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  • The importance of CD4(+) T helper (Th) cells is well appreciated in view of their essential role in the elicitation of antibody and cytotoxic T cell responses. However, the mechanisms that determine the selection of immunodominant epitopes within complex protein antigens remain elusive. Here, we used ex vivo stimulation of memory T cells and screening of naive and memory T cell libraries, combined with T cell cloning and TCR sequencing, to dissect the human naive and memory CD4(+) T cell repertoire against the influenza pandemic H1 hemagglutinin (H1-HA). We found that naive CD4(+) T cells have a broad repertoire, being able to recognize naturally processed as well as cryptic peptides spanning the whole H1-HA sequence. In contrast, memory Th cells were primarily directed against just a few immunodominant peptides that were readily detected by mass spectrometry–based MHC-II peptidomics and predicted by structural accessibility analysis. Collectively, these findings reveal the presence of a broad repertoire of naive T cells specific for cryptic H1-HA peptides and demonstrate that antigen processing represents a major constraint determining immunodominance.
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  • 10.1084/jem.20200206
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  • J_Exp_Med
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  • cc-by
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/c9af9fdfcac0c09a7cdf025e5890d996fdd3a37d.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7537397.xml.json
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  • 32644114
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  • PMC
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  • Deciphering and predicting CD4(+) T cell immunodominance of influenza virus hemagglutinin
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  • 2020-07-09

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