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CELL REPORTS
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 760-771Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.12.090
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- Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
- Wellcome Trust [094511/Z/10/Z]
- Medical Research Council UK [MR/L008742/1]
- NIH [HHSN272201300006C]
- Wellcome Trust [094511/Z/10/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- MRC [MR/L008742/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MR/L008742/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Cytotoxic CD8(+) T lymphocytes play a critical role in the host response to infection by viruses. The ability to secrete cytotoxic chemicals and cytokines is considered pivotal for eliminating virus. Of equal importance is how effector CD8(+) T cells home to virus-infected tissues. L-selectin has not been considered important for effector T cell homing, because levels are low on activated T cells. We report here that, although L-selectin expression is down-regulated following T cell priming in lymph nodes, L-selectin is re-expressed on activated CD8(+) T cells entering the bloodstream, and recruitment of activated CD8(+) T cells from the bloodstream into virus-infected tissues is L-selectin dependent. Furthermore, L-selectin on effector CD8(+) T cells confers protective immunity to two evolutionally distinct viruses, vaccinia and influenza, which infect mucosal and visceral organs, respectively. These results connect homing and a function of virus-specific CD8(+) T cells to a single molecule, L-selectin.
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