A Role for Intercellular Antigen Transfer in the Recognition of EBV-Transformed B Cell Lines by EBV Nuclear Antigen-Specific CD4+ T Cells

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The CD4+ T cell response to EBV may have an important role in controlling virus-driven B lymphoproliferation because CD4+ T cell clones to a subset of EBV nuclear Ag (EBNA) epitopes can directly recognize virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) in vitro and inhibit their growth. In this study, we used a panel of EBNA1, 2, 3A, and 3C-specific CD4+ T cell clones to study the route whereby endogenously...

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