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Memory CD8+ T cells elicited by HIV-1 lipopeptide vaccines display similar phenotypic profiles but differences in term of magnitude and multifunctiona

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Vaccine. 2013 Nov 26. pii: S0264-410X(13)01586-7. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.11.052. [Epub ahead of print]
Memory CD8+ T cells elicited by HIV-1 lipopeptide vaccines display similar phenotypic profiles but differences in term of magnitude and multifunctionality compared with FLU- or EBV-specific memory T cells in humans.
Figueiredo S, Charmeteau B, Surenaud M, Salmon D, Launay O, Guillet JG, Hosmalin A, Gahery H.
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Inserm U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France; CNRS UMR8104, Paris, France; Univ Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
Abstract

Differentiation marker, multifunctionality and magnitude analyses of specific-CD8+ memory T cells are crucial to improve development of HIV vaccines designed to generate cell-mediated immunity. Therefore, we fully characterized the HIV-specific CD8+ T cell responses induced in volunteers vaccinated with HIV lipopeptide vaccines for phenotypic markers, tetramer staining, cytokine secretion, and cytotoxic activities. The frequency of ex vivo CD8+ T cells elicited by lipopeptide vaccines is very rare and central-memory phenotype and functions of these cells were been shown to be important in AIDS immunity. So, we expanded them using specific peptides to compare the memory T cell responses induced in volunteers by HIV vaccines with responses to influenza (FLU) or Epstein Barr virus (EBV). By analyzing the differentiation state of IFN-γ-secreting CD8+ T cells, we found a CCR7-CD45RA-CD28+int/CD28- profile (>85%) belonging to a subset of intermediate-differentiated effector T cells for HIV, FLU, and EBV. We then assessed the quality of the response by measuring various T cell functions. The percentage of single IFN-γ T cell producers in response to HIV was 62% of the total of secreting T cells compared with 35% for FLU and EBV, dual and triple (IFN-γ/IL-2/CD107a) T cell producers could also be detected but at lower levels (8% compared with 37%). Finally, HIV-specific T cells secreted IFN-γ and TNF-α, but not the dual combination like FLU- and EBV-specific T cells. Thus, we found that the functional profile and magnitude of expanded HIV-specific CD8+ T precursors were more limited than those of to FLU- and EBV-specific CD8+ T cells. These data show that CD8+ T cells induced by these HIV vaccines have a similar differentiation profile to FLU and EBV CD8+ T cells, but that the vaccine potency to induce multifunctional T cells needs to be increased in order to improve vaccination strategies.

Copyright ? 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS:

CD8(+) T cells, Cytokines, Differentiation, HIV-lipopeptide vaccine, Human, Maturation

PMID:
24291199
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24291199
 
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