Unusually high frequencies of HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in humans.
Unusually high frequencies of HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in humans.
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人类中 HIV 特异性细胞毒性 T 淋巴细胞的出现频率异常高。
DOI:
10.4049/jimmunol.142.2.452
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
F. Plata
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作者:
A. Hoffenbach;P. Langlade‐Demoyen;G. Dadaglio;E. Vilmer;F. Michel;C. Mayaud;B. Autran;F. Plata
CTL specific for the HIV belong to the CD8 subset of T lymphocytes, and their activity is restricted by class I HLA transplantation Ag. In this report, HIV-specific CTL and their precursor cells were quantified by limiting dilution analysis. CTL were recovered from the lungs, lymph nodes, and blood of asymptomatic seropositive carriers and of patients with AIDS. HIV was found to be very immunogenic. High frequencies of both HIV-specific CTL and CTL precursor cells were detected in infected individuals. These CTL killed autologous HIV-infected macrophages and T4 lymphoblasts. They also killed doubly transfected P815-A2-env-LAV mouse tumor cells, which express the human HLA-A2 gene and the HIV-1 env gene. In the longitudinal studies of two HIV-infected patients, CTL and CTL precursor cell frequencies decreased as the clinical and immunologic status of the patients deteriorated. Most surprisingly, PBL from seronegative donors also responded to HIV stimulation in vitro and generated large numbers of HLA-restricted, HIV-specific CTL.