Neuroimmunological aspects of human T cell leukemia virus type 1- associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis.
Neuroimmunological aspects of human T cell leukemia virus type 1- associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis.
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人类 T 细胞白血病病毒 1 型相关脊髓病/热带痉挛性截瘫的神经免疫学方面。
DOI:
10.1007/s13365-013-0192-8
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发表时间:
2014
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影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Saito M.
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作者:
Tanaka Y;Takahashi Y;Tanaka R;Kodama A;Fujii H;Hasegawa A;Kannagi M;Ansari AA;Saito M.;Saito M.
Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a replicationcompetent human retrovirus associated with two distinct types of disease: a malignancy of mature CD4+ T cells called adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL)(Hinuma et al. 1981; Poiesz et al. 1980; Yoshida et al. 1984) and a chronic inflammatory central nervous system disease HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP)(Gessain et al. 1985; Osame et al. 1986). Like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), HTLV-1 is never eliminated from the host despite vigorous cellular and humoral immune responses. However, in contrast to HIV infection, few with HTLV-1 develop disease; only approximately 2–3% of infected persons develop ATL (Tajima 1990), another 0.25–4% develop HAM/TSP (Hisada et al. 2004; Kramer et al. 1995; Nakagawa et al. 1995; Osame et al. 1990), and the majority of infected individuals remain lifelong asymptomatic carriers (ACs). Therefore, evaluation of the individual risk of developing disease in ACs would certainly be of considerable importance, especially in HTLV-1 endemic areas.The viral, host, and environmental risk factors as well as the host immune response against HTLV-1 infection appear to regulate the development of HTLV-1-associated diseases (Bangham and Osame 2005). In particular, a strong immune response, especially the cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response, to HTLV-1 is seen in patients with HAM/TSP and suggested to be strongly associated with the pathogenesis of HTLV-1-associated diseases (Matsuura et al. 2010; Saito et al. 2012). For more than two decades, the investigation of HTLV-1-mediated immunopathogenesis has focused on Tax, an HTLV-1-encoded viral oncoprotein, because Tax activates many cellular genes by binding to groups of transcription factors and coactivators and is necessary and sufficient for cellular transformation. However, recent reports have identified that another regulatory protein, HTLV-1 basic leucine zipper factor (HBZ), also has a critical role in the development of ATL and HAM/TSP (Matsuoka and Jeang 2011). This review summarizes past and recent studies of HAM/TSP, attempting to answer the following fundamental questions: Why do some HTLV-1-infected people develop disease whereas the vast majority remain healthy? How does HTLV-1 persist in the individual host despite a strong host immune response? How is the inflammatory lesion in HAM/TSP initiated and maintained?