@article{32807f534281478dafd54cb4aff14f63,
title = "Influenza-specific lung-resident memory t cells are proliferative and polyfunctional and maintain diverse TCR profiles",
abstract = "The human lung harbors a large population of resident memory T cells (Trm cells). These cells are perfectly positioned to mediate rapid protection against respiratory pathogens such as influenza virus, a highly contagious respiratory pathogen that continues to be a major public health burden. Animal models show that influenza-specific lung CD8+ Trm cells are indispensable for crossprotection against pulmonary infection with different influenza virus strains. However, it is not known whether influenza-specific CD8+ Trm cells present within the human lung have the same critical role in modulating the course of the disease. Here, we showed that human lung contains a population of CD8+ Trm cells that are highly proliferative and have polyfunctional progeny. We observed that different influenza virus–specific CD8+ T cell specificities differentiated into Trm cells with varying efficiencies and that the size of the influenza-specific CD8+ T cell population persisting in the lung directly correlated with the efficiency of differentiation into Trm cells. To our knowledge, we provide the first ex vivo dissection of paired T cell receptor (TCR) repertoires of human influenza–specific CD8+ Trm cells. Our data reveal diverse TCR profiles within the human lung Trm cells and a high degree of clonal sharing with other CD8+ T cell populations, a feature important for effective T cell function and protection against the generation of viral-escape mutants.",
author = "Angela Pizzolla and Nguyen, {Thi H.O.} and Sneha Sant and Jade Jaffar and Tom Loudovaris and Mannering, {Stuart I.} and Thomas, {Paul G.} and Westall, {Glen P.} and Katherine Kedzierska and Wakim, {Linda M.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank S. Gras and J. Rossjohn (Monash University) for monomers. This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) (to LMW), the CASS Foundation (to LMW), and a NHMRC program grant (1071916 to KK). SS is supported by the Victoria-India Doctoral Scholarship (VIDS) and the Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS), and KK is an NHMRC senior research level B fellow. SIM was supported by JDRF (JDRF 17-2011-527), NHMRC (GNT1123586) and the Operational Infrastructure Support Program of the Victorian Government. The Alfred Hospital{\textquoteright}s Lung Tissue Biobank is supported by the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Pulmonary Fibrosis Address correspondence to: Linda M. Wakim or Katherine Kedzier-ska, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, The Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Level 8 (L.M. Wakim), Level 7 (K. Kedzierska),792 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, 3000, VIC, Australia. Phone: 61.3.9035.4141; Email: wakiml@unimelb.edu.au (L.M. Wakim). Phone: 61.3.8344.7962; Email: kkedz@unimelb.edu.au (K. Kedzierska). Funding Information: We thank S. Gras and J. Rossjohn (Monash University) for monomers. This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) (to LMW), the CASS Foundation (to LMW), and a NHMRC program grant (1071916 to KK). SS is supported by the Victoria-India Doctoral Scholarship (VIDS) and the Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS), and KK is an NHMRC senior research level B fellow. SIM was supported by JDRF (JDRF 17-2011-527), NHMRC (GNT1123586) and the Operational Infrastructure Support Program of the Victorian Government. The Alfred Hospital{\textquoteright}s Lung Tissue Biobank is supported by the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Pulmonary Fibrosis",
year = "2018",
month = feb,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1172/JCI96957",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "128",
pages = "721--733",
journal = "Journal of Clinical Investigation",
issn = "0021-9738",
publisher = "The American Society for Clinical Investigation",
number = "2",
}