IL-15 stimulates the expansion of AIDS virus-specific CTL

Kanai, T.; Thomas, E.K.; Yasutomi, Y.; Letvin, N.L.

Journal of Immunology 157(8): 3681-3687

1996


ISSN/ISBN: 0022-1767
PMID: 8871670
Document Number: 459560
Cultivation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from SIVmac-infected rhesus monkeys or HIV-1-infected human subjects in the presence of cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitopes and recombinant interleukin 15 (IL-15) led to the expansion of HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. This rIL-15 driven expansion and maturation of CTLs was not only independent of IL-2 but was also not mediated by the IL-2 receptor.

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