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. 1994 May;68(5):3065–3070. doi: 10.1128/jvi.68.5.3065-3070.1994

Virus-specific CD8+ T-cell responses in mice transgenic for a T-cell receptor beta chain selected at random.

C Ewing 1, W Allan 1, K Daly 1, S Hou 1, G A Cole 1, P C Doherty 1, M A Blackman 1
PMCID: PMC236796  PMID: 7908699

Abstract

The consequences of severely limiting the T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire available for the response to intranasal infection with an influenza A virus or with Sendai virus have been analyzed by using H-2k mice (TG8.1) transgenic for a TCR beta-chain gene (V beta 8.1D beta 2J beta 2.3C beta 2). Analyzing the prevalence of V beta 8.1+ CD8+ T cells in lymph node cultures from nontransgenic (non-TG) H-2k controls primed with either virus and then stimulated in vitro with the homologous virus or with anti-CD3 epsilon showed that this TCR is not normally selected from the CD8+ T-cell repertoire during these infections. However, the TG8.1 mice cleared both viruses and generated virus-specific effector cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and memory CTL precursors, though the responses were delayed compared with the non-TG controls. Depletion of the CD4+ T-cell subset had little effect on the course of influenza virus infection but substantially slowed the development of the Sendai virus-specific CTL response and virus elimination in both the TG8.1 and non-TG mice, indicating that CD4+ helpers are promoting the CD8+ T-cell response in the Sendai virus model. Even so, restricting the available T-cell repertoire to lymphocytes expressing a single TCR beta chain still allows sufficient TCR diversity for CD8+ T cells (acting in the presence or absence of the CD4+ subset) to limit infection with an influenza A virus and a parainfluenza type 1 virus.

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