期刊
MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
卷 204, 期 1, 页码 29-38出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-014-0372-z
关键词
Hepatitis C virus; Hepatitis B virus; Immunotherapy; Exhaustion; PD-1
资金
- NIAID NIH HHS [R37 AI047367] Funding Source: Medline
Over the past two decades, much has been learned about how human viruses evade T cell immunity to establish persistent infection. The lessons are particularly relevant to two hepatotropic viruses, HBV and HCV, that are very significant global public health problems. Although HCV and HBV are very different, the natural history of persistent infections with these viruses in humans shares some common features including failure of T cell immunity. During recent years, large sequence studies of HCV have characterized intra-host evolution as well as sequence diversity between hosts in great detail. Combined with studies of CD8+ T cell phenotype and function, it is now apparent that the T cell response shapes viral evolution. In turn, HCV sequence diversity influences the quality of the CD8+ T cell response and thus infection outcome. Here, we review published studies of CD8+ T cell selection pressure and mutational escape of the virus. Potential consequences for therapeutic strategies to restore T cell immunity against persistent human viruses, most notably HBV, are discussed.
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