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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Role of PD-1 during effector CD8 T cell differentiation.

Eunseon Ahn, Koichi Araki, Masao Hashimoto, Weiyan Li, James L Riley, Jeanne Cheung, Arlene H Sharpe, Gordon J Freeman, Bryan A Irving, Rafi Ahmed

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 319 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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319citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
16.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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319 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 467 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Eunseon AhnEmory Vaccine Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Koichi ArakiEmory Vaccine Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Masao HashimotoEmory Vaccine Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Weiyan LiEmory Vaccine Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.
James L RileyDepartment of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Jeanne CheungDepartment of Cancer Immunology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080.
Arlene H SharpeDepartment of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Gordon J FreemanDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215.
Bryan A IrvingDepartment of Cancer Immunology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080.
Rafi AhmedEmory Vaccine Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322; rahmed@emory.edu.
Emory University · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USHarvard University · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Transgenic/KnockoutP01AI056299 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI SHARPE, ARLENE H. · 2003 to 2023
$42.5M
T CELL MEMORY TO VIRUSESR01AI030048 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI AHMED, RAFI · 1990 to 2022
$5.2M
Translational Regulation of CD8 T-Cell Immunity - Transfer of R01AI139675 from EmoryR01AI139675 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI ARAKI, KOICHI · 2018 to 2022
$2.3M
NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI056299NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI030048NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI139675
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PD-1 (programmed cell death-1) is the central inhibitory receptor regulating CD8 T cell exhaustion during chronic viral infection and cancer. Interestingly, PD-1 is also expressed transiently by activated CD8 T cells during acute viral infection, but the role of PD-1 in modulating T cell effector differentiation and function is not well defined. To address this question, we examined the expression kinetics and role of PD-1 during acute lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infection of mice. PD-1 was rapidly up-regulated in vivo upon activation of naive virus-specific CD8 T cells within 24 h after LCMV infection and in less than 4 h after peptide injection, well before any cell division had occurred. This rapid PD-1 expression by CD8 T cells was driven predominantly by antigen receptor signaling since infection with a LCMV strain with a mutation in the CD8 T cell epitope did not result in the increase of PD-1 on antigen-specific CD8 T cells. Blockade of the PD-1 pathway using anti-PD-L1 or anti-PD-1 antibodies during the early phase of acute LCMV infection increased mTOR signaling and granzyme B expression in virus-specific CD8 T cells and resulted in faster clearance of the infection. These results show that PD-1 plays an inhibitory role during the naive-to-effector CD8 T cell transition and that the PD-1 pathway can also be modulated at this stage of T cell differentiation. These findings have implications for developing therapeutic vaccination strategies in combination with PD-1 blockade.

Indexed as

Lymphocyte ActivationAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationFemaleLymphocytic ChoriomeningitisLymphocytic choriomeningitis virusMiceProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorReceptors, Antigen, T-CellPdcd1 protein, mouseProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorReceptors, Antigen, T-CellCD8 T cellseffector differentiationmemory cellsPD-1viral infection

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PMID29654146
PMCPMC5939075
OpenAlexW2797410539

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