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dc.contributor.authorMackay, Laura K.
dc.contributor.authorLong, Heather M.
dc.contributor.authorBrooks, Jill M.
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Graham S.
dc.contributor.authorLeung, Carol S.
dc.contributor.authorChen, Adrienne
dc.contributor.authorWang, Frederick Chi-Shing
dc.contributor.authorRickinson, Alan B.
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-20T21:52:52Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationMackay, Laura K., Heather M. Long, Jill M. Brooks, Graham S. Taylor, Carol S. Leung, Adrienne Chen, Fred Wang, and Alan B. Rickinson. 2009. T cell detection of a B-cell tropic virus infection: Newly-synthesised versus mature viral proteins as antigen sources for CD4 and CD8 epitope display. PLoS Pathogens 5(12): e1000699.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1553-7366en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4728505
dc.description.abstractViruses that naturally infect cells expressing both MHC I and MHC II molecules render themselves potentially visible to both CD8+ and CD4+ T cells through the de novo expression of viral antigens. Here we use one such pathogen, the B-lymphotropic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), to examine the kinetics of these processes in the virally-infected cell, comparing newly synthesised polypeptides versus the mature protein pool as viral antigen sources for MHC I- and MHC II-restricted presentation. EBV-transformed B cell lines were established in which the expression of two cognate EBV antigens, EBNA1 and EBNA3B, could be induced and then completely suppressed by doxycycline-regulation. These cells were used as targets for CD8+ and CD4+ T cell clones to a range of EBNA1 and EBNA3B epitopes. For both antigens, when synthesis was induced, CD8 epitope display rose quickly to near maximum within 24 h, well before steady state levels of mature protein had been reached, whereas CD4 epitope presentation was delayed by 36–48 h and rose only slowly thereafter. When antigen expression was suppressed, despite the persistence of mature protein, CD8 epitope display fell rapidly at rates similar to that seen for the MHC I/epitope half-life in peptide pulse-chase experiments. By contrast, CD4 epitope display persisted for many days and, following peptide stripping, recovered well on cells in the absence of new antigen synthesis. We infer that, in virally-infected MHC I/II-positive cells, newly-synthesised polypeptides are the dominant source of antigen feeding the MHC I pathway, whereas the MHC II pathway is fed by the mature protein pool. Hence, newly-infected cells are rapidly visible only to the CD8 response; by contrast, latent infections, in which viral gene expression has been extinguished yet viral proteins persist, will remain visible to CD4+ T cells.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.isversionofdoi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000699en_US
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788701/pdf/en_US
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dc.titleT Cell Detection of a B-Cell Tropic Virus Infection: Newly-Synthesised versus Mature Viral Proteins as Antigen Sources for CD4 and CD8 Epitope Displayen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.relation.journalPLoS Pathogensen_US
dash.depositing.authorWang, Frederick Chi-Shing
dc.date.available2011-02-20T21:52:52Z
dash.affiliation.otherHMS^Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospitalen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.ppat.1000699*
dash.contributor.affiliatedWang, Frederick


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