Immunization with the amino-terminus region of dense granule protein 6 (GRA6) of Toxoplasma gondii activates CD8+ cytotoxic T cells capable of removing tissue cysts of the parasite through antigen presentation by human HLA-A2.1

Rajesh Mani; Corinne Mercier; Marie France Delauw; Yasuhiro Suzuki

doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2023.105182

Immunization with the amino-terminus region of dense granule protein 6 (GRA6) of Toxoplasma gondii activates CD8⁺ cytotoxic T cells capable of removing tissue cysts of the parasite through antigen presentation by human HLA-A2.1

Rajesh Mani, Corinne Mercier, Marie France Delauw, Yasuhiro Suzuki

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Abstract

CD8⁺ T cells from HLA-A2.1-transgenic mice, but not wild-type mice, immunized with the amino-terminus region (aa 41–152) of dense granule protein 6 (GRA6Nt) of Toxoplasma gondii secreted large amounts of perforin and granzyme B in response to GRA6Nt through antigen presentation by HLA-A2.1 in vitro. When those CD8⁺ T cells were transferred into chronically infected HLA-A2.1-expressing NSG mice deficient in T cells, cerebral cyst burden of the recipients of HLA-A2.1-transgenic T cells, but not of WT T cells, became significantly less than that of control mice with no cell transfer. Furthermore, the significant reduction of the cyst burden by a transfer of the HLA-A2.1-transgenic CD8⁺ immune T cells required an expression of HLA-A2.1 in the recipient NSG mice. Thus, antigen presentation of GRA6Nt by human HLA-A2.1is able to activate anti-cyst CD8⁺ T cells that eliminate T. gondii cysts through antigen presentation by human HLA-A2.1.

Original language	English
Article number	105182
Journal	Microbes and Infection
Volume	25
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2023.105182
State	Published - Nov 1 2023

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The studies are supported in part by the National Institutes of Health , the United States (NIH) grants ( AI095032 , AI152597 , AI136821 , and AI134323 ) (Y.S.). The authors appreciate the support from the Protein Core Laboratory of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, United States for production and purification of rGRA6Nt. The studies are supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, the United States (NIH) grants (AI095032, AI152597, AI136821, and AI134323) (Y.S.). The authors appreciate the support from the Protein Core Laboratory of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, United States for production and purification of rGRA6Nt.

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University of Kentucky College of Medicine
National Institutes of Health (NIH)	AI136821, AI095032, AI134323, AI152597

Keywords

CD8 T cells
Dense granule protein 6
HLA-A2
Protective immunity
Tissue cysts
Toxoplasma

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Immunology
Infectious Diseases

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Mani, R., Mercier, C., Delauw, M. F., & Suzuki, Y. (2023). Immunization with the amino-terminus region of dense granule protein 6 (GRA6) of Toxoplasma gondii activates CD8⁺ cytotoxic T cells capable of removing tissue cysts of the parasite through antigen presentation by human HLA-A2.1. Microbes and Infection, 25(8), Article 105182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2023.105182

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Immunization with the amino-terminus region of dense granule protein 6 (GRA6) of Toxoplasma gondii activates CD8⁺ cytotoxic T cells capable of removing tissue cysts of the parasite through antigen presentation by human HLA-A2.1. / Mani, Rajesh; Mercier, Corinne; Delauw, Marie France et al.
In: Microbes and Infection, Vol. 25, No. 8, 105182, 01.11.2023.

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