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It could be argued that we understand the immune response to infection with Listeria monocytogenes better than the immunity elicited by any other bacteria. L. monocytogenes are Gram-positive bacteria that are genetically tractable and easy to cultivate in vitro, and the mouse model of intravenous (i.v.) inoculation is highly reproducible. For these reasons, immunologists frequently use the mouse model of systemic listeriosis to dissect the mechanisms used by mammalian hosts to recognize and respond to infection. This article provides an overview of what we have learned over the past few decades and is divided into three sections: "Innate Immunity" describes how the host initially detects the presence of L. monocytogenes and characterizes the soluble and cellular responses that occur during the first few days postinfection; "Adaptive Immunity" discusses the exquisitely specific T cell response that mediates complete clearance of infection and immunological memory; "Use of Attenuated Listeria as a Vaccine Vector" highlights the ways that investigators have exploited our extensive knowledge of anti-Listeria immunity to develop cancer therapeutics.
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Blériot C, Lecuit M. The interplay between regulated necrosis and bacterial infection. Cell Mol Life Sci 2016; 73:2369-78. [PMID: 27048818 PMCID: PMC11108542 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-016-2206-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2016] [Accepted: 03/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Necrosis has long been considered as a passive event resulting from a cell extrinsic stimulus, such as pathogen infection. Recent advances have refined this view and it is now well established that necrosis is tightly regulated at the cell level. Regulated necrosis can occur in the context of host-pathogen interactions, and can either participate in the control of infection or favor it. Here, we review the two main pathways implicated so far in bacteria-associated regulated necrosis: caspase 1-dependent pyroptosis and RIPK1/RIPK3-dependent necroptosis. We present how these pathways are modulated in the context of infection by a series of model bacterial pathogens.
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- Camille Blériot
- Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, 75015, Paris, France
- U1117, Inserm, 75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, 75015, Paris, France.
- U1117, Inserm, 75015, Paris, France.
- French National Reference Center and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Listeria, Institut Pasteur, 75015, Paris, France.
- Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Necker-Pasteur Centre for Infectiology, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, 75015, Paris, France.
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Haschka D, Nairz M, Demetz E, Wienerroither S, Decker T, Weiss G. Contrasting regulation of macrophage iron homeostasis in response to infection with Listeria monocytogenes depending on localization of bacteria. Metallomics 2016; 7:1036-45. [PMID: 25869778 DOI: 10.1039/c4mt00328d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Due to its multiple roles for the proliferation and pathogenicity of many microbes on the one hand and via modulation of immune effector functions on the other hand the control over iron homeostasis is thought to play a decisive role in the course of infections. Diversion of cellular iron traffic is considered as an important defense mechanism of macrophages to reduce metal availability for intracellular bacteria residing in the phagosome. However, evidence is lacking whether such alterations of iron homeostasis also become evident upon infection with bacteria gaining access to the cytosol like Listeria monocytogenes. Here we show that infection of macrophages with L. monocytogenes triggers the expression of the major cellular iron exporter ferroportin1 and induces cellular iron egress. As the growth of Listeria within macrophages is promoted by iron, stimulation of ferroportin1 functionality limits the availability of the metal for Listeria residing in the cytoplasm, whereas ferroportin1 degradation upon hepcidin treatment increases intracellular bacterial growth. In parallel to an increase of ferroportin1 expression, infected macrophages induce anti-microbial immune effector mechanisms such as TNFα formation or NO expression which are aggravated upon iron deficiency. These adaptive changes of iron homeostasis and immune response pathways are only found in macrophages infected with Listeria which express listeriolysin O and are therefore able to escape from the phagosome to the cytoplasm. Listeriolysin O deficient Listeria which are restricted to the phagosome are even killed by excess iron which may be based on "iron intoxification" via macrophage radical formation, because iron supplementation in that setting is paralleled by increased ROS formation. Our results indicate that ferroportin1 mediated iron export is a nutritional immune effector pathway to control infection with Listeria residing in the cytoplasm, whereas a different strategy is observed in mutant Listeria restricted to the phagosome, where iron remains in the macrophages likewise contributing to ROS mediated intoxification of bacteria.
