Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

A functional subset of CD8+ T cells during chronic exhaustion is defined by SIRPα expression

  • Lara M. Myers,
  • Michal Caspi Tal,
  • Laughing Bear Torrez Dulgeroff,
  • Aaron B. Carmody,
  • Ronald J. Messer,
  • Gunsagar Gulati,
  • Ying Ying Yiu,
  • Matthew M. Staron,
  • Cesar Lopez Angel,
  • Rahul Sinha,
  • Maxim Markovic,
  • Edward A. Pham,
  • Benjamin Fram,
  • Aijaz Ahmed,
  • Aaron M. Newman,
  • Jeffrey S. Glenn,
  • Mark M. Davis,
  • Susan M. Kaech,
  • Irving L. Weissman,
  • Kim J. Hasenkrug

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08637-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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SIRPa is most commonly known as a phagocytosis inhibitory receptor expressed by myeloid cells. Here the authors show SIRPa is expressed on a subset of CD8+ T cells with higher proliferative and effector activity during the chronic phase of the immune response to viral infection.