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CMV establishes a lifelong persistent infection, and viral immune-modulating strategies are important in facilitating this. A particularly diverse CD8 T cell response develops as a result of this host-virus détente, with the CMV-specific memory T cell pool displaying unique functions and phenotypes. To gain insight into the factors that regulate CMV-specific CD8 T cell responses, we examined the influence of the B7-CD28 costimulatory pathway on magnitude, kinetics, and phenotype. Initial expansion of mouse CMV-specific CD8 T cells that establish stable memory pools was severely lower in mice lacking B7-CD28 signaling, and the resulting memory levels also remained reduced during persistent/latent infection. In contrast, expansion of CD8 T cells that undergo memory inflation during chronic infection was less affected in the absence of B7-CD28 costimulatory signals, eventually reaching the levels seen in wild-type mice at later times. Regardless of their differential requirements for B7-CD28 signals, both stable and inflationary memory T cell populations showed normal cytotoxic capacity. These results reveal that B7-CD28 costimulation differentially regulates the magnitude and kinetics of the multifaceted CD8 T cell response that develops during CMV infection.

Original publication

DOI

10.4049/jimmunol.1003231

Type

Journal article

Journal

J Immunol

Publication Date

01/04/2011

Volume

186

Pages

3874 - 3881

Keywords

Adaptive Immunity, Animals, B7-1 Antigen, B7-2 Antigen, CD28 Antigens, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Cell Differentiation, Cytotoxicity, Immunologic, Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte, Herpesviridae Infections, Immunologic Memory, Lymphopenia, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Mice, Transgenic, Muromegalovirus, Signal Transduction