Circulating anti-Tax cytotoxic T lymphocytes from human T-cell leukemia virus type I-infected people, with and without tropical spastic paraparesis, recognize multiple epitopes simultaneously.

AUTOR(ES)

Parker, C E

RESUMO

CD8+ T cells were freshly isolated from a human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I)-infected patient with tropical spastic paraparesis. These cells, which were specific for HTLV-I Tax, simultaneously recognized a minimum of five, and possibly as many as seven, distinct peptide epitopes within the protein. A further Tax epitope was recognized after a short period of culture without exogenous peptide stimulation. All but one of these epitopes were clustered in the N-terminal third of Tax, and one of the epitopes was clearly immunodominant on two separate occasions of testing. Recognition of the immunodominant epitope was restricted by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B15, and recognition of all the others was by HLA A2. Similar patterns of cytotoxic T lymphocyte recognition of the HLA A2-restricted Tax peptides in two healthy HTLV-I-seropositive individuals, each of whom carried the HLA A2 allele, were observed.

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