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Persistent CMV infection correlates with disease activity and dominates the phenotype of peripheral CD8+ T cells in psoriasis
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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:41 authored by M Weitz, C Kiessling, M Friedrich, S Prosch, C Hoflich, Florian KernFlorian Kern, H D Volk, W Sterry, K Asadullah, W D DockeBackground: Previously, we have reported a frequent association of active plaque psoriasis with inflammation-mediated cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation. Objectives: This study aimed at characterizing the impact of CMV infection on psoriasis disease activity and peripheral cellular adaptive immune response. Patients/Methods: Twenty nine patients with active plaque psoriasis and 29 healthy controls were analysed for CMV-serostatus, CMV-antigenaemia, frequencies of peripheral CMV-specific T cells and the immunophenotype of peripheral CD8+ T cells. Results: (i) Psoriasis severity was higher in CMV-seropositive patients and positively correlated to the severity of CMV-antigenaemia. (ii) In comparison to CMV-seropositive healthy controls, CMV-seropositive psoriasis patients showed a reduced frequency of circulating CMV-specific T cells that increased under effective antipsoriatic therapy. (iii) The immunophenotype of peripheral CD8+ T cells was dominated by CMV-seroprevalence. (iv) Selective analysis of CMV-seronegative psoriasis patients revealed a strong expansion of a - probably early activated - CD8+ T-cell population with the yet undescribed differentiation phenotype 'CD45RA-dim/CD11a-dim'. Under effective antipsoriatic therapy this population decreased in parallel to an increase of effector differentiated CD8+ T cells. Conclusions: Taken together with our previous results of inflammation-mediated CMV reactivation in psoriasis, our data support the concept of an interactive relationship between psoriasis and CMV infection which may be mediated by peripheral CD8+ T cells.
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Experimental DermatologyISSN
0906-6705Publisher
Blackwell PublishingExternal DOI
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7Volume
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561-567Department affiliated with
- Clinical and Experimental Medicine Publications
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2012-10-23Usage metrics
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