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Bosch, Miriam; Kallin, Nina; Donakonda, Sainitin; Zhang, Jitao David; Wintersteller, Hannah; Hegenbarth, Silke; Heim, Kathrin; Ramirez, Carlos; Fürst, Anna; Lattouf, Elias Isaac; Feuerherd, Martin; Chattopadhyay, Sutirtha; Kumpesa, Nadine; Griesser, Vera; Hoflack, Jean-Christophe; Siebourg-Polster, Juliane; Mogler, Carolin; Swadling, Leo; Pallett, Laura J.; Meiser, Philippa; Manske, Katrin; de Almeida, Gustavo P.; Kosinska, Anna D.; Sandu, Ioana; [...]

A liver immune rheostat regulates CD8 T cell immunity in chronic HBV infection

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: A liver immune rheostat regulates CD8 T cell immunity in chronic HBV infection
  • Contributor: Bosch, Miriam; Kallin, Nina; Donakonda, Sainitin; Zhang, Jitao David; Wintersteller, Hannah; Hegenbarth, Silke; Heim, Kathrin; Ramirez, Carlos; Fürst, Anna; Lattouf, Elias Isaac; Feuerherd, Martin; Chattopadhyay, Sutirtha; Kumpesa, Nadine; Griesser, Vera; Hoflack, Jean-Christophe; Siebourg-Polster, Juliane; Mogler, Carolin; Swadling, Leo; Pallett, Laura J.; Meiser, Philippa; Manske, Katrin; de Almeida, Gustavo P.; Kosinska, Anna D.; Sandu, Ioana; [...]
  • Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2024
  • Published in: Nature, 631 (2024) 8022, Seite 867-875
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07630-7
  • ISSN: 0028-0836; 1476-4687
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  • Description: AbstractChronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection affects 300 million patients worldwide1,2, in whom virus-specific CD8 T cells by still ill-defined mechanisms lose their function and cannot eliminate HBV-infected hepatocytes3–7. Here we demonstrate that a liver immune rheostat renders virus-specific CD8 T cells refractory to activation and leads to their loss of effector functions. In preclinical models of persistent infection with hepatotropic viruses such as HBV, dysfunctional virus-specific CXCR6+ CD8 T cells accumulated in the liver and, as a characteristic hallmark, showed enhanced transcriptional activity of cAMP-responsive element modulator (CREM) distinct from T cell exhaustion. In patients with chronic hepatitis B, circulating and intrahepatic HBV-specific CXCR6+ CD8 T cells with enhanced CREM expression and transcriptional activity were detected at a frequency of 12–22% of HBV-specific CD8 T cells. Knocking out the inhibitory CREM/ICER isoform in T cells, however, failed to rescue T cell immunity. This indicates that CREM activity was a consequence, rather than the cause, of loss in T cell function, further supported by the observation of enhanced phosphorylation of protein kinase A (PKA) which is upstream of CREM. Indeed, we found that enhanced cAMP–PKA-signalling from increased T cell adenylyl cyclase activity augmented CREM activity and curbed T cell activation and effector function in persistent hepatic infection. Mechanistically, CD8 T cells recognizing their antigen on hepatocytes established close and extensive contact with liver sinusoidal endothelial cells, thereby enhancing adenylyl cyclase–cAMP–PKA signalling in T cells. In these hepatic CD8 T cells, which recognize their antigen on hepatocytes, phosphorylation of key signalling kinases of the T cell receptor signalling pathway was impaired, which rendered them refractory to activation. Thus, close contact with liver sinusoidal endothelial cells curbs the activation and effector function of HBV-specific CD8 T cells that target hepatocytes expressing viral antigens by means of the adenylyl cyclase–cAMP–PKA axis in an immune rheostat-like fashion.