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Murine plasmacytoid dendritic cells induce effector/memory CD8+ T-cell responses in vivo after viral stimulation.

Abstract

Like their human counterparts, mouse plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) play a central role in innate immunity against viral infections, but their capacity to prime T cells in vivo remains unknown. We show here that virus-activated pDCs differentiate into antigen-presenting cells able to induce effector/memory CD8(+) T-cell responses in vivo against both epitopic peptides and endogenous antigen, whereas pDCs activated by synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides containing unmethylated cytosine-guanine motifs (CpG) acquire only the ability to recall antigen-experienced T-cell responses. We also show that immature pDCs are unable to induce effector or regulatory CD8(+) T-cell responses. Thus, murine pDCs take part in both innate and adaptive immune responses by directly priming naive CD8(+) T cells during viral infection.

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Immunology

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pasteur-00327333 , version 1 (08-10-2008)

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Géraldine Schlecht, Sylvie Garcia, Nicolas Escriou, Antonio A Freitas, Claude Leclerc, et al.. Murine plasmacytoid dendritic cells induce effector/memory CD8+ T-cell responses in vivo after viral stimulation.. Blood, 2004, 104 (6), pp.1808-15. ⟨10.1182/blood-2004-02-0426⟩. ⟨pasteur-00327333⟩
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