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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013

Ecological analysis of antigen-specific CTL repertoires defines the relationship between naive and immune T-cell populations.

Paul G Thomas, Andreas Handel, Peter C Doherty, Nicole L La Gruta

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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4 authors.

Paul G ThomasDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Andreas Handel
Peter C Doherty
Nicole L La Gruta

Funding

Protective Cell-Mediated Immunity Against Lethal H5N1 Influenza A VirusesR01AI070251 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI DOHERTY, PETER C · 2006 to 2010
$2.0M
Quantitative studies of CD8 T-cell dynamicsK25AI072193 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI HANDEL, ANDREAS · 2007 to 2011
$359k
Immunodominance hierarchies and compensation in influenza specific CD8+ T cell reK22AI077714 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI THOMAS, PAUL G. · 2009 to 2010
$270k
Antigen-specific CD4+ T cell responses to influenzaF32AI065097 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI THOMAS, PAUL GLYNDWR · 2005 to 2007
$143k
NIAID NIH HHS AI065097NIAID NIH HHS AI072193NIAID NIH HHS AI077714NIAID NIH HHS AI70251NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI065097NIAID NIH HHS K22 AI077714NIAID NIH HHS K25 AI072193NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI070251
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ecology is typically thought of as the study of interactions organisms have with each other and their environment and is focused on the distribution and abundance of organisms both within and between environments. On a molecular level, the capacity to probe analogous questions in the field of T-cell immunology is imperative as we acquire substantial datasets both on epitope-specific T-cell populations through high-resolution analyses of T-cell receptor (TCR) use and on global T-cell populations analyzed via high-throughput DNA sequencing. Here, we present the innovative application of existing statistical measures (used typically in the field of ecology), together with unique statistical analyses, to comprehensively assess how the naïve epitope-specific CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) repertoire translates to that found following an influenza-virus-specific immune response. Such interrogation of our extensive, cumulated TCR CDR3β sequence datasets, derived from both naïve and immune CD8(+) T-cell populations specific for four different influenza-derived epitopes (D(b)NP(366), influenza nucleoprotein amino acid residues 366-374; D(b)PA(224), influenza acid polymerase amino acid residues 224-233; D(b)PB1-F2(62), influenza polymerase B 1 reading frame 2 amino acid residues 62-70; K(b)NS2(114), and influenza nonstructural protein 2 amino acid residues 114-121), demonstrates that epitope-specific TCR use in an antiviral immune response is the consequence of a complex interplay between the intrinsic characteristics of the naïve cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursor pool and extrinsic (likely antigen driven) influences, the contribution of which varies in an epitope-specific fashion.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsAntigensAntigens, ViralBase SequenceCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesClonal Selection, Antigen-MediatedComplementarity Determining RegionsEpitopes, T-LymphocyteInfluenza A virusMiceModels, ImmunologicalNucleoproteinsOrthomyxoviridae InfectionsPeptidesProteinsAntigensAntigens, ViralComplementarity Determining RegionsEpitopes, T-LymphocyteNucleoproteinsPeptidesProteinsReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID23319654
PMCPMC3562793

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