Circumsporozoite protein-specific K(d)-restricted CD8+ T cells mediate protective antimalaria immunity in sporozoite-immunized MHC-I-K(d) transgenic mice.
Circumsporozoite protein-specific K(d)-restricted CD8+ T cells mediate protective antimalaria immunity in sporozoite-immunized MHC-I-K(d) transgenic mice.
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环子孢子蛋白特异性 K(d) 限制性 CD8 T 细胞在子孢子免疫的 MHC-I-K(d) 转基因小鼠中介导保护性抗疟免疫。
DOI:
10.1155/2014/728939
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Tsuji,Moriya
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作者:
Huang,Jing;Tsao,Tiffany;Zhang,Min;Tsuji,Moriya
Although the roles of CD8+ T cells and a major preerythrocytic antigen, the circumsporozoite (CS) protein, in contributing protective antimalaria immunity induced by radiation‐attenuated sporozoites, have been shown by a number of studies, the extent to which these players contribute to antimalaria immunity is still unknown. To address this question, we have generated C57BL/6 (B6) transgenic (Tg) mice, expressing Kdmolecules under the MHC‐I promoter, called MHC‐I‐Kd‐Tg mice. In this study, we first determined that a single immunizing dose of IrPySpz induced a significant level of antimalaria protective immunity in MHC‐I‐Kd‐Tg mice but not in B6 mice. Then, by depleting various T‐cell subsetsin vivo, we determined that CD8+ T cells are the main mediator of the protective immunity induced by IrPySpz. Furthermore, when we immunized (MHC‐I‐Kd‐Tg × CS‐Tg) F1 mice with IrPySpz after crossing MHC‐I‐Kd‐Tg mice with PyCS‐transgenic mice (CS‐Tg), which are unable to mount PyCS‐specific immunity, we found that IrPySpz immunization failed to induce protective antimalaria immunity in (MHC‐I‐Kd‐Tg × CS‐Tg) F1 mice, thus indicating the absence of PyCS antigen‐dependent immunity in these mice. These results indicate that protective antimalaria immunity induced by IrPySpz in MHC‐I‐Kd‐Tg mice is mediated by CS protein‐specific, Kd‐restricted CD8+ T cells.