Mucosal-associated invariant T-cells are severely reduced and exhausted in humans with chronic HBV infection.

Journal of Viral Hepatitis
Wenyong HuangYifang Gao

Abstract

Chronic hepatitis B virus (CHBV) infection is a major cause of liver diseases. Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are important for antiviral immunity in the liver, but the distinction between intrasinusoidal and peripheral MAIT cells in patients with CHBV infections remains unclear. PBMCs were obtained from patients with CHBV infections (n = 29) and age-matched controls (n = 46). Liver-associated mononuclear cells (LMCs) were collected from healthy donors (n = 29) and explanted livers (n = 19) from patients and used for phenotypic, functional and TCR diversity analyses. The percentages of both peripheral and intrasinusoidal MAIT cells were significantly reduced in the CHBV infection group compared to the control group. Peripheral MAIT cells from CHBV-infected patients expressed higher levels of HLA-DR, CD69, CD38 and PD-1 than those of controls. We also confirmed that peripheral MAIT cells in HBV patients had elevated expression T-cell exhaustion genes. Except for a difference in the level of PD-1, no differences were observed between the liver MAIT cells of the two groups. The production of IFN-α in peripheral MAIT cells of CHBV infection patients was lower than in control patients, but no such difference was observe...Continue Reading

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