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- David Haschka
- Department of Internal Medicine VI, Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, A - 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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Hawkins JS, Wu Q, Wang Y, Lu CY. Deficits in serum amyloid A contribute to increased neonatal mortality during murine listeriosis. Pediatr Res 2013; 74:668-74. [PMID: 24153400 DOI: 10.1038/pr.2013.164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2012] [Accepted: 04/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND To understand the increased susceptibility of preterm neonates to infection. METHODS A murine listeriosis model using immunohistochemistry, microarray technology, and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). RESULTS We report that recombinant serum amyloid A (SAA) administered prophylactically 18 h before intraperitoneal (i.p.) inoculation with Listeria monocytogenes conferred a dramatic survival benefit compared with administration of only vehicle in neonatal mice. Neonates that received the recombinant SAA protein had significantly fewer Listeria colony counts on plating of infected liver and showed significantly more activated macrophages, but SAA did not affect postnatal growth. Real-time PCR was used to confirm the microarray findings that gene expression levels for the SAA proteins 1 (Saa1) and 2 (Saa2), in addition to that for orosomucoid-2 (Orm2), were strikingly elevated in the adult compared with those in the neonate. Real-time PCR analysis showed that of the acute phase cytokines, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) gene expression increased exponentially with time in the infected adult, whereas neonates did not show similar increases. CONCLUSION The increased susceptibility of neonatal mice to listeriosis is in part mediated by a deficiency in the acute phase response, specifically expression of SAA, and that prophylactic SAA protein before neonatal murine listeriosis results in more macrophage activation, lower Listeria counts, and greater survival.
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- J Seth Hawkins
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Stavru F, Archambaud C, Cossart P. Cell biology and immunology of Listeria monocytogenes infections: novel insights. Immunol Rev 2011; 240:160-84. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.2010.00993.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Clynes R, Herold K, Schmidt AM. RAGE: exacting a toll on the host in response to polymicrobial sepsis and Listeria monocytogenes. Crit Care 2008; 11:183. [PMID: 18190725 PMCID: PMC2246224 DOI: 10.1186/cc6193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE) has complex roles in the immune/inflammatory response. RAGE is expressed on monocytes/macrophages, T and B lymphocytes, and dendritic cells. Previous studies illustrated that homozygous RAGE-/- mice subjected to overwhelming bacterial sepsis displayed normal clearance of pathogenic bacteria and significantly increased survival. In this issue of Critical Care, Lutterloh and colleagues confirm these findings and provide evidence that blocking antibodies to RAGE afford similar protection in mice, even when administration of anti-RAGE is delayed by 24 hours. Furthermore, these authors illustrate that deletion of RAGE is remarkably protective in mice infected with the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. In this Commentary, we consider these findings and propose possible mechanisms by which RAGE exacts a heavy toll on the host in response to polymicrobial sepsis and L. monocytogenes.
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- Raphael Clynes
- Department of Medicine and Microbiology, Columbia University Medical Center, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Reimer T, Schweizer M, Jungi TW. Type I IFN induction in response to Listeria monocytogenes in human macrophages: evidence for a differential activation of IFN regulatory factor 3 (IRF3). THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 179:1166-77. [PMID: 17617610 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.179.2.1166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Listeria monocytogenes is a prototypic bacterium for studying innate and adaptive cellular immunity as well as host defense. Using human monocyte-derived macrophages, we report that an infection with a wild-type strain, but not a listeriolysin O-deficient strain, of the Gram-positive bacterium L. monocytogenes induces expression of IFN-beta and a bioactive type I IFN response. Investigating the activation of signaling pathways in human macrophages after infection revealed that a wild-type strain and a hemolysin-deficient strain of L. monocytogenes activated the NF-kappaB pathway and induced a comparable TNF response. p38 MAPK and activating transcription factor 2 were phosphorylated following infection with either strain, and IFN-beta gene expression induced by wild-type L. monocytogenes was reduced when p38 was inhibited. However, neither IFN regulatory factor (IRF) 3 translocation to the nucleus nor posttranslational modifications and dimerizations were observed after L. monocytogenes infection. In contrast, vesicular stomatitis virus and LPS triggered IRF3 activation and signaling. When IRF3 was knocked down using small interfering RNA, a L. monocytogenes-induced IFN-beta response remained unaffected whereas a vesicular stomatitis virus-triggered response was reduced. Evidence against the possibility that IRF7 acts in place of IRF3 is provided. Thus, we show that wild-type L. monocytogenes induced an IFN-beta response in human macrophages and propose that this response involves p38 MAPK and activating transcription factor 2. Using various stimuli, we show that IRF3 is differentially activated during type I IFN responses in human macrophages.
