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Efficient In Vivo Presentation of Listeria monocytogenes- Derived CD4 and CD8 T Cell Epitopes in the Absence of IFN-¹

Mojca koberne and Gernot Geginat²

Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Fakultät für Klinische Medizin Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

IFN- is an essential component of the early Listeria monocytogenes-specific immune response, and is also an important regulator of Ag processing and presentation. Ag presentation is required for the induction and also the effector function of antimicrobial T cells. To evaluate the effect of IFN- on bacterial Ag presentation in vivo, macrophages and dendritic cells were separated from L. monocytogenes-infected tissues and analyzed with peptide-specific CD4 and CD8 T cell lines in a sensitive ELISPOT-based ex vivo Ag presentation assay. The comparison of professional APCs isolated from infected IFN--deficient and wild-type mice revealed different peptide presentation patterns of L. monocytogenes-derived CD8 T cell epitopes, while the presentation pattern of CD4 T cell epitopes remained unchanged. The further in vitro analysis of the generation of CD8 T cell epitopes revealed a peptide-specific effect of IFN- on MHC class I-restricted Ag presentation. These results show that despite this modulation of the Ag presentation pattern of CD8 T cell epitopes, IFN- is not generally required for the MHC class I- and MHC class II-restricted presentation of L. monocytogenes-derived antigenic peptides by professional APCs in vivo.

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