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Abdel-Hakeem, Mohamed S; Bédard, Nathalie; Murphy, Donald; Bruneau, Julie; Shoukry, Naglaa H
Gastroenterology (New York, N.Y. 1943), 10/2014, Volume: 147, Issue: 4Journal Article
Background & Aims Development of a vaccine against hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been hindered by our limited understanding of immune correlates of protection during real-life exposure to the virus. We studied the immune response during HCV reinfection. Methods We analyzed blood samples from participants in the Montreal Acute Hepatitis C Injection Drug User Cohort Study who were reinfected with HCV from 2009 to 2012. Five patients spontaneously resolved their second infection and 4 developed chronic infections. We monitored the phenotypic and functional dynamics of HCV-specific memory T cell responses in all subjects during natural re-exposure and re-infection. Results Populations of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells with HCV-specific polyfunctional memory were expanded in all 5 individuals who resolved 2 successive HCV infections. We detected CD127hi HCV-specific memory CD8+ T cells before reinfection regardless of a subject’s ability to clear subsequent infections. Protection against viral persistence was associated with the expansion of a CD127neg , PD1lo effector memory T cells at the peak of the response. We also observed broadening of T-cell response, indicating generation of de novo T-cell responses. The 4 individuals who failed to clear their subsequent infection had limited expansion of HCV-specific CD4+ and CD8+ memory T cells and expressed variable levels of the exhaustion marker PD1 on HCV-specific CD8+ T cells. Dominant epitope regions of HCV strains isolated from patients with persistent reinfection had sequence variations that were not recognized by the pre-existing memory T cells. Conclusions Protection from persistent HCV reinfection depends on the magnitude, breadth, and quality of the HCV-specific memory T-cell response. Sequence homology among viruses and ability of T cells to recognize multiple strains of HCV are critical determinants of protective memory.
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