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Airway-resident T cells from unexposed individuals cross-recognize SARS-CoV-2

Diniz, Mariana O; Mitsi, Elena; Swadling, Leo; Rylance, Jamie; Johnson, Marina; Goldblatt, David; Ferreira, Daniela; (2022) Airway-resident T cells from unexposed individuals cross-recognize SARS-CoV-2. Nature Immunology 10.1038/s41590-022-01292-1. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

T cells can contribute to clearance of respiratory viruses that cause acute-resolving infections such as SARS-CoV-2, helping to provide long-lived protection against disease. Recent studies have suggested an additional role for T cells in resisting overt infection: pre-existing cross-reactive responses were preferentially enriched in healthcare workers who had abortive infections1, and in household contacts protected from infection2. We hypothesize that such early viral control would require pre-existing cross-reactive memory T cells already resident at the site of infection; such airway-resident responses have been shown to be critical for mediating protection after intranasal vaccination in a murine model of SARS-CoV3. Bronchoalveolar lavage samples from the lower respiratory tract of healthy donors obtained before the COVID-19 pandemic revealed airway-resident, SARS-CoV-2-cross-reactive T cells, which correlated with the strength of human seasonal coronavirus immunity. We therefore demonstrate the potential to harness functional airway-resident SARS-CoV-2-reactive T cells in next-generation mucosal vaccines.

Type: Article
Title: Airway-resident T cells from unexposed individuals cross-recognize SARS-CoV-2
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41590-022-01292-1
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-022-01292-1
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Infection and Immunity
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Dept
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154906
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