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1. Co-Expression of TIGIT and Helios Marks Immunosenescent CD8+ T Cells During Aging

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Daan K. J. Pieren, Noortje A. M. Smits, Rimke J. Postel, Vinitha Kandiah, Jelle de Wit, Josine van Beek, Debbie van Baarle, and Teun Guichelaar

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CD8+ T cells, aging, TIGIT, Helios, influenza, immunosenescence, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
Abstract

Aging leads to alterations in the immune system that result in ineffective responsiveness against pathogens. Features of this process, collectively known as immunosenescence, accumulate in CD8+ T cells with age and have been ascribed to differentiation of these cells during the course of life. Here we aimed to identify novel markers in CD8+ T cells associated with immunosenescence. Furthermore, we assessed how these markers relate to the aging-related accumulation of highly differentiated CD27-CD28- cells. We found that co-expression of the transcription factor Helios and the aging-related marker TIGIT identifies CD8+ T cells that fail to proliferate and show impaired induction of activation markers CD69 and CD25 in response to stimulation in vitro. Despite this, in blood of older adults we found TIGIT+Helios+ T cells to become highly activated during an influenza-A virus infection, but these higher frequencies of activated TIGIT+Helios+ T cells associate with longer duration of coughing. Moreover, in healthy individuals, we found that TIGIT+Helios+ CD8+ T cells accumulate with age in the highly differentiated CD27-CD28- population. Interestingly, TIGIT+Helios+ CD8+ T cells also accumulate with age among the less differentiated CD27+CD28- T cells before their transit into the highly differentiated CD27-CD28- stage. This finding suggests that T cells with immunosenescent features become prominent at old age also within the earlier differentiation states of these cells. Our findings show that co-expression of TIGIT and Helios refines the definition of immunosenescent CD8+ T cells and challenge the current dogma of late differentiation stage as proxy for T-cell immunosenescence.

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2022
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2. Co-Expression of TIGIT and Helios Marks Immunosenescent CD8

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Daan K J, Pieren, Noortje A M, Smits, Rimke J, Postel, Vinitha, Kandiah, Jelle, de Wit, Josine, van Beek, Debbie, van Baarle, and Teun, Guichelaar

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Aging, Ikaros Transcription Factor, CD28 Antigens, Immunosenescence, Humans, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Receptors, Immunologic, Aged
Abstract

Aging leads to alterations in the immune system that result in ineffective responsiveness against pathogens. Features of this process, collectively known as immunosenescence, accumulate in CD8

Published
2021

3. Regulatory KIR+RA+ T cells accumulate with age and are highly activated during viral respiratory disease

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Teun Guichelaar, Daan K. J. Pieren, Josine van Beek, Rimke J Postel, Rob Mariman, Noortje A. M. Smits, Vinitha Kandiah, Jelle de Wit, Debbie van Baarle, and Jeroen Hoeboer

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Aging, Population, killer‐cell immunoglobulin‐like receptors, Biology, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, medicine.disease_cause, CD8+ T cells, Virus, regulatory T cells, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Receptors, KIR, T-Lymphocyte Subsets, Influenza, Human, medicine, Cytotoxic T cell, Humans, Respiratory system, education, Receptor, respiratory viral infection, Coronavirus, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, Original Paper, SARS-CoV-2, Respiratory disease, COVID-19, Cell Biology, Original Articles, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Gene Expression Regulation, Immunology, T‐cell activation, Female, viral respiratory disease, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, CD8
Abstract

Severe respiratory viral infectious diseases such as influenza and COVID‐19 especially affect the older population. This is partly ascribed to diminished CD8+ T‐cell responses a result of aging. The phenotypical diversity of the CD8+ T‐cell population has made it difficult to identify the impact of aging on CD8+ T‐cell subsets associated with diminished CD8+ T‐cell responses. Here we identify a novel human CD8+ T‐cell subset characterized by expression of Killer‐cell Immunoglobulin‐like Receptors (KIR+) and CD45RA (RA+). These KIR+RA+ T cells accumulated with age in the blood of healthy individuals (20–82 years of age, n = 50), expressed high levels of aging‐related markers of T‐cell regulation, and were functionally capable of suppressing proliferation of other CD8+ T cells. Moreover, KIR+RA+ T cells were a major T‐cell subset becoming activated in older adults suffering from an acute respiratory viral infection (n = 36), including coronavirus and influenza virus infection. In addition, older adults with influenza A infection showed that higher activation status of their KIR+RA+ T cells associated with longer duration of respiratory symptoms. Together, our data indicate that KIR+RA+ T cells are a unique human T‐cell subset with regulatory properties that may explain susceptibility to viral respiratory disease at old age., Viral infectious diseases such as influenza especially affect the older population due to immunological dysfunctions. We describe a new aging‐related subset of CD8+ T cells that is identified by the co‐expression of KIR and CD45RA and expresses features of senescence/exhaustion and immune suppression. This T‐cell subset increases with age and comprises a major part of the T cells that become activated during influenza correlating with disease in older persons, indicating clinical relevance. ​

Published
2021

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