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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 184, Issue 5, Pages 2243-2246Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0903013
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [BE 3285-1/2]
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
- Australian Research Council
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Despite its potential for involvement in viral immunity, little evidence links TLR3 to adaptive antiviral responses. Here we show that TLR3 is required for the generation of CD8 T cell immunity to HSV-1. The magnitude of the gB-specific CD8 T cell response after flank infection by HSV-1 was significantly reduced in mice lacking TIR domain-containing adaptor-inducing IFN-beta or TLR3, but not MyD88. Impaired CTL induction was evident in chimeric mice lacking TLR3 in bone marrow (BM)-derived cells. Among the dendritic cell subsets, TLR3 was expressed by CD8 alpha(+) dendritic cells, known to be involved in priming HSV-1-specific CD8 T cells. Use of mixed BM chimeras revealed that TLR3 and the MHC class I-restriction element must be expressed by the same BM-derived cell for effective priming. These data imply that a cognate linkage between TLR3 and MHC class I is required for efficient CTL priming to HSV-1. The Journal of Immunology, 2010, 184: 2243-2246.
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