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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on July 5, 2002; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-05-1387.

Submitted May 13, 2002
Accepted June 29, 2002
Cytomegalovirus reactivation following allogeneic stem cell transplantation is associated with the presence of dysfunctional antigen-specific CD8+ T cells
Evren Ozdemir, Lisa S St. John, Geraldine M Gillespie, Sarah L Rowland-Jones, Richard E Champlin, Jeffrey J Molldrem, and Krishna V Komanduri*
Transplant Immunology Section, Dept. of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
MRC Human Immunology Unit, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom
* Corresponding author; email: kkomandu{at}mail.mdanderson.org.
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection causes significant morbidity and mortality in the setting of immunodeficiency, including the immune reconstitution phase following allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). We assessed CMV-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses in 87 HLA A*0201-positive (A2+) and/or B*0702-positive (B7+) allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients using HLA-peptide tetramer staining and cytokine flow cytometry (CFC) to examine the association of CMV-specific immune reconstitution and CMV antigenemia following SCT. Strong CMV-specific T cell responses recovered in most subjects (77 of 87, 88%) after SCT. Frequencies of CMV-specific CD8+ T cells were significantly higher in those subjects who experienced early antigenemia relative to those who did not (2.2% vs. 0.33%, p=0.0002), as were frequencies of CMV-specific CD4+ T cells (1.71% vs. 0.75%, p=0.002). Frequencies of CMV-specific CD8+ T cells were also higher in subjects experiencing late antigenemia (2.4% vs. 0.57%). When we combined tetramer staining and an assessment of cytokine production in a single assay, we found that individuals who experienced CMV antigenemia had lower TNF -producing fractions of tetramer-staining CMV-specific CD8+ T cells than subjects who did not (25% vs. 65%, p=0.015). Furthermore, individuals at high risk for CMV reactivation, including patients with acute graft-versus-host disease and those receiving steroids, had low fractions of cytokine-producing CMV-specific CD8+ T cells (25% and 27%, respectively). These data suggest that the inability to control CMV reactivation following allogeneic SCT is due to the impaired function of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells, rather than an inability to recover sufficient numbers of CMV-specific T cells.

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