Spatiotemporal regulation of type I interferon expression determines the antiviral polarization of CD4(+) T cells

Marco De Giovanni, Valeria Cutillo, Amir Giladi, Eleonora Sala, Carmela G. Maganuco, Chiara Medaglia, Pietro Di Lucia, Elisa Bono, Claudia Cristofani, Eleonora Consolo, Leonardo Giustini, Alessandra Fiore, Sarah Eickhoff, Wolfgang Kastenmueller, Ido Amit, Mirela Kuka, Matteo Iannacone

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Abstract

Iannacone and colleagues show that the spatiotemporal regulation of type I interferon expression shapes the differentiation of antiviral CD4(+) T cells into T-FH or T(H)1 cells.

Differentiation of CD4(+) T cells into either follicular helper T (T-FH) or type 1 helper T (T(H)1) cells influences the balance between humoral and cellular adaptive immunity, but the mechanisms whereby pathogens elicit distinct effector cells are incompletely understood. Here we analyzed the spatiotemporal dynamics of CD4(+) T cells during infection with recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which induces early, potent neutralizing antibodies, or recombinant lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), which induces a vigorous cellular response but inefficient neutralizing antibodies, expressing the same T cell epitope. Early exposure of dendritic cells to type I interferon (IFN), which occurred during infection with VSV, induced production of the cytokine IL-6 and drove T-FH cell polarization, whereas late exposure to type I IFN, which occurred during infection with LCMV, did not induce IL-6 and allowed differentiation into T(H)1 cells. Thus, tight spatiotemporal regulation of type I IFN shapes antiviral CD4(+) T cell differentiation and might instruct vaccine design strategies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)321-330
Number of pages11
JournalNature Immunology
Volume21
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Feb 2020

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Immunology and Allergy
  • Immunology

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