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Journal of Virology, August 2000, p. 7320-7330, Vol. 74, No. 16
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Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Specific Circulating
CD8 T Lymphocytes Have Down-Modulated CD3
and CD28, Key
Signaling Molecules for T-Cell Activation
Linda A.
Trimble,1,
Premlata
Shankar,1
Mark
Patterson,1
Johanna P.
Daily,2 and
Judy
Lieberman1,*
The Center for Blood Research, Harvard
Medical School,1 and Department of
Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital,2
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Received 14 February 2000/Accepted 17 May 2000
Although human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected subjects
without AIDS have a high frequency of HIV-specific CD8 T lymphocytes, cellular immunity is unable to control infection. Freshly isolated lymphocytes often do not lyse HIV-infected targets in 4-h cytotoxicity assays. A large fraction of circulating CD8 T cells from HIV-infected donors down-modulate CD3
, the signaling component of the T-cell receptor complex, which is reexpressed in vitro coincident with the
return of cytotoxic function. To investigate further the link between
CD3
down-modulation and possible CD8 T-cell functional defects, we
used flow cytometry to characterize further the properties of the
CD3
-down-modulated subset. HIV-specific CD8 T cells, identified by
tetramer staining, are CD3
. CD8 T cells with
down-modulated CD3
also do not express the key costimulatory
receptor CD28 and have the cell surface phenotype of activated or
memory T cells (HLA-DR+ CD62L
). After T-cell
activation, CD3
-down-modulated cells express the activation marker
CD69 but not the high-affinity interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptor
-chain
CD25 and produce gamma interferon but not IL-2. Therefore HIV-specific
CD8 T cells have down-modulated key signaling molecules for T-cell
activation and costimulation and require exogenous cytokine
stimulation. The typical impairment of HIV-specific CD4 T helper cells,
which would normally provide specific CD8 T-cell stimulation, means
that in vivo CTL function in vivo is compromised in most HIV-infected
individuals. In AIDS patients, the functional defect is more severe,
since CD3
is not reexpressed even after IL-2 exposure.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: The Center for
Blood Research, 800 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115. Phone: (617) 278-3381. Fax: (617) 278-3493. E-mail:
lieberman{at}cbr.med.harvard.edu.

Present address: Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
02115.
Journal of Virology, August 2000, p. 7320-7330, Vol. 74, No. 16
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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