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Major expansion of CD8+ T cells with a predominant Vβ usage during the primary immune response to HIV

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A SIGNIFICANT proportion (up to 70%) of individuals experience an acute clinical syndrome of varying severity associated with primary infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)1–4. We report here studies on six individuals who showed an acute HIV syndrome which generally resolved within four weeks, concomitant with a dramatic downregulation of viraemia2–5. To characterize the T-cell-mediated primary immune response to HIV, we used combined semiquantitative polymerase chain reaction assay and cytofluorometry to analyse the T-cell antigen receptor repertoire in sequential peripheral blood mononuclear cells from the patients. We found major oligoclonal expansions in a restricted set of variable-domain β-chain (Vβ) families. Cells expressing the expanded Vβs predominantly expressed the CDS T-cell differentiation antigen and mediated HlV-specific cytotoxicity. Major oligoclonal expansions of these CD8+ T lymphocytes may represent an important component of the primary immune response to viral infections and may help to clarify both the immunopathogenic and the protective mechanisms of HIV infection.

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  1. Michael S. Saag: Infectious Diseases

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  1. Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, USA

    Giuseppe Pantaleo, James F. Demarest, Cecilia Graziosi & Anthony S. Fauci

  2. Laboratory of Immunology, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, Montreal, PQ H2W 1R7, Canada

    Hugo Soudeyns, François Denis & Rafick P. Sekalytt

  3. Program Resources Incorporated/Dyncorp, Frederick, Maryland, 21702, USA

    Joseph W. Adelsberger

  4. Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, USA

    George M. Shaw

  5. Department of Neuropharmacology, Division of Virology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, 92037, USA

    Persephone Borrow

  6. Department de Microbiologie et d'lmmunologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, H3C3J7, Canada

    Rafick P. Sekalytt

  7. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada

    Hugo Soudeyns & Rafick P. Sekalytt

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Pantaleo, G., Demarest, J., Soudeyns, H. et al. Major expansion of CD8+ T cells with a predominant Vβ usage during the primary immune response to HIV. Nature 370, 463–467 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/370463a0

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