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CELLULAR IMMUNOLOGY
卷 311, 期 -, 页码 36-45出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2016.10.002
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B and T lymphocyte attenuator; Chronic virus infection; Hepatitis B virus; Regulatory CD8(+) T cells
Similar to programmed death-1 (PD-1), B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) is a co-inhibitory molecule of the CD28 family. PD-1 is involved in T cell exhaustion during chronic viral infection. However, the role of BTLA in virus-specific T cells is poorly defined. Here we investigated the expression and function of BTLA in T cells from patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The phenotype of peripheral and intrahepatic HBV-specific T cells from 43 patients with chronic HBV infection was assessed by flow cytometry. Functional evaluation was analyzed by T cell expansion and cytokine secretion after different treatments. In chronic HBV patients, a subset of inefficient interferon-gamma producing antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells recruited to the liver expressed high BTLA levels. The BTLA(+)HBV-specific CD8(+) T cell suppressive function was antigen-specific, at least in the induction phase, because they were only activated by a pool of HBV peptides but not with a pool of unrelated peptides. Suppression of T cell responses was restored by a BTLA signaling blockade and neutralizing IL-10, indicating that BTLA signaling-mediated IL-10 secretion plays a key role in suppression. This study provides important evidence that there is a subset of liver infiltrated virus-specific CD8(+)BTLA(+) regulatory T cells in patients with chronic HBV infection. This subset of cells plays a pivotal role in controlling hepatic effector CD8(+) T cell responses through BTLA signaling mediated regulatory factor IL-10 production. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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