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PLOS ONE
卷 10, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140545
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [W1212] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is a human-pathogenic flavivirus that is endemic in large parts of Europe and Asia and causes severe neuroinvasive illness. A formalin-inactivated vaccine induces strong neutralizing antibody responses and confers protection from TBE disease. CD4(+) T cell responses are essential for neutralizing antibody production, but data on the functionalities of TBEV-specific CD4(+) T cells in response to vaccination or infection are lacking. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the cytokine patterns of CD4(+) T cell responses in 20 humans after TBE vaccination in comparison to those in 18 patients with TBEV infection. Specifically, Th1-specific cytokines (IFN-gamma, IL-2, TNF-alpha), CD40 ligand and the Th1 lineage-specifying transcription factor Tbet were determined upon stimulation with peptides covering the TBEV structural proteins contained in the vaccine (C-capsid, prM/M-membrane and E-envelope). We show that TBEV-specific CD4(+) T cell responses are polyfunctional, but the cytokine patterns after vaccination differed from those after infection. TBE vaccine responses were characterized by lower IFN-gamma responses and high proportions of TNF-alpha+IL-2(+) cells. In vaccine-induced responses-consistent with the reduced IFN-gamma expression patterns-less than 50% of TBEV peptides were detected by IFN-gamma(+) cells as compared to 96% detected by IL-2(+) cells, indicating that the single use of IFN-gamma as a read-out strongly underestimates the magnitude and breadth of such responses. The results provide important insights into the functionalities of CD4(+) T cells that coordinate vaccine responses and have direct implications for future studies that address epitope specificity and breadth of these responses.
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