Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22461689›Full record

Trial reportJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2012

CD4+CD8+ T cells represent a significant portion of the anti-HIV T cell response to acute HIV infection.

Marc A Frahm, Ralph A Picking, JoAnn D Kuruc, Kara S McGee, Cynthia L Gay, Joseph J Eron, Charles B Hicks, Georgia D Tomaras, Guido Ferrari

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Double Positive CD4Frontiers in immunology · 2019
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  2. Characterization of circulating CD4International journal of hematology · 2017
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  3. The double-positive cells in the tumor microenvironment.Journal of translational internal medicine · 2026
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  4. CD4Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  8. Legend or Truth: Mature CD4Biomedicines · 2023
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  9. Double Positive CD4Cells · 2023
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  13. Peripheral CD4Journal of biomedical research · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Marc A FrahmCenter for AIDS Research, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 22710, USA.
Ralph A Picking
JoAnn D Kuruc
Kara S McGee
Cynthia L Gay
Joseph J Eron
Charles B Hicks
Georgia D Tomaras
Guido Ferrari
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USDuke Medical Center · USDuke University · USDuke University Hospital · US

Funding

Virology, Immunology, and Microbiology CoreP30AI050410 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DAVID M. MARGOLIS · 2001 to 2026
$76.9M
Social and Behavioral Sciences CoreP30AI064518 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Nwora Lance Okeke · 2005 to 2026
$50.5M
Poly-functional analyses of vaccine-induced T cell responsesR01AI050483 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI FERRARI, GUIDO · 2001 to 2010
$3.5M
NIAID NIH HHS 2P30 AI064518NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI050410NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI064518NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI050483NIAID NIH HHS R01AI050483NIAID NIH HHS R01AI052279
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies have revealed that HIV-infected individuals possess circulating CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive (DP) T cells specific for HIV Ags. In the present study, we analyzed the proliferation and functional profile of circulating DP T cells from 30 acutely HIV-infected individuals and 10 chronically HIV-infected viral controllers. The acutely infected group had DP T cells that showed more proliferative capability and multifunctionality than did both their CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. DP T cells were found to exhibit greater proliferation and higher multifunctionality compared with CD4 T cells in the viral controller group. The DP T cell response represented 16% of the total anti-HIV proliferative response and >70% of the anti-HIV multifunctional response in the acutely infected subjects. Proliferating DP T cells of the acutely infected subjects responded to all HIV Ag pools with equal magnitude. Conversely, the multifunctional response was focused on the pool representing Nef, Rev, Tat, VPR, and VPU. Meanwhile, the controllers' DP T cells focused on Gag and the Nef, Rev, Tat, VPR, and VPU pool for both their proliferative and multifunctional responses. Finally, we show that the presence of proliferating DP T cells following all HIV Ag stimulations is well correlated with proliferating CD4 T cells whereas multifunctionality appears to be largely independent of multifunctionality in other T cell compartments. Therefore, DP T cells represent a highly reactive cell population during acute HIV infection, which responds independently from the traditional T cell compartments.

Indexed as

Antigens, ViralCD4 AntigensCD8 AntigensCell ProliferationFemaleHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansMaleT-LymphocytesAntigens, ViralCD4 AntigensCD8 Antigens

Identifiers

PMID22461689
PMCPMC3692005
OpenAlexW1939455152

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