title: In vivo hierarchy of individual T-cell epitope-specific helper T-cell subset against an intracellular bacterium.
abstract: Cellular immunity is indispensable for efficient protection against intracellular bacterial infection. CD4+ and CD8+ T cells specific for a variety of antigenic peptides derived from particular bacteria are induced after the infection. T cells recognizing different antigenic peptides have been speculated to have different functions in terms of the protective immunity. We here induced individual CD4+ T cells specific for each antigenic peptide derived from Listeria monocytogenes independently with DNA vaccines using gene gun bombardment and compared the CD4+ T-cell populations for their ability on the specific protective immunity against lethal listerial challenge and analyzed their characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Higashi-ku, Handa-yama, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan. tnagata@hama-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: Toshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: Taiki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aoshi
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uchijima
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koide
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D019470:Biolistics; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D008088:Listeriosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology*; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000276:immunology*; D019444:Vaccines, DNA / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; D019444:Vaccines, DNA