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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-5-1
pubmed:abstractText
Antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells with cytotoxic activity are often critical in immune responses to infectious pathogens. To determine whether gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) expression is a surrogate marker for cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), human cytomegalovirus-specific CTL responses were correlated with CD8(+) T-cell IFN-gamma expression determined by cytokine flow cytometry. A strong positive correlation was observed between specific lysis of peptide-pulsed targets in a (51)Cr release assay and frequencies of peptide-activated CD8(+) T cells expressing IFN-gamma at 6 h (r(2) = 0.72) or 7 days (r(2) = 0.91). Enumeration of responding cells expressing perforin, another marker associated with CTL, did not improve this correlation. These results demonstrate that IFN-gamma expression can be a functional surrogate for identification of CTL precursor cells.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1071-412X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
628-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Gamma interferon expression in CD8(+) T cells is a marker for circulating cytotoxic T lymphocytes that recognize an HLA A2-restricted epitope of human cytomegalovirus phosphoprotein pp65.
pubmed:affiliation
BD Biosciences, Immunocytometry Systems, San Jose, California 95131, USA. smita_ghanekar@bdis.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article