Intestinal tuft cell immune privilege enables norovirus persistence
Strine M, Fagerberg E, Darcy P, Barrón G, Filler R, Alfajaro M, D'Angelo-Gavrish N, Wang F, Graziano V, Menasché B, Damo M, Wang Y, Howitt M, Lee S, Joshi N, Mucida D, Wilen C. Intestinal tuft cell immune privilege enables norovirus persistence. Science Immunology 2024, 9: eadi7038. PMID: 38517952, PMCID: PMC11555782, DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adi7038.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCD8<sup>+</sup> T cellsIntestinal tuft cellsT cellsTufted cellsViral persistenceSite of viral persistenceChemosensory epithelial cellsNormal antigen presentationImmune-privileged nicheIntestinal stem cellsMemory phenotypeImmune privilegeImmune escapeReporter miceAntigen presentationChronic infectionCytotoxic capacityEpithelial cellsNorovirus infectionStem cellsCell interactionsInfectionCell survivalEnteric microbesCellsTuft-cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic mediators of norovirus tropism regulate viral immunity
Strine M, Alfajaro M, Graziano V, Song J, Hsieh L, Hill R, Guo J, VanDussen K, Orchard R, Baldridge M, Lee S, Wilen C. Tuft-cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic mediators of norovirus tropism regulate viral immunity. Cell Reports 2022, 41: 111593. PMID: 36351394, PMCID: PMC9662704, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111593.Peer-Reviewed Original Research