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IMMUNITY
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 258-270Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2007.12.016
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The initiation of cytotoxic immune responses requires the direct interaction between naive CD8(+) T lymphocytes and dendritic cells (DCs). Multiphoton imaging in intact lymph nodes (LNs) showed that during priming, naive T cells and DCs establish sequentially brief (i.e., minutes) and long (hours) antigen-specific contacts. We show here that the expression of the Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 (ICAM-1) by mature DCs is critical for long-lasting contacts with CD8(+) T cells but dispensable for short-lived antigen-specific interactions. Serial brief DC-T cell contacts induced early CD8(+) T cell activation, proliferation, and differentiation into effector cytotoxic T lymphocytes in the first few days after immunization. ICAM-1-deficient mature DCs, however, failed to induce fully effective priming, because CD8(+) T cells produced reduced amounts of interferon gamma and were clonally depleted after 2 weeks. In addition, Icam1(-/-) micefailed to respond to rechallenge. We conclude that ICAM-1 dependent long-lasting interactions between mature DCs and naive CD8(+) T cells determine the survival of activated CD8(+) T cells and the establishment of effective memory.
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