Functional and phenotypic analysis of human memory CD8+ T cells expressing CXCR3
Functional and phenotypic analysis of human memory CD8+ T cells expressing CXCR3
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DOI:
10.1189/jlb.1205725
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发表时间:
2006-08-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Takiguchi, Masafumi
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作者:
Kobayashi, Naoki;Kondo, Takaaki;Takiguchi, Masafumi
Several chemokine receptors play an important role in the migration of naive, memory, and effector T cells. Flow cytometric analyses showed that human CD8(+) T cells with naive (CD27(+)CD28(+)CD45RA(+)) or memory (CD27(+)CD28(+/-) CD45RA(+)) phenotypes included a population expressing a high level of CXC chemokine receptor 3 (CXCR3(high)) and one expressing a low level of it (CXCR3(low)), but those with the effector phenotype (CD27(-)CD28(-)CD45RA(+/-)) included a population that did not express CXCR3 (CXCR3(-)) and a CXCR3(low) population. This relation between the expression level of CXCR3 and memory/effector phenotypes also applied to Epstein-Barr virus- or human cytomegalovirusspecific CD8(+) T cells. CXCR3(high) cells were found predominantly in CC chemokine receptor 7 (CCR7)(+)CCR5(-) and CCR7(-)CCR5(-) subsets of CD8(+) T cells with the CD27(+)CD28(+)CD45RA(-) memory phenotype, suggesting that they are memory cells with intermediate differentiation. Indeed, CXCR3(high) CD27(+)CD28(+)CD45RA(-)-CD8(+) T cells had the ability to produce interleukin-2 and interferon-gamma. These results together indicate that the expression of CXCR3 is upregulated on intermediately differentiated memory CD8(+) T cells. CXCR3(high) CD8(+) T cells had a greater ability to migrate in response to CXCR3 ligands than CXCR3(low) ones. As CXCR3(high) memory CD8(+) T cells do not express CCR5, high expression of CXCR3 on these memory CD8+ T cells might play an important role in the migration of these cells to inflammatory sites and in their differentiation. J. Leukoc. Biol. 80: 320-329;2006.