T cell responses induced by attenuated flavivirus vaccination are specific and show limited cross-reactivity with other flavivirus species

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  • Alba Grifoni
  • Hannah Voic
  • Sandeep Kumar Dhanda
  • Conner K. Kidd
  • James D. Brien
  • Buus, Søren
  • Buus, Anette Stryhn
  • Anna P. Durbin
  • Stephen Whitehead
  • Sean A. Diehl
  • Aruna D. De Silva
  • Angel Balmaseda
  • Eva Harris
  • Daniela Weiskopf
  • Alessandro Sette

Members of the flavivirus genus share a high level of sequence similarity and often circulate in the same geographical regions. However, whether T cells induced by one viral species cross-react with other related flaviviruses has not been globally addressed. In this study, we tested pools of epitopes derived from dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV), Japanese encephalitis (JEV), West Nile (WNV), and yellow fever (YFV) viruses by intracellular cytokine staining (ICS) using peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of individuals naturally exposed to DENV or immunized with DENV (TV005) or YF17D vaccine. CD8 T cell responses recognized epitopes from multiple flaviviruses; however, the magnitude of cross-reactive responses was consistently severalfold lower than those to the autologous epitope pools and was associated with lower expression of activation markers such as CD40L, CD69, and CD137. Next, we characterized the antigen sensitivity of short-Term T cell lines (TCL) representing 29 different individual epitope/donor combinations. TCL derived from DENV monovalent vaccinees induced CD8 and CD4 T cells that cross-reacted within the DENV serocomplex but were consistently associated with > 100-fold-lower antigen sensitivity for most other flaviviruses, with no cross-recognition of YFV-derived peptides. CD8 and CD4 TCL from YF17D vaccinees were associated with very limited cross-reactivity with any other flaviviruses and in five out of eight cases > 1,000-foldlower antigen sensitivity. Overall, our data suggest limited cross-reactivity for both CD4 and CD8 T cell responses between flaviviruses and have implications for understanding immunity elicited by natural infection and strategies to develop live attenuated vaccines against flaviviral species.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummere00089-20
TidsskriftJournal of Virology
Vol/bind94
Udgave nummer10
ISSN0022-538X
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2020

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
and P01AI106695 to E. Harris. Additional support was provided by contract HHSN272200900045C to E. Harris. The TV003/005 clinical trials were funded by contract HHSN272200900010C of the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, NIAID.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health contracts HHSN272200900042C and HHSN27220140045C to A. Sette, 75N9301900065 to A. Sette and D. Weiskopf,

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