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The herpes simplex virus type 1 latency-associated transcript inhibits phenotypic and functional maturation of dendritic cells.
Viral immunology - 1 Jun 2012
Chentoufi Aziz Alami, Dervillez Xavier, Dasgupta Gargi, Nguyen Chelsea, Kabbara Khaled W, Jiang Xianzhi, Nesburn Anthony B, Wechsler Steven L, Benmohamed Lbachir
Abstract excerpt
We recently found that the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) latency-associated transcript (LAT) results in exhaustion of virus-specific CD8⁺ T cells in latently-infected trigeminal ganglia (TG). In this study we sought to determine if this impairment may involve LAT directly and/or indirectly interfering with DC maturation. We found that a small number of HSV-1 antigen-positive DCs are present in the TG of...
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