ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation1999
Implication of gammadelta T cells in the human immune response to cytomegalovirus.
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- Deciphering the Contribution of γδ T Cells to Outcomes in Transplantation.Transplantation · 2018Pooled it
- Cytotoxic CX3CR1+ Vδ1 T cells clonally expand in an interplay of CMV, microbiota, and HIV-1 persistence in people on antiretroviral therapy.PLoS pathogens · 2025Trial
- Adaptive Natural Killer Cell and Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor-Expressing T Cell Responses are Induced by Cytomegalovirus and Are Associated with Protection against Cytomegalovirus Reactivation after Allogeneic Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · 2015Trial
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- γδ T cells show distinct responses to CMV after stem cell transplantation.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Article
- Oligoclonal expansion of atypical Vδ2Nature communications · 2026Article
- Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors define a potent effector program in human γδ T cells.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Congenital cytomegalovirus infection drives oligoclonal expansion of cytotoxic γδ T cells from early fetal progenitors.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2026Article
- Functional Profile of γδ T Cells in Severe and Moderate COVID-19: A Brazilian Cross-Sectional Study.Cells · 2026Article
- Adoptive γδ T cell therapy controls cytomegalovirus infection in preclinical transplantation models.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Cancer viroimmunotherapy platforms based on varicella-zoster virus and cytomegalovirus.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026Review
- Auguries of adaptivity: LES γδ TCR ligand recognition revisited.Trends in immunology · 2026Review
- "Innovative diagnostics and treatments of infections in transplantation," report from the 2025Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Article
- Phenotypic Remodeling of γδ T Cells in Non-Eosinophilic Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyposis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- The immune response to human cytomegalovirus: impact of age, co-morbidities and the significance of anti-viral activity assessment.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
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- Gamma delta T cells and their immunotherapeutic potential in cancer.Biomarker research · 2025Review
- γδ T Cells' Role in Donor-Specific Antibody Generation: Insights From Transplant Recipients and Experimental Models.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Article
- Cancer immunotherapy by γδ T cells.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Review
- Long-lived central memory γδ T cells confer protection against murine cytomegalovirus reinfection.PLoS pathogens · 2024Article
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Abstract
In normal individuals, gammadelta T cells account for less than 6% of total peripheral T lymphocytes and mainly express T-cell receptor (TCR) Vdelta2-Vgamma9 chains. We have previously observed a dramatic expansion of gammadelta T cells in the peripheral blood of renal allograft recipients only when they developed cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. This increase was long lasting (more than 1 year), was associated with an activation of gammadelta T cells, and concerned only Vdelta1 or Vdelta3 T-cell subpopulations. Analysis of gammadelta TCR junctional diversity revealed that CMV infection in these patients was accompanied by (a) a marked restriction of CDR3 size distribution in Vdelta3 and, to a lesser extent, in Vdelta1 chains; and (b) a selective expansion of Vdelta1 cells bearing recurrent junctional amino acid motifs. These features are highly suggestive of an in vivo antigen-driven selection of gammadelta T-cell subsets during the course of CMV infection. Furthermore, Vdelta1 and Vdelta3 T cells from CMV-infected kidney recipients were able to proliferate in vitro in the presence of free CMV or CMV-infected fibroblast lysates but not uninfected or other herpes virus-infected fibroblast lysates. This in vitro expansion was inhibited by anti-gammadelta TCR mAb's. These findings suggest that a population of gammadelta T cells might play an important role in the immune response of immunosuppressed patients to CMV infection.
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