University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications
Title
Anti-IFN-gamma and peptide-tolerization therapies inhibit acute lung injury induced by cross-reactive influenza A-specific memory T cells
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Pathology
Publication Date
2013-03-15
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Acute Lung Injury; Animals; Antibodies; CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes; Cell Line; Cricetinae; Cross Reactions; Disease Models, Animal; Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; Humans; *Immune Tolerance; *Immunologic Memory; Influenza A virus; Interferon-gamma; Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis; Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Orthomyxoviridae Infections; Peptide Fragments; Severity of Illness Index
Disciplines
Immunology of Infectious Disease | Respiratory Tract Diseases | Virus Diseases
Abstract
Viral infections have variable outcomes, with severe disease occurring in only few individuals. We hypothesized that this variable outcome could correlate with the nature of responses made to previous microbes. To test this, mice were infected initially with influenza A virus (IAV) and in memory phase challenged with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), which we show in this study to have relatively minor cross-reactivity with IAV. The outcome in genetically identical mice varied from mild pneumonitis to severe acute lung injury with extensive pneumonia and bronchiolization, similar to that observed in patients who died of the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. Lesion expression did not correlate with virus titers. Instead, disease severity directly correlated with and was predicted by the frequency of IAV-PB1703- and IAV-PA224-specific responses, which cross-reacted with LCMV-GP34 and LCMV-GP276, respectively. Eradication or functional ablation of these pathogenic memory T cell populations, using mutant-viral strains, peptide-based tolerization strategies, or short-term anti-IFN-gamma treatment, inhibited severe lesions such as bronchiolization from occurring. Heterologous immunity can shape outcome of infections and likely individual responses to vaccination, and can be manipulated to treat or prevent severe pathology.
DOI of Published Version
10.4049/jimmunol.1201936
Source
J Immunol. 2013 Mar 15;190(6):2736-46. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201936. Link to article on publisher's site
Related Resources
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
PubMed ID
23408839
Repository Citation
Wlodarczyk, Myriam F.; Kraft, Anke R.; Chen, Hong D.; Kenney, Laurie L.; and Selin, Liisa K., "Anti-IFN-gamma and peptide-tolerization therapies inhibit acute lung injury induced by cross-reactive influenza A-specific memory T cells" (2013). University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications. 140.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/140