Cytotoxic T lymphocyte activity and cytokine expression in calves vaccinated with formalin-inactivated bovine respiratory syncytial virus prior to challenge

Author(s):  
Amelia R Woolums ◽  
Robert A Gunther ◽  
Kerrie McArthur-Vaughan ◽  
Mark L Anderson ◽  
Amanda Omlor ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 85 (11) ◽  
pp. 3229-3238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Johnstone ◽  
Patricia de León ◽  
Francisco Medina ◽  
José A. Melero ◽  
Blanca García-Barreno ◽  
...  

Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of respiratory infection in children and in the elderly. The RSV fusion (F) glycoprotein has long been recognized as a vaccine candidate as it elicits cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) and antibody responses. Two murine H-2Kd-restricted CTL epitopes (F85–93 and F92–106) are known in the F protein of the A2 strain of RSV. F-specific CTL lines using BCH4 fibroblasts that are persistently infected with the Long strain of human RSV as stimulators were generated, and it was found that in this strain only the F85–93 epitope is conserved. Motif based epitope prediction programs and an F2 chain deleted F protein encoded in a recombinant vaccinia virus enabled identification of a new epitope in the Long strain, F249–258, which is presented by Kd as a 9-mer (TYMLTNSEL) or a 10-mer (TYMLTNSELL) peptide. The results suggest that the 10-mer might be a naturally processed endogenous Kd ligand. The CD8+ T-lymphocyte responses to epitopes F85–93 and F249–258 present in the F protein of RSV Long were found to be strongly skewed to F85–93 in in vitro multispecific CTL lines and in vivo during a secondary response to a recombinant vaccinia virus that expresses the entire F protein. However, no hierarchy in CD8+ T-lymphocyte responses to F85–93 and F249–258 epitopes was observed in vivo during a primary response.


1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renu Gupta ◽  
Jonathan W. Yewdell ◽  
Robert A. Olmsted ◽  
Peter L. Collins ◽  
Jack R. Bennink

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (16) ◽  
pp. 7694-7697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. R. Goulder ◽  
Franziska Lechner ◽  
Paul Klenerman ◽  
Kenneth McIntosh ◽  
Bruce D. Walker

ABSTRACT Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is a major cause of morbidity in childhood worldwide. The first human RSV-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitope to be defined is described. This HLA B7-restricted epitope in nucleoprotein (NP) was detectable in four healthy, B7-positive adult subjects using B7-RSV-NP tetrameric complexes to stain CD8+ T cells.


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