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Charles T Spencer, Getahun Abate, Azra Blazevic, Daniel F Hoft, Mycobacteria Induce Protective Effector Functions in a Subset of Nonprotective Phosphoantigen-reactive γ9δ2 T cells (43.21), The Journal of Immunology, Volume 178, Issue 1_Supplement, April 2007, Page S40, https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.178.Supp.43.21
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Abstract
Human γ9δ2 T cells expand and produce protective cytokine and cytolytic responses during mycobacterial infection. γ9δ2 T cells are also stimulated by nonpeptidic phosphoantigens (i.e-IPP, HMB-PP), expressed by intracellular mycobacteria and infected cells. Therefore, purified phosphoantigens could be useful components of new vaccines or immunotherapeutics by stimulating protective γ9δ2 T cells. However, it is unclear whether γ9δ2 T cells induced by phosphoantigens can protect against mycobacterial replication. We show that while BCG-expanded γ9δ2 T cells potently inhibit intracellular mycobacterial growth, IPP/HMB-PP-expanded γ9δ2 T cells fail to inhibit intracellular mycobacteria, although both lyse Daudi targets. TLR co-stimulation during IPP expansion also failed to induce anti-mycobacterial γ9δ2 T cells. TCR spectratyping and CDR3 sequencing demonstrated that BCG-expanded γ9δ2 T cells expressed significantly less TCR sequence diversity than IPP-expanded γ9δ2 T cells. BCG-expanded γ9δ2 T cells respond similarly to BCG- and IPP-stimulation, while IPP-expanded γ9δ2 T cells responded poorly to BCG. BCG appears to stimulate an antigen-specific focusing event in γ9δ2 T cells while IPP acts like a mitogen with broad γ9δ2 T cell reactivity. The antigens and/or co-stimulatory signals required to induce protective γ9δ2 T cells remain to be identified.
Support: NIH R01-AI-48391, VTEU NO1-AI-25464