Massive number of antigen-specific CD4 T cells during vaccination with live attenuated Salmonella causes interclonal competition |
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Authors: | Srinivasan Aparna Foley Joseph McSorley Stephen J |
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Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USA. |
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Abstract: | The clonal burst size of CD4 T cells is predicted to be less than that of CD8 T cells. In this study, we demonstrate that massive numbers of Ag-specific CD4 T cells respond during vaccination of mice with live attenuated Salmonella, reaching a peak frequency of approximately 50% of CD4 T cells. Salmonella-specific T cells persisted at high frequency for several weeks and could be detected in the memory population for months after infection. Surprisingly, the expansion of endogenous Salmonella-specific CD4 T cells prevented the persistence of adoptively transferred Salmonella-specific T cells in vivo, demonstrating interclonal competition for access to the memory compartment. |
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