Protection against CTL escape and clinical disease in a murine model of virus persistence |
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Authors: | Kim Taeg S Perlman Stanley |
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Institution: | Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. |
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Abstract: | CTL escape mutations have been identified in several chronic infections, including mice infected with mouse hepatitis virus strain JHM. One outstanding question in understanding CTL escape is whether a CD8 T cell response to two or more immunodominant CTL epitopes would prevent CTL escape. Although CTL escape at multiple epitopes seems intuitively unlikely, CTL escape at multiple CD8 T cell epitopes has been documented in some chronically infected individual animals. To resolve this apparent contradiction, we engineered a recombinant variant of JHM that expressed the well-characterized gp33 epitope of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, an epitope with high functional avidity. The results show that the presence of a host response to this second epitope protected mice against CTL escape at the immunodominant JHM-specific CD8 T cell epitope, the persistence of infectious virus, and the development of clinical disease. |
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