Journal article
Preferential HLA-B27 Allorecognition Displayed by Multiple Cross-Reactive Antiviral CD8 T Cell Receptors
LC Rowntree, H van den Heuvel, J Sun, LJ D'Orsogna, THO Nguyen, FHJ Claas, J Rossjohn, TC Kotsimbos, AW Purcell, NA Mifsud
Frontiers in Immunology | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA | Published : 2020
Abstract
T cells provide essential immunosurveillance to combat and eliminate infection from pathogens, yet these cells can also induce unwanted immune responses via T cell receptor (TCR) cross-reactivity, also known as heterologous immunity. Indeed, pathogen-induced TCR cross-reactivity has shown to be a common, robust, and functionally potent mechanism that can trigger a spectrum of human immunopathologies associated with either transplant rejection, drug allergy, and autoimmunity. Here, we report that several virus-specific CD8+ T cells directed against peptides derived from chronic viruses (EBV, CMV, and HIV-1) presented by high frequency HLA-A and -B allomorphs differentially cross-react toward ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Project Grant (1085018) to AP, NM, and TK, by theMargaret Pratt Foundation to NM and TK, and by the Dutch Kidney Foundation (CP09.04) to HH and FC. AP was supported by a NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship (1137739).