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- Thornik Reimer
- Institute of Veterinary Virology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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Shaughnessy LM, Lipp P, Lee KD, Swanson JA. Localization of protein kinase C epsilon to macrophage vacuoles perforated by Listeria monocytogenes cytolysin. Cell Microbiol 2007; 9:1695-704. [PMID: 17346313 PMCID: PMC1974810 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.00903.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Three proteins secreted by Listeria monocytogenes facilitate escape from macrophage vacuoles: the cholesterol-dependent cytolysin listeriolysin O (LLO), a phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) and a broad-range phospholipase C (PC-PLC). LLO and PI-PLC can activate several members of the protein kinase C (PKC) family during infection. PKCε is a novel PKC that contributes to macrophage activation, defence against bacterial infection, and phagocytosis; however, a role for PKCε in Lm infections has not been described. To study PKCε dynamics, PKCε-YFP chimeras were visualized in macrophages during Lm infection. PKCε-YFP was recruited to forming vacuoles during macrophage phagocytosis of Lm and again later to fully formed Lm vacuoles. The PKCε-YFP localization to the fully formed Lm vacuole was LLO-dependent but independent of PI-PLC or PC-PLC. PKCε-YFP recruitment often followed LLO perforation of the membrane, as indicated by localization of PKCε-YFP to Lm vacuoles after they released small fluorescent dyes into the cytoplasm. PKCε-YFP recruitment to vesicles also followed phagocytosis of LLO-containing liposomes or osmotic lysis of endocytic vesicles, indicating that vacuole perforation by LLO was the chief cause of the PKCε response. These studies implicate PKCε in a cellular mechanism for recognizing damaged membranous organelles, including the disrupted vacuoles created when Lm escapes into cytoplasm.
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- Lee M Shaughnessy
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, Saarland UniversityHomburg, Germany.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
- *For correspondence. E-mail ; Tel. (+1) 734 647 6339; Fax (+1) 734 764 3562
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Hamilton SE, Badovinac VP, Khanolkar A, Harty JT. Listeriolysin O-deficient Listeria monocytogenes as a vaccine delivery vehicle: antigen-specific CD8 T cell priming and protective immunity. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 177:4012-20. [PMID: 16951364 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.6.4012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Strains of Listeria monocytogenes (LM) that are deficient in the virulence factor listeriolysin O (LLO) are highly attenuated and are thought not to elicit protective immunity. This failure has been attributed to the inability of the bacterium to enter the host cell cytosol and access MHC class I Ag processing machinery. We reexamined this issue using recombinant strains of LM that are deficient in LLO but express an additional CD8 T cell epitope derived from lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. After infection with LLO-deficient strains, we find sizable priming of epitope-specific CD8 T cells and the development of a functional memory cell population. Mice primed with the LLO-deficient LM strain are equally resistant against high-dose challenge with virulent LM as mice primed with wild-type virulent bacteria and also resist heterologous challenge with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. Interestingly, priming with a low dose of LLO-deficient LM, which occurred in environment of reduced inflammation (IFN-gamma), allowed rapid amplification of Ag-specific CD8 T cells by booster immunization, despite an undetectable primary response. We conclude that the generation of protective immunity by LLO-deficient strains of LM does in fact occur and that this highly attenuated LM strain may be a useful platform for vaccine delivery.
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- Sara E Hamilton
- Department of Microbiology and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Kaye PM, Svensson M, Ato M, Maroof A, Polley R, Stager S, Zubairi S, Engwerda CR. The immunopathology of experimental visceral leishmaniasis. Immunol Rev 2005; 201:239-53. [PMID: 15361245 DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.00188.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Experimental murine infection with the parasites that cause human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) results in the establishment of infection in the liver, spleen, and bone marrow. In most strains of mice, parasites are eventually cleared from the liver, and hepatic resistance to infection results from a coordinated host response involving a broad range of effector and regulatory pathways targeted within defined tissue structures called granulomas. In contrast, parasites persist in the spleen and bone marrow by mechanisms that are less well understood. Parasite persistence is accompanied by the failure of granuloma formation and by a variety of pathologic changes, including splenomegaly, disruption of lymphoid tissue microarchitecture, and enhanced hematopoietic activity. Here, we review the salient features of these distinct tissue responses and highlight the varied roles that cytokines of the tumor necrosis factor family play in immunity to this infection. In addition, we also discuss recent studies aimed at understanding how splenomegaly affects the survival and function of memory cells specific for heterologous antigens, an issue of considerable importance for our understanding of the disease-associated increase in secondary infections characteristic of human VL.
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- Paul M Kaye
- Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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Baldwin DN, Vanchinathan V, Brown PO, Theriot JA. A gene-expression program reflecting the innate immune response of cultured intestinal epithelial cells to infection by Listeria monocytogenes. Genome Biol 2003; 4:R2. [PMID: 12537547 PMCID: PMC151283 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-4-1-r2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2002] [Revised: 06/14/2002] [Accepted: 11/14/2002] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive, facultative, intracellular bacterial pathogen found in soil, which occasionally causes serious food-borne disease in humans. The outcome of an infection is dependent on the state of the infected individual's immune system, neutrophils being key players in clearing the microorganism from the body. The first line of host defense, however, is the intestinal epithelium. RESULTS We have examined the transcriptional response of cultured human intestinal epithelial cells to infection by L. monocytogenes, which replicates in the host cell cytoplasm and spreads from cell to cell using a form of actin-based motility. We found that the predominant host response to infection was mediated by NFkappaB. To determine whether any host responses were due to recognition of specific virulence factors during infection, we also examined the transcriptional response to two bacterial mutants; actA which is defective in actin-based motility, and prfA, which is defective in the expression of all L. monocytogenes virulence genes. Remarkably, we found no detectable difference in the host transcriptional response to the wild-type and mutant bacteria. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that cultured intestinal epithelial cells are capable of mounting and recruiting a powerful innate immune response to L. monocytogenes infection. Our results imply that L. monocytogenes is not specifically detected in the host cytoplasm of Caco-2 cells by intracellular signals. This suggests that entry of bacteria is mediated in the host cell post-translationally, and that these bacteria seek the cytosol not only for the nutrient-rich environment, but also for protection from detection by the immune system.
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- David N Baldwin
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Beckman Center, 279 West Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Beckman Center, 279 West Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Beckman Center, 279 West Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Beckman Center, 279 West Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Beckman Center, 279 West Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Beckman Center, 279 West Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Lu CY, Penfield JG, Kielar ML, Vazquez MA, Jeyarajah DR. Hypothesis: is renal allograft rejection initiated by the response to injury sustained during the transplant process? Kidney Int 1999; 55:2157-68. [PMID: 10354265 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.00491.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Allograft rejection can be caused by numerous factors such as damage to the donor kidney during surgical removal or implantation, injury sustained during the transport process between the donor and recipient, and suboptimal allograft perfusion during the intra- and post-operative period. In cadaveric allografts, damage can occur during cold storage, during the transit stage between donor and recipient, and hemodynamic instability due to the initial damage that caused its removal from the donor (such as brain death or trauma). We hypothesize that rejection requires recognition of this injury in addition to recognition of alloantigens. If indeed injury proves to be one factor in acute rejection episodes, then therapeutic efforts can be made to reduce injury during the transplantation process.
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- C Y Lu
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dallas, Texas, USA.
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Jeyarajah DR, Kielar M, Penfield J, Lu CY. Docosahexaenoic acid, a component of fish oil, inhibits nitric oxide production in vitro. J Surg Res 1999; 83:147-50. [PMID: 10329109 DOI: 10.1006/jsre.1999.5586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) has been shown to be immunosuppressive in the fetus, and fish oil diets are thought to be beneficial in autoimmune disease and transplantation. This effect may be mediated through nitric oxide (NO). Here, we investigate the effect of DHA on murine macrophages. METHODS Peritoneal macrophages were subjected to stimulation with various concentrations of interferon gamma-(IFN-gamma) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). NO production was assessed by measuring nitrite (Greiss reaction). RESULTS At all doses of IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha, DHA was found to be inhibitory to NO production. CONCLUSIONS DHA inhibits macrophage-stimulated NO production in response to IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha. As NO is thought to be important in several disease processes, DHA may be a useful agent in the treatment of conditions such as autoimmune disease.
