1. Lung-resident CD3-NK1.1+CD69+CD103+ Cells Play an Important Role in Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Vaccine-Induced Protective Immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection.
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Durojaye O, Vankayalapati A, Paidipally P, Mukherjee T, Vankayalapati R, and Radhakrishnan RK
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- Animals, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, CD3 Complex immunology, Lectins, C-Type immunology, Tuberculosis immunology, Tuberculosis prevention & control, Female, Vaccination, Adoptive Transfer, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary immunology, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary prevention & control, Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte, BCG Vaccine immunology, Lung immunology, Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunology, Antigens, CD immunology, Integrin alpha Chains immunology
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Tissue-resident immune cells play important roles in local tissue homeostasis and infection control. There is no information on the functional role of lung-resident CD3-NK1.1+CD69+CD103+ cells in intranasal Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-vaccinated and/or Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)-infected mice. Therefore, we phenotypically and functionally characterized these cells in mice vaccinated intranasally with BCG. We found that intranasal BCG vaccination increased CD3-NK1.1+ cells with a tissue-resident phenotype (CD69+CD103+) in the lungs during the first 7 d after BCG vaccination. Three months post-BCG vaccination, Mtb infection induced the expansion of CD3-NK1.1+CD69+CD103+ (lung-resident) cells in the lung. Adoptive transfer of lung-resident CD3-NK1.1+CD69+CD103+ cells from the lungs of BCG-vaccinated mice to Mtb-infected naive mice resulted in a lower bacterial burden and reduced inflammation in the lungs. Our findings demonstrated that intranasal BCG vaccination induces the expansion of CD3-NK1.1+CD69+CD103+ (lung-resident) cells to provide protection against Mtb infection., (Copyright © 2024 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.)
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- 2024
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