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Aki Hoji1, Nancy C Connolly, William G Buchanan

  • 1Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology : CVI
|November 3, 2006
PubMed

The failure of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific CD8+ T cells to control chronic HIV-1 infection could be due to the progressive loss of their capacities to undergo normal memory effector differentiation. We characterized and compared the expressions of CD27, CD28, CD57, and CD62L by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-, cytomegalovirus (CMV)-, and HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells by six-color, eight-parameter flow cytometry. In contrast to the maturation of EBV- and CMV-specific memory CD8+ T cells, we found that HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells did not display coordinated down-regulation of CD27 and up-regulation of CD57 and accumulated in an atypical CD27(high) CD57(low) subset. Moreover, the accumulation of CD27(high) CD57(low) HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells was positively correlated with HIV-1 plasma viremia. The differentiation of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells to an effector subset is therefore impaired during chronic HIV-1 infection. This lack of normal CD8+ T-cell differentiation could contribute to the failure of cellular immune control of HIV-1 infection.

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