## Abstract Excessive immune activation is a hallmark of chronic uncontrolled HIV infection. During the past years, growing evidence suggests that immune inhibitory signals also play an important role in progressive disease. However, the relationship between positive and negative immune signals on
Loss of DNAM-1 contributes to CD8+ T-cell exhaustion in chronic HIV-1 infection
โ Scribed by Marina Cella; Rachel Presti; William Vermi; Kerry Lavender; Emma Turnbull; Christina Ochsenbauer-Jambor; John C. Kappes; Guido Ferrari; Lisa Kessels; Ian Williams; Andrew J. McMichael; Barton F. Haynes; Persephone Borrow; Marco Colonna
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 350 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2980
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โฆ Synopsis
Abstract
The hallmark of chronic viral infections is a progressive exhaustion of antigenโspecific CD8^+^ T cells that leads to persisting viral replication. It is generally believed that exhaustion is a consequence of the accumulation of multiple inhibitory receptors on CD8^+^ T cells that makes them dysfunctional. Here, we show that during human chronic HIVโ1 infection, a CD8^+^ Tโcell positive costimulatory pathway mediated by DNAXโactivating moleculeโ1 is also disrupted. Thus, DNAXโactivating moleculeโ1 downregulation on CD8^+^ T cells aggravates the impairment of CTL effector function in chronic HIVโ1 infection.
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