Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

MAIT cell clonal expansion and TCR repertoire shaping in human volunteers challenged with Salmonella Paratyphi A

  • Lauren J. Howson,
  • Giorgio Napolitani,
  • Dawn Shepherd,
  • Hemza Ghadbane,
  • Prathiba Kurupati,
  • Lorena Preciado-Llanes,
  • Margarida Rei,
  • Hazel C. Dobinson,
  • Malick M. Gibani,
  • Karen Wei Weng Teng,
  • Evan W. Newell,
  • Natacha Veerapen,
  • Gurdyal S. Besra,
  • Andrew J. Pollard,
  • Vincenzo Cerundolo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02540-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Most MAIT cell response to infection studies are of mice. Here the authors characterize MAIT cell population responses to Salmonella Paratyphi A infection of 25 human volunteers using TCR clonotype analysis and mass cytometry of pre-infection matched to post-infection samples.