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Cytokine production by virus-specific CD8 T cells varies with activation state and localization, but not with TCR avidity Free

Abstract

The ability of virus-specific CD8 T cells to produce cytokines was studied in mice infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus and vesicular stomatitis virus. Intracellular staining was used to visualize cytokine-producing CD8 and CD4 T cells. Overall, virus-specific CD8 T cells produce a similar range of cytokines (IFN-, TNF-, IL-2, GM-CSF, RANTES, MIP-1 and MIP-1) as CD4 T cells, but the relative distribution of cytokine-producing subsets is different. Moreover, cytokine-producing CD8 T cells were found to dominate numerically at all time-points tested. Co-staining for more than one cytokine revealed that while all cytokine-producing CD8 T cells synthesized IFN-, additional cytokines were produced by partly overlapping subsets of this population. The frequency of cells producing more than one cytokine was higher in a tertiary site (peritoneum) and generally increased with transition into the memory phase; however, GM-CSF producing cells were only present transiently. Concerning factors predicted to influence the distribution of cytokine-producing subsets, IFN- and IL-12 did not play a role, nor was extensive virus replication essential. Notably, regarding the heterogeneity in cytokine production by individual cells with similar epitope specificity, variation in TCR avidity was not the cause, since -activated TCR transgene-expressing cells were as heterogeneous in cytokine expression as polyclonal cells specific for the same epitope.

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Cytokine production by virus-specific CD8+ T cells varies with activation state and localization, but not with TCR avidity
J. Gen. Virol. 85, 1703 (2004); https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.79903-0
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