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Cellular immune correlates of protection against symptomatic pandemic influenza

Sridhar, Saranya, Begom, Shaima, Bermingham, Alison, Hoschler, Katja, Adamson, Walt, Carman, William, Bean, Thomas, Barclay, Wendy +2 more·2013·Nature Medicine

Abstract

The role of T cells in mediating heterosubtypic protection against natural influenza illness in humans is uncertain. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic (pH1N1) provided a unique natural experiment to determine whether crossreactive cellular immunity limits symptomatic illness in antibody-naive individuals. We followed 342 healthy adults through the UK pandemic waves and correlated the responses of pre-existing T cells to the pH1N1 virus and conserved core protein epitopes with clinical outcomes after incident pH1N1 infection. Higher frequencies of pre-existing T cells to conserved CD8 epitopes were found in individuals who developed less severe illness, with total symptom score having the strongest inverse correlation with the frequency of interferon-γ (IFN-γ)(+) interleukin-2 (IL-2)(-) CD8(+) T cells (r = -0.6, P = 0.004). Within this functional CD8(+)IFN-γ(+)IL-2(-) population, cells with the CD45RA(+) chemokine (C-C) receptor 7 (CCR7)(-) phenotype inversely correlated with symptom score and had lung-homing and cytotoxic potential. In the absence of crossreactive neutralizing antibodies, CD8(+) T cells specific to conserved viral epitopes correlated with crossprotection against symptomatic influenza. This protective immune correlate could guide universal influenza vaccine development.

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  • Cross-reactive T cells can provide some degree of protective immunity against respiratory viral infections, as seen in the 2009 influenza H1N1 pandemic.

    “Cross-reactive T cells can provide some degree of protective immunity against respiratory viral infections, as seen in the influenza H1N1 2009 pandemic (Sridhar et al., 2013; Wilkinson et al., 2012).”

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Authors
Sridhar, S., Begom, S., Bermingham, A., Hoschler, K., Adamson, W., Carman, W., Bean, T., Barclay, W., Deeks, J. J., & Lalvani, A.
Affiliations
  • Imperial College London (GB)
  • Public Health England (GB)
  • MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (GB)
  • University of Birmingham (GB)
Corresponding author
Lalvani, Ajit
Venue
Nature Medicine
Published
2013-09-22
Volume
19
Issue
10
Pages
1305-1312
ISSN
  • 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-170X
OpenAlex
W2076787697
Cited by
862
References
58
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FWCI
47.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Harvard University
  • Wellcome Trust
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Oxford
  • Medical Research Council
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Respiratory viral infections research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
Keywords
2009 H1N1 pandemic, correlates of protection, CD8+ T cells, disease severity, interferon-gamma, interleukin-2, CCR7, CD45RA, cytotoxic T lymphocytes, universal influenza vaccine, heterosubtypic immunity
MeSH terms
Adult, Cross Reactions, United Kingdom, Humans, Immunity, Cellular, Immunologic Memory, Influenza, Human, Severity of Illness Index, Cohort Studies, Immunophenotyping, Virus Shedding, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype

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