ArticlePloS one2013
Reduced interleukin-4 receptor α expression on CD8+ T cells correlates with higher quality anti-viral immunity.
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- Sex differences and immune correlates of Long Covid development, symptom persistence, and resolution.Science translational medicine · 2024Article
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- Mining the potential therapeutic targets for COVID-19 infection in patients with severe burn injuries via bioinformatics analysis.International wound journal · 2023Article
- COVID-19 vaccination in patients receiving allergen immunotherapy (AIT) or biologicals-EAACI recommendations.Allergy · 2022Article
- Multimodal profiling of lung granulomas in macaques reveals cellular correlates of tuberculosis control.Immunity · 2022Article
- Human CD4 T Cells From Thymus and Cord Blood Are Convertible Into CD8 T Cells by IL-4.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- Reinventing the human tuberculosis (TB) granuloma: Learning from the cancer field.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
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- TCR Dependent Metabolic Programming Regulates Autocrine IL-4 Production Resulting in Self-Tuning of the CD8Frontiers in immunology · 2020Article
- Vaccination route can significantly alter the innate lymphoid cell subsets: a feedback between IL-13 and IFN-γ.NPJ vaccines · 2018Article
- Human ADMC-Derived Adipocyte Thermogenic Capacity Is Regulated by IL-4 Receptor.Stem cells international · 2017Article
- IL-4 sensitivity shapes the peripheral CD8+ T cell pool and response to infection.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2016Article
- Role of anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-4 and IL-13 in systemic sclerosis.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2015Review
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- IL-4: an important cytokine in determining the fate of T cells.Biophysical reviews · 2014Review
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Abstract
With the hope of understanding how interleukin (IL)-4 and IL-13 modulated quality of anti-viral CD8(+) T cells, we evaluated the expression of receptors for these cytokines following a range of viral infections (e.g. pox viruses and influenza virus). Results clearly indicated that unlike other IL-4/IL-13 receptor subunits, IL-4 receptor α (IL-4Rα) was significantly down-regulated on anti-viral CD8(+) T cells in a cognate antigen dependent manner. The infection of gene knockout mice and wild-type (WT) mice with vaccinia virus (VV) or VV expressing IL-4 confirmed that IL-4, IL-13 and signal transducer and activator of transcription 6 (STAT6) were required to increase IL-4Rα expression on CD8(+) T cells, but not interferon (IFN)-γ. STAT6 dependent elevation of IL-4Rα expression on CD8(+) T cells was a feature of poor quality anti-viral CD8(+) T cell immunity as measured by the production of IFN-γ and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) in response to VV antigen stimulation in vitro. We propose that down-regulation of IL-4Rα, but not the other IL-4/IL-13 receptor subunits, is a mechanism by which CD8(+) T cells reduce responsiveness to IL-4 and IL-13. This can improve the quality of anti-viral CD8(+) T cell immunity. Our findings have important implications in understanding anti-viral CD8(+) T cell immunity and designing effective vaccines against chronic viral infections.
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