title: Immune regulation in Chandipura virus infection: characterization of CD4+ T regulatory cells from infected mice.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Chandipura virus produces acute infection in mice. During infection drastic reduction of CD4+, CD8+ and CD19 + cell was noticed. Depletion of lymphocytes also noticed in spleen. The reduction may be due to the regulatory mechanism of immune system to prevent the bystander host tissue injury. There are several mechanisms like generation of regulatory cells, activation induced cell death (ACID) etc were indicated to control the activation and maintain cellular homeostasis. Role of regulatory cells in homeostasis has been described in several viral diseases. This study was undertaken to characterize CD4+T regulatory cells from the infected mice.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this study we purified the CD4+ T cells from Chandipura virus infected susceptible Balb/c mice. CD4+ T regulatory cells were identified by expression of cell surface markers CD25, CD127 and CTLA-4 and intracellular markers Foxp3, IL-10 and TGF-beta. Antigen specificity and ability to suppress the proliferation of other lymphocytes were studied in vitro by purified CD4+CD25+T regulatory cells from infected mice. The proliferation was calculated by proliferation module of Flow Jo software. Expression of death receptors on regulatory cells were studied by flowcytometer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The CD4+ T cells isolated from infected mice expressed characteristic markers of regulatory phenotype at all post infective hours tested. The CD4+ T regulatory cells were proliferated when stimulated with Chandipura virus antigen. The regulatory cells did not suppress the proliferation of splenocytes stimulated with anti CD3 antibody when co cultured with them. Interesting observation was, while purification of CD4+ T cells by negative selection, the population of cells negative for CD4 also co purified along with CD4+ T cell. Flow cytometry analysis and light microscopy revealed that CD4 negative cells were of different size and shape (atypical) compared to the normal lymphocytes. Greater percentage of these atypical lymphocytes expressed Fas Ligand and Programmed Death1 (PD-1) receptor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  From these results we concluded that virus specific CD4+T regulatory cells are generated during Chandipura virus infection in mice and these cells might control the activated lymphocytes during infection by different mechanism.
authors: Chandipura Virus Group, National Institute of Virology, Pune-411001, India. anukumar_b74@yahoo.com
authors: Balakrishnan
authors: B
authors: Anukumar
authors: Prajakta
authors: P
authors: Shahir
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