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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-6-30
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
It has been generally believed that human CD8+ memory cells are principally found within the CD45ROhigh population. There are high frequencies of CD8+ memory CTL specific for the human CMV tegument phosphoprotein pp65 in PBMC of long-term virus carriers; the large population of memory CTL specific for a given pp65 peptide contains individual CTL clones that have greatly expanded. In this study, we found high frequencies of pp65 peptide-specific memory CTL precursors in the CD45ROhighCD45RA- population, but also appreciable frequencies in the CD45RAhigh subpopulation. Because the majority of CD8+ T cells in PBMC are CD45RAhigh, more of the total pp65-specific memory CTL pool is within the CD45RAhigh than in the CD45ROhigh compartment. Using clonotypic oligonucleotide probes to quantify the size of individual pp65-specific CTL clones in vivo, we found the CD45RAhigh population contributed 6- to 10-fold more than the CD45ROhigh population to the total virus-specific clone size in CD8+ cells. During primary CMV infection, an individual virus-specific CTL clone was initially CD45ROhigh, but after resolution of infection this clone was detected in both the CD45ROhigh and the CD45RAhigh populations. We conclude that CD45RA+ human CD8+ T cells do not solely comprise naive cells, but contain a very significant proportion of memory cells, which can revert from the CD45ROhigh to CD45RAhigh phenotype in vivo.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
162
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7080-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-8-25
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Antigens, CD45, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Carrier State, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Clone Cells, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Cytomegalovirus, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Cytomegalovirus Infections, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Cytotoxicity, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Immunologic Memory, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Leukocytes, Mononuclear, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Longitudinal Studies, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Lymphocyte Activation, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Phosphoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-T-Lymphocyte Subsets, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:10358151-Viral Matrix Proteins
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Human virus-specific CD8+ CTL clones revert from CD45ROhigh to CD45RAhigh in vivo: CD45RAhighCD8+ T cells comprise both naive and memory cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Clinical School, United Kingdom. mrw1004@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't