Human rotavirus specific T cells: quantification by ELISPOT and expression of homing receptors on CD4+ T cells |
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Authors: | Rojas Olga Lucía González Ana María González Rosabel Pérez-Schael Irene Greenberg Harry B Franco Manuel A Angel Juana |
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Affiliation: | Instituto de Genetica Humana, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. |
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Abstract: | Using an intracellular cytokine assay, we recently showed that the frequencies of rotavirus (RV)-specific CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells secreting INFgamma, circulating in RV infected and healthy adults, are very low compared to the frequencies of circulating cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactive T cells in comparable individuals. In children with acute RV infection, these T cells were barely or not detectable. In the present study, an ELISPOT assay enabled detection of circulating RV-specific INFgamma-secreting cells in children with RV diarrhea but not in children with non-RV diarrhea without evidence of a previous RV infection. Using microbead-enriched CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell subsets, IFNgamma-secreting RV-specific CD8(+) but not CD4(+) T cells were detected in recently infected children. Using the same approach, both CD4(+) and CD8(+) RV-specific T cells were detected in healthy adults. Furthermore, stimulation of purified subsets of PBMC that express lymphocyte homing receptors demonstrated that RV-specific INFgamma-secreting CD4(+) T cells from adult volunteers preferentially express the intestinal homing receptor alpha4beta7, but not the peripheral lymph node homing receptor L-selectin. In contrast, CMV-specific INFgamma-secreting CD4(+) T cells preferentially express L-selectin but not alpha4beta7. These results suggest that the expression of homing receptors on virus-specific T cells depends on the organ where these cells were originally stimulated and that their capacity to secrete INFgamma is independent of the expression of these homing receptors. |
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Keywords: | Rotavirus T cells Cytokines Lymphocyte homing receptors Children Diarrhea |
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