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- D R Jeyarajah
- Department of Surgery, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75235-9156, USA
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Barsig J, Kaufmann SH. The mechanism of cell death in Listeria monocytogenes-infected murine macrophages is distinct from apoptosis. Infect Immun 1997; 65:4075-81. [PMID: 9317010 PMCID: PMC175586 DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.10.4075-4081.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Various pathogenic bacteria with the capacity to live within eukaryotic cells activate an apoptotic program in infected host cells. Induction of apoptosis by Listeria monocytogenes in murine dendritic cells and hepatocytes has been described. Here we address the questions of whether and how the pathogen kills macrophages, its most important habitat. Employing several complementary techniques aimed at discriminating between apoptosis and necrosis, we show that murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMM) undergo delayed necrosis but not apoptosis when infected with listeriolysin (Hly)-producing L. monocytogenes. This pathogen failed to elicit apoptotic morphology, DNA fragmentation, and surface annexin V binding of macrophages, in contrast to Shigella flexneri infection or gliotoxin treatment, which were used as positive controls. Furthermore, macrophages infected with L. monocytogenes released lower quantities of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) than did Shigella flexneri-infected ones, indicating diminished or even absent activation of IL-1-converting enzyme in macrophages harboring L. monocytogenes. We conclude that murine BMM die by necrosis after several hours of cytoplasmic replication of L. monocytogenes. The pathogen may benefit from this feature by the possibility of taking advantage of cells of "pseudo-healthy" appearance, thus avoiding rapid elimination by other phagocytes.
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- J Barsig
- Department of Immunology, University of Ulm, Germany
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Mielke ME, Peters C, Hahn H. Cytokines in the induction and expression of T-cell-mediated granuloma formation and protection in the murine model of listeriosis. Immunol Rev 1997; 158:79-93. [PMID: 9314076 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1997.tb00994.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Lymphocyte-mediated inflammation is a hallmark of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis. Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis and sarcoidosis. However, this type of inflammation probably developed under evolutionary pressure from pathogenic microorganisms, such as mycobacteria and other intracellular infective agents. One such pathogen, the gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes), induces a cascade of tissue alterations that ultimately results in the eradication of the bacteria associated with a granulomatous response. Consequently, murine listeriosis has been established as a model to analyze not only T-cell-dependent antibacterial protection but also T-cell-mediated mononuclear inflammation in parenchymal organs. Extensive studies of the molecular basis of the latter phenomenon led to the conclusion that the most decisive step from non-specific microabscess formation to granulomatous inflammation is the activation of non-specifically invading CD4+ T cells, which results in high local concentrations of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma in the presence of IL-2. This in turn induces CD11b-independent mechanisms of intraparenchymal monocyte accumulation. Because any attempt to neutralize the effects of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma to modulate T-cell-mediated inflammation will also dramatically decrease host resistance, other anti-inflammatory strategies based on the modulation of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma-induced mechanisms of monocyte accumulation must be developed. Recalling the classical work by Dienes & Schoenheit on the induction of bacterial allergies (1), the cytokine phenotype of granuloma formation also has implications as regards the most potent adjuvant environment for the development of a T-cell response. The murine listeriosis model is the basis for all conclusions in this article on the role of cytokines in the induction and expression of T-cell-mediated inflammation and, as we will show, promises to yield still more insights into the rational design of vaccines.
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- M E Mielke
- Institute of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany.
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Unanue ER. Inter-relationship among macrophages, natural killer cells and neutrophils in early stages of Listeria resistance. Curr Opin Immunol 1997; 9:35-43. [PMID: 9039774 DOI: 10.1016/s0952-7915(97)80156-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Reports in the past few years have shown the involvement of different cells and cytokines in controlling the infection with the intracellular facultative pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. A synergistic interaction of T-cell-independent and -dependent processes takes place but the nature of these interactions and of the relevant cells and cytokines depends on both the stage of the infection and the tissue that is involved.
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- E R Unanue
- Department of Pathology, Center for Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8118, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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