective</h4>There are no vaccines for most of the major invasive <i>Salmonella</i> strains causing severe infection in humans. We evaluated the specificity of adaptive T memory cell responses generated after <i>Salmonella</i> Typhi exposure in humans against other major invasive <i>Salmonella</i> strains sharing capacity for dissemination.<h4>Methods</h4>T memory cells from eleven volunteers who underwent controlled oral challenge with <i>wt</i> <i>S</i>. Typhi were characterised by flow c ...[more]

PMID: 33005416

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