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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 185, Issue 10, Pages 5935-5942Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1002236
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- Public Health Service [AI043203]
- University of California AIDS Institute
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TCRs mediate CTL specificity, but TCRs recognizing the same epitope often differ between persons due to their stochastic derivation. The role of this variability in the pathogenesis of virus infections and malignancies has been technically difficult to study. We apply an adaptation of TCR spectratyping to study HIV-specific CTLs, defining the clonal breadth and sequences of epitopespecific TCRs from PBMCs without cellular sorting or molecular cloning. Examining 48 CTL responses in 12 persons reveals a mean of 4.5 +/- 2.7 clones per response, of both public and private clonotypes. The number of identified epitope-specific TCRs correlates with CTL frequency across epitopes, suggesting that clonal breadth limits the magnitude of the CTL response against HIV-1 in vivo. HLA A- and B-restricted CTLs are similar in their TCR breadth in this small cohort, preliminarily suggesting that qualitative differences may account for their disparate impacts on pathogenesis. Overall, these findings demonstrate that the magnitude of the CTL response in chronic HIV-1 infection is constrained by TCR clonal breadth, suggesting maximal expansion of CTLs in response to chronic antigenic stimulation. The Journal of Immunology, 2010, 185: 5935-5942.
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