Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Clonally diverse CD38+HLA-DR+CD8+ T cells persist during fatal H7N9 disease

  • Zhongfang Wang,
  • Lingyan Zhu,
  • Thi H. O. Nguyen,
  • Yanmin Wan,
  • Sneha Sant,
  • Sergio M. Quiñones-Parra,
  • Jeremy Chase Crawford,
  • Auda A. Eltahla,
  • Simone Rizzetto,
  • Rowena A. Bull,
  • Chenli Qiu,
  • Marios Koutsakos,
  • E. Bridie Clemens,
  • Liyen Loh,
  • Tianyue Chen,
  • Lu Liu,
  • Pengxing Cao,
  • Yanqin Ren,
  • Lukasz Kedzierski,
  • Tom Kotsimbos,
  • James M. McCaw,
  • Nicole L. La Gruta,
  • Stephen J. Turner,
  • Allen C. Cheng,
  • Fabio Luciani,
  • Xiaoyan Zhang,
  • Peter C. Doherty,
  • Paul G. Thomas,
  • Jianqing Xu,
  • Katherine Kedzierska

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03243-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Virus-specific CD8+ T cells are crucial during H7N9 influenza infection, but CD8+ T cell dysfunction is associated with poor prognosis. Here, the authors use molecular and phenotypic analysis to establish persistence of clonally diverse CD8+ T cell populations during fatal infection.