COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccine induces transient CD8+ T effector cell responses while conserving the memory pool for subsequent reactivation

oleh: Matthias Reinscheid, Hendrik Luxenburger, Vivien Karl, Anne Graeser, Sebastian Giese, Kevin Ciminski, David B. Reeg, Valerie Oberhardt, Natascha Roehlen, Julia Lang-Meli, Kathrin Heim, Nina Gross, Christina Baum, Siegbert Rieg, Claudius Speer, Florian Emmerich, Susanne Breisinger, Daniel Steinmann, Bertram Bengsch, Tobias Boettler, Georg Kochs, Martin Schwemmle, Robert Thimme, Christoph Neumann-Haefelin, Maike Hofmann

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01

Deskripsi

Vaccines induce beneficial immunity for COVID-19, but immune waning prompts boosting vaccination. Here, the authors show that a third, boosting dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine induces transient CD8 + T effector cell response while conserving the CD8 memory T cell pool, thereby permitting reactivation of spike-specific CD8 + T cells upon breakthrough infection or 4th vaccination.