Adenovirus vector vaccination reprograms pulmonary fibroblastic niches to support protective inflating memory CD8⁺ T cells.

ABSTRACT: Pathogens and vaccines that produce persisting antigens can generate expanded pools of effector memory CD8⁺ T cells, described as memory inflation. While properties of inflating memory CD8⁺ T cells have been characterized, the specific cell types and tissue factors responsible for their maintenance remain elusive. Here, we show that clinically applied adenovirus vectors preferentially target fibroblastic stromal cells in cultured human tissues. Moreover, we used cell-type-specific antigen targeting to define critical cells and molecules that sustain long-term antigen presentation and T cell activity after adenovirus vector immunization in mice. While antigen targeting to myeloid cells was insufficient to activate antigen-specific CD8⁺ T cells, genetic activ

SUBMITTER: Cupovic J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7611414 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature