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Bystander activation of tissue-resident memory CD4 T cells: Getting by with a little help from unfamiliar T cell friends.

Reexposure to a pathogen triggers the activation of memory T cells that have already encountered a similar microbe. These long-lived CD4 T cells either circulate through the blood and tissues or reside within organs and are referred to as tissue-resident T cells (CD4 TRM ). In the current issue of the European Journal of Immunology[Eur. J. Immunol. 2023.53:xxxx-xxxxx] issue, Curham et al. found that tissue-resident memory CD4 T cells in the lung and nasal tissues can respond to non-cognate immune challenges. CD4 TRM cells which were formed in response to Bordetella pertussis proliferated and produced IL-17A in response to a secondary challenge with heat-killed Klebsiella pneumonia or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). This bystander response depends on the presence of dendritic cells that provide inflammatory cytokines. Furthermore, post K.pneumonia, intranasal immunization with whole cell pertussis vaccine reduced bacterial burden in the nasal tissue in a CD4 T cell-dependent manner. The study indicates that the non-cognate activation of TRM may serve as an innate-like immune response that rapidly develops before establishing a new pathogen-specific adaptive immune response. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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