Genetically engineered probiotic Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains mature human dendritic cells and stimulate Gag-specific memory CD8+ T cells ex vivo

2019 ◽  
Vol 103 (13) ◽  
pp. 5183-5192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana L. Palma ◽  
Tatiana M. Garcia-Bates ◽  
Flaviano S. Martins ◽  
Bruno Douradinha
2000 ◽  
Vol 165 (3) ◽  
pp. 1182-1190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Larsson ◽  
Davorka Messmer ◽  
Selin Somersan ◽  
Jean-François Fonteneau ◽  
Sean M. Donahoe ◽  
...  

Blood ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 112 (12) ◽  
pp. 4546-4554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer W. Stonier ◽  
Lisa J. Ma ◽  
Eliseo F. Castillo ◽  
Kimberly S. Schluns

AbstractInterleukin-15 (IL-15) is crucial for the development of naive and memory CD8 T cells and is delivered through a mechanism called transpresentation. Previous studies showed that memory CD8 T cells require IL-15 transpresentation by an as yet unknown cell of hematopoietic origin. We hypothesized that dendritic cells (DCs) transpresent IL-15 to CD8 T cells, and we examined this by developing a transgenic model that limits IL-15 transpresentation to DCs. In this study, IL-15 transpresentation by DCs had little effect on restoring naive CD8 T cells but contributed to the development of memory-phenotype CD8 T cells. The generation of virus-specific, memory CD8 T cells was partially supported by IL-15Rα+ DCs through the preferential enhancement of a subset of KLRG-1+CD27− CD8 T cells. In contrast, these DCs were largely sufficient in driving normal homeostatic proliferation of established memory CD8 T cells, suggesting that memory CD8 T cells grow more dependent on IL-15 transpresentation by DCs. Overall, our study clearly supports a role for DCs in memory CD8 T-cell homeostasis but also provides evidence that other hematopoietic cells are involved in this function. The identification of DCs fulfilling this role will enable future studies to better focus on mechanisms regulating T-cell homeostasis.


Author(s):  
Isabel Schulien ◽  
Janine Kemming ◽  
Valerie Oberhardt ◽  
Katharina Wild ◽  
Lea M. Seidel ◽  
...  

AbstractCD8+ T cells are critical for the elimination and long-lasting protection of many viral infections, but their role in the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is unclear. Emerging data indicates that SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells are detectable in the majority of individuals recovering from SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, optimal virus-specific epitopes, the role of pre-existing heterologous immunity as well as their kinetics and differentiation program during disease control have not been defined in detail. Here, we show that both pre-existing and newly induced SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T-cell responses are potentially important determinants of immune protection in mild SARS-CoV-2 infection. In particular, our results can be summarized as follows: First, immunodominant SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T-cell epitopes are targeted in the majority of individuals with convalescent SARS-CoV-2 infection. Second, MHC class I tetramer analyses revealed the emergence of phenotypically diverse and functionally competent pre-existing and newly induced SARS-CoV-2-specific memory CD8+ T cells that showed similar characteristics compared to influenza-specific CD8+ T cells. Third, SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T-cell responses are more robustly detectable than antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2-spike protein. This was confirmed in a longitudinal analysis of acute-resolving infection that demonstrated rapid induction of the SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells within a week followed by a prolonged contraction phase that outlasted the waning humoral immune response indicating that CD8+ T-cell responses might serve as a more precise correlate of antiviral immunity than antibody measurements after convalescence. Collectively, these data provide new insights into the fine specificity, heterogeneity, and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2-specific memory CD8+ T cells, potentially informing the rational development of a protective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.


Blood ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (18) ◽  
pp. 4273-4280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su Jeong Ryu ◽  
Kyung Min Jung ◽  
Hyun Seung Yoo ◽  
Tae Woo Kim ◽  
Sol Kim ◽  
...  

AbstractIn contrast to previous notions of the help-independency of memory CD8 T cells during secondary expansion, here we show that CD4 help is indispensable for the re-expansion of once-helped memory CD8 T cells, using a hematopoietic cell–specific dominant minor histocompatibility (H) antigen, H60, as a model antigen. H60-specific memory CD8 T cells generated during a helped primary response vigorously expanded only when rechallenged under helped conditions. The help requirement for an optimal secondary response was confirmed by a reduction in peak size by CD4 depletion, and was reproduced after skin transplantation. Helpless conditions or noncognate separate help during the secondary response resulted in a significant reduction in the peak size and different response kinetics. Providing CD4 help again during a tertiary challenge restored robust memory expansion; however, the repeated deprivation of help further reduced clonal expansion. Adoptively transferred memory CD8 T cells did not proliferate in CD40L−/− hosts. In the CD40−/− hosts, marginal memory expansion was detected after priming with male H60 cells but was completely abolished by priming with peptide-loaded CD40−/− cells, suggesting the essential role of CD40 and CD40L in memory responses. These results provide insight into the control of minor H antigen-specific CD8 T-cell responses, to maximize the graft-versus-leukemia response.


Oncotarget ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (62) ◽  
pp. 32024-32035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marit Sponaas ◽  
Rui Yang ◽  
Even Holth Rustad ◽  
Therese Standal ◽  
Aud Solvang Thoresen ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liane Daudt ◽  
Rita Maccario ◽  
Franco Locatelli ◽  
Ilaria Turin ◽  
Lucia Silla ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Solano-Gálvez ◽  
Sonia Tovar-Torres ◽  
María Tron-Gómez ◽  
Ariane Weiser-Smeke ◽  
Diego Álvarez-Hernández ◽  
...  

Dendritic cells (DCs) are a type of cells derived from bone marrow that represent 1% or less of the total hematopoietic cells of any lymphoid organ or of the total cell count of the blood or epithelia. Dendritic cells comprise a heterogeneous population of cells localized in different tissues where they act as sentinels continuously capturing antigens to present them to T cells. Dendritic cells are uniquely capable of attracting and activating naïve CD4+ and CD8+ T cells to initiate and modulate primary immune responses. They have the ability to coordinate tolerance or immunity depending on their activation status, which is why they are also considered as the orchestrating cells of the immune response. The purpose of this review is to provide a general overview of the current knowledge on ontogeny and subsets of human dendritic cells as well as their function and different biological roles.


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