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Caro-Gomez, Erika; Gazi, Michal; Cespedes, Maria A; Goez, Yenny; Teixeira, Bruno; Valbuena, Gustavo
Vaccine, 09/2014, Volume: 32, Issue: 39Journal Article
Abstract The obligately intracellular bacteria Rickettsia infect endothelial cells and cause systemic febrile diseases that are potentially lethal. No vaccines are currently available and current knowledge of the effective immune response is limited. Natural and experimental rickettsial infections provide strong and cross-protective cellular immunity if the infected individual survives the acute infection. Although resistance to rickettsial infections is attributed to the induction of antigen-specific T cells, particularly CD8+ T cells, the identification and validation of correlates of protective cellular immunity against rickettsial infections, an important step toward vaccine validation, remains a gap in this field. Here, we show that after a primary challenge with Rickettsia typhi in the C3H mouse model, the peak of anti- Rickettsia CD8+ T cell-mediated responses occurs 7 days post-infection (dpi), which coincides with the beginning of rickettsial clearance. At this time point, both effector-type and memory-type CD8+ T cells are present, suggesting that 7 dpi is a valid time point for the assessment of CD8+ T cell responses of mice previously immunized with protective antigens. Based on our results, we suggest four correlates of cellular protection for the assessment of protective rickettsial antigens: (1) production of IFN-γ by antigen-experienced CD3+ CD8+ CD44high cells, (2) production of Granzyme B by CD27low CD43low antigen-experienced CD8+ T cells, (3) generation of memory-type CD8+ T cells Memory Precursor Effector Cells (MPECs), as well as CD127high CD43low , and CD27high CD43low CD8+ T cells, and (4) generation of effector-like memory CD8+ T cells (CD27low CD43low ). We propose that these correlates could be useful for the general assessment of the quality of the CD8+ T cell immune response induced by novel antigens with potential use in a vaccine against Rickettsia.
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