Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Identification of human progenitors of exhausted CD8+ T cells associated with elevated IFN-γ response in early phase of viral infection

  • Curtis Cai,
  • Jerome Samir,
  • Mehdi R. Pirozyan,
  • Thiruni N. Adikari,
  • Money Gupta,
  • Preston Leung,
  • Brendan Hughes,
  • Willem Van der Byl,
  • Simone Rizzetto,
  • Auda Elthala,
  • Elizabeth Keoshkerian,
  • Jean-Louis Palgen,
  • Timothy Peters,
  • Thi H. O. Nguyen,
  • Raymond Louie,
  • Katherine Kedzierska,
  • Silvana Gaudieri,
  • Rowena A. Bull,
  • Andrew R. Lloyd,
  • Fabio Luciani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35281-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The early immune response following exposure to HCV is not fully explored. Here the authors use single cell analysis and immune profiling to relate the infection sequence and immune response to early HCV infection showing that exhausted phenotypes of T cells arise early post infection.