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HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) are thought to play a major role in viral control in HIV-infected adults. Changes in the relative proportions of CD8 lymphocyte subpopulations are also thought to be associated with disease progression. Less is known about the relative effectiveness of CTL against different HIV targets, or about the relationship, if any, between CTL activity and CD8 subpopulations. We have measured CTL activity against four HIV gene products (gag, tat, pol and env) and expression of CD45RO, CD45RA, HLA-DR, CD29, S6F1, and CD57 surface markers on CD8 cells from nine HIV-infected and 11 HIV-uninfected children. Of nine HIV-infected children, six showed antigen-specific CTL activity on at least one occasion: 4/6 directed against tat, 6/6 against pol, 1/6 against env, and 1/6 against gag. However, the specificity of the CTL activity varied between children and within individual children with time. Furthermore, two uninfected children showed CTL activity, one to HIV-gag, -pol and -tat, and the other to HIV-pol. All the HIV-infected and two uninfected children had abnormal proportions of CD8 subpopulations in whole blood compared with age-matched controls. There was no correlation between CTL activity and CD8 subsets in whole blood. Five children changed from CTL-positive to CTL-negative (or vice versa) during the study. In these, the occasions when CTL activity was detected coincided with an increase in CD8 cells, an expansion of HLA-DR+ CD8 cells and a loss of CD45RA+ CD8 cells.
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