PD-L1 Expression on Retrovirus-Infected Cells Mediates Immune Escape from CD8+ T Cell Killing

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Akhmetzyanova, Ilseyar ^a   Drabczyk, Malgorzata ^a   Neff, C Preston ^b   Gibbert, Kathrin ^a   Dietze, Kirsten K ^a   Werner, Tanja ^a   Liu, Jia ^a,c   Chen, Lieping ^d   Lang, Karl S ^a   Palmer, Brent E ^b   Dittmer, Ulf ^a   Zelinskyy, Gennadiy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL KILLING; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; RNA ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOLOGY; RETROVIRIDAE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD274; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84946010411     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005224     Document Type: Article

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