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VIRAL IMMUNOLOGY
卷 20, 期 2, 页码 276-287出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/vim.2006.0096
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Reports have shown that a negative T cell costimulatory pathway mediated by PD-1 ( programmed death-1) and PDL-1 ( programmed death ligand-1) is associated with T cell exhaustion and persistent viral infection. Persistent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in humans is also characterized by impaired T lymphocyte function, but the role of the PD-1 and PDL-1 pathway in HCV infection is unknown. Here we report that T cells isolated from chronically HCV-infected patients express significantly higher levels of PD-1 when compared with healthy donors. In addition, PD-1 and PDL-1 expression is upregulated on healthy donor T cells exposed to HCV core, a nucleocapsid protein that is immunosuppressive; upregulation of PD-1 is mediated through interaction of HCV core with the complement receptor, gC1qR. Importantly, T cell functions that are dysregulated by HCV core, including T cell activation, proliferation, and apoptosis, can be restored by blocking PD-1 and PDL-1 engagement. Our results indicate that HCV core can upregulate a key negative T cell signaling pathway associated with viral persistence and highly expressed on the T cells of persistently infected individuals. This upregulation of the PD-1 and PDL-1 pathway in humans represents a novel and perhaps common mechanism by which a virus usurps host machinery to facilitate persistence.
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