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A Potential Strategy To Maintain Hsv-1 In A Latent State: Use Of Immunoregulatory Peptide Mimetics, Nasrin Majidi
A Potential Strategy To Maintain Hsv-1 In A Latent State: Use Of Immunoregulatory Peptide Mimetics, Nasrin Majidi
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This study reviews the role of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) in HSV-1 latency. CD8+ T cells inhibit the reactivation of HSV-1 in trigeminal ganglia (TG) by production of IFN-gamma. Although CD8+ T cells include all the cytotoxic apparatus for cytotoxicity, latently infected neuronal cells are not killed by CD8+ T cells. The CD94-NKG2a molecule on CD8+ T cells, binds to Qa-1b (a MHC class I like molecule) present on neuronal cell to inhibit CD8+ T cells cytotoxicity. Other studies have also determined that the IFN-gamma peptide mimetic 95-132 inhibits HSV-1 replication in the same way as IFN-gamma in infected cells. IFN-gamma mimetic …