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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756
Gammaherpesviruses can persist in the host in the face of an aggressive immune response. T cells recognize Ags expressed in both the productive and latent phases of the virus life cycle, however little is known about their relative roles in the long-term control of the infection. In this study we used the murine gammaherpesvirus 68 model system to investigate the relative properties of CD8 T cells recognizing lytic and latent viral Ags. We report that the CD8 T cell response to lytic phase epitopes is maximal in the lungs of infected mice at 
10 days postinfection, and is of progressively lesser magnitude in the mediastinal lymph nodes and spleen. In contrast, the CD8 T cell response to the latent M2 protein is maximal at 19 days postinfection and is most prominent in the spleen, then progressively less in the mediastinal lymph node and the lung. Latent and lytic Ag-specific CD8 T cells had markedly different cell surface phenotypes during chronic infection, with latent Ag-specific cells being predominantly CD62Lhigh or CD43 (1B11)high. Lytic Ag-specific T cells had significantly lower expression of these markers. Importantly, latent but not lytic Ag-specific T cells could kill target cells rapidly in vivo during the chronic infection. These two different sets of CD8 T cells also responded differentially to IL-7, a cytokine involved in T cell homeostasis and the maintenance of T cell memory. These data have important implications for our understanding of immunological control during chronic gammaherpesvirus infections.
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