title: Vaccine protection against functional CTL abnormalities in simian human immunodeficiency virus-infected rhesus monkeys.
abstract: Accumulating evidence suggests that HIV-specific CD8(+) CTL are dysfunctional in HIV-infected individuals with progressive clinical disease. In the present studies, cytokine production by virus-specific CTL was assessed in the rhesus monkey model for AIDS to determine its contribution to the functional impairment of CTL. CTL from monkeys infected with nonpathogenic isolates of simian and simian-human immunodeficiency virus expressed high levels of IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha, and IL-2 after in vitro exposure to a nonspecific mitogen or the optimal peptide representing a dominant virus-specific CTL epitope. However, similarly performed studies assessing these capabilities in CTL from monkeys infected with pathogenic immunodeficiency virus isolates demonstrated a significant dysfunction in the ability of the CTL to produce IL-2 and TNF-alpha. Importantly, CTL from vaccinated monkeys that effectively controlled the replication of a highly pathogenic simian-human immunodeficiency virus isolate following challenge demonstrated a preserved capacity to produce these cytokines. These experiments suggest that defects in cytokine production may contribute to CTL dysfunction in chronic HIV or SIV infection. Moreover, an AIDS vaccine that confers protection against clinical disease evolution in this experimental model also preserves the functional capacity of these CTL to produce both IL-2 and TNF-alpha.
authors.affiliation: Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
authors.forename: Paul F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: McKay
authors.forename: Jörn E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Schmitz
authors.forename: Dan H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Barouch
authors.forename: Marcelo J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: Michelle A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lifton
authors.forename: Christine E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Nickerson
authors.forename: Darci A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Gorgone
authors.forename: Norman L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Letvin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D018791:CD4 Lymphocyte Count; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D016207:Cytokines / Q000096:biosynthesis; D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / Q000276:immunology; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D015683:Gene Products, gag / Q000276:immunology; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D018449:SAIDS Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D016097:Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000821:virology; D015302:Simian Immunodeficiency Virus / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology*; D019444:Vaccines, DNA / Q000276:immunology; D019562:Viral Load
chemical_list: D000956:Antigens, Viral; D016207:Cytokines; D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; D015683:Gene Products, gag; D018449:SAIDS Vaccines; D019444:Vaccines, DNA