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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 195, Issue 4, Pages 1676-1684Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1500872
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- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [BFU2005-04622, SAF2010-22153-C03]
- FundacioLa Marato TV3 [121531]
- Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria [PI11/00298]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad Grant [SAF2010-22153-C03]
- Fundacio La Marato TV3 Grant [121531]
- Asociacion Espanola Contra el Cancer Foundation
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HSV-1 latently infects most humans, causing a variable clinical picture that depends, in part, on host genetic factors. Both IgG and its cellular FcRs, CD16A and CD32A-C (encoded by FCGR3A and FCGR2A-C, respectively, on chromosome 1), display polymorphisms that could affect their defensive function. Of potential relevance are a FCGR3A dimorphism resulting in CD16A-valine/phenylalanine-158 allotypes with different IgG affinity, variations conditioning NK cell expression of CD32B or CD32C, and IgG1 H chain (IGHG1) and kappa-chain (IGKC) polymorphisms determining allotypes designated G1m and Km. In this study, we assessed the contribution of Ig genetic variations and their interaction with FcR polymorphism to HSV-1 susceptibility, as well as their impact on NK cell-mediated Ab-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC). Our results show an epistatic interaction between IGHG1 and FCGR3A such that the higher affinity CD16A-158V/V genotype associates with an asymptomatic course of HSV-1 infection only in homozygotes for G1m3. Furthermore, CD16A-158V and G1m3 allotypes enhanced ADCC against opsonized HSV-1-infected fibroblasts. Conversely, Km allotypes and CD32B or CD32C expression on NK cells did not significantly influence HSV-1 susceptibility or ADCC. NK cells degranulating against immune serum-opsonized HSV-1-infected fibroblasts had heterogeneous phenotypes. Yet, enhanced ADCC was observed among NK cells showing a differentiated, memory-like phenotype (NKG2C(bright)NKG2A-CD57(+) FcR gamma(-)), which expand in response to human CMV. These results extend our knowledge on the importance of immunogenetic polymorphisms and NK cell-Ab interplay in the host response against HSV-1 and point to the relevance of interactions between immune responses elicited during chronic coinfection by multiple herpesviruses.
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