Functional plasticity of an antigen-specific memory CD4 T cell population

AUTOR(ES)

Ahmadzadeh, Mojgan

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The protective nature of memory immune responses is attributed largely to terminally differentiated memory T cells that retain memory of the antigen via the antigen receptor and memory of the effector functions that initially cleared the pathogen. It is not known whether a given population of antigen-specific memory T cells is endowed with functional flexibility to provide protective responses against antigens reencountered in different immunological contexts. Here, we examine functional properties of influenza hemagglutinin (HA)-specific memory CD4 T cells recovered from adoptive hosts that received in vitro-activated HA-specific T cell receptor-transgenic CD4 T cells 2 months to 1 year previously. We demonstrate that this HA-specific memory CD4 T cell population bearing a clonal T cell receptor can produce predominantly T helper 1 or T helper 2 effector cytokines depending on the nature of the recall stimulus. Our findings reveal remarkable functional plasticity within an antigen-specific memory T cell population and have direct implications for modulating memory T cell function in vaccine design and treatments for autoimmune diseases.

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