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Upadhyay R, Dua B, Sharma B, Natrajan M, Jain AK, Kithiganahalli Narayanaswamy B, Joshi B. Transcription factors STAT-4, STAT-6 and CREB regulate Th1/Th2 response in leprosy patients: effect of M. leprae antigens. BMC Infect Dis 2019; 19:52. [PMID: 30642265 PMCID: PMC6332553 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-018-3601-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 12/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Leprosy is an ideal human disease to study T cell regulation as patients show correlation between cytokine skewed Th1-Th2 responses and clinical forms of the disease. The Role of transcription factors on the modulation of Th1 and Th2 responses by M. leprae antigens has not been adequately studied. In the present study, we studied the effect of M. leprae antigens on transcription factors STAT-4, STAT-6 and CREB and their correlation with Th1/Th2 cell mediated immune responses in leprosy. Methods Leprosy patients of both categories of tuberculoid leprosy (BT/TT) and lepromatous leprosy (BL/LL) were selected from the OPD of NJ1L & OMD, (ICMR), Agra and healthy individuals (H) were chosen from the staff and students working in the institute. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of the study subjects were stimulated with M. leprae antigens (WCL, MLSA, and PGL-1). Sandwich ELISA was done in the culture supernatants of healthy and leprosy patients to detect IL-4, IL-10 and IFN-γ. Further, expression of IFN-γ and IL-4 and activation of STAT4, STAT6 and CREB transcription factors in CD4+ T cell with or without stimulation of M. leprae antigens was investigated by flow cytometry. Results Lepromatous leprosy patients showed significantly lower IFN-γ and higher IL-4 levels in culture supernatant and significantly low expression of IFN-γ and higher expression of IL-4 by CD4+ T cells than healthy individuals with or without antigenic stimulation. Antigenic stimulation significantly increased IL-10 in BL/LL patients but not in BT/TT patients or healthy individuals. PGL-1 stimulation led to significantly higher activation of STAT-6 in BT/TT and BL/LL patients in comparison to healthy individuals. All the three antigens led to activation of CREB in healthy and BT/TT patients but not in BL/LL patients. Conclusion Our findings show that M. leprae antigens differentially modulate activation of T cell transcription factors STAT-4/STAT-6 and CREB. These transcription factors are well known to regulate Th1 and Th2 mediated immune response which in turn could play vital role in the clinical manifestations of leprosy. These observations may help to determine how these T cell transcription factors affect the development of immune dysfunction and whether these new pathways have a role in immunomodulation in intracellular diseases like leprosy and TB.
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- Rajni Upadhyay
- Department of Immunology, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR), Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India
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- Department of Immunology, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR), Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India
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- Department of Immunology, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR), Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India
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- Clinical Division, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & OMD, Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India
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- Department of Zoology, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, 474001, India
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- Department of Immunology, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR), Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India.
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Ma Y, Pei Q, Zhang L, Lu J, Shui T, Chen J, Shi C, Yang J, Smith M, Liu Y, Zhu J, Yang D. Live Mycobacterium leprae inhibits autophagy and apoptosis of infected macrophages and prevents engulfment of host cell by phagocytes. Am J Transl Res 2018; 10:2929-2939. [PMID: 30323879 PMCID: PMC6176229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2017] [Accepted: 09/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Previous studies demonstrated that live Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) infection promoted macrophage differentiation toward the M2 type, with elevated interleukin (IL)-10 production. The underlying mechanism is not entirely clear. In this study, we treated macrophages with primary M. leprae strains isolated from both lepromatous leprosy (L-lep) and tuberculoid leprosy (T-lep) patients. We found that infection by live M. leprae, regardless of the primary strain, resulted in M2 skewing in the infected macrophage. This skewing was associated with downregulated IRGM expression, a core organizer protein in the autophagy assembly and reduced autophagosome formation, and with lower annexin V staining and lower caspase 3 and caspase 9 activity. Moreover, live M. leprae-infected macrophages prevented efficient phagocytosis by uninfected bystander macrophages. As a result, the phagocytes secreted less pro-inflammatory cytokines, and preferentially primed anti-inflammatory T cell responses. Together, these results suggested that live M. leprae could employ a strain-independent mechanism to suppress inflammation, possibly involving the inhibition of autophagy and apoptosis in the infected macrophages.
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- Yuelong Ma
- Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of MedicineShanghai 200443, China
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- Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of MedicineShanghai 200443, China
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- Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of MedicineShanghai 200443, China
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- Shiping County People’s HospitalYunnan 662200, China
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- Yunnan Center for Disease Control and PreventionYunnan 650022, China
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- Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of MedicineShanghai 200443, China
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- Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of MedicineShanghai 200443, China
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- Yunnan Center for Disease Control and PreventionYunnan 650022, China
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- DICAT Biomedical Computation CentreBritish Columbia, Canada
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- Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of MedicineShanghai 200443, China
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- Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of MedicineShanghai 200443, China
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- Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of MedicineShanghai 200443, China
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Ma Y, Zhang L, Lu J, Shui T, Chen J, Yang J, Yuan J, Liu Y, Yang D. A Negative Feedback Loop Between Autophagy and Immune Responses in Mycobacterium leprae Infection. DNA Cell Biol 2016; 36:1-9. [PMID: 27854511 DOI: 10.1089/dna.2016.3446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The obligate intracellular bacterium Mycobacterium leprae is the causative agent of leprosy and primarily infects macrophages, leading to irreversible nerve damage and deformities. So far, the underlying reasons allowing M. leprae to persist and propagate in macrophages, despite the presence of cellular immunity, are still a mystery. Here, we investigated the role of autophagy, a cellular process that degrades cytosolic materials and intracellular pathogens, in M. leprae infection. We found that live M. leprae infection of macrophages resulted in significantly elevated autophagy level. However, macrophages with high autophagy levels preferentially expressed lower levels of proinflammatory cytokines, including interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, IL-12, and tumor necrosis factor-α, and preferentially primed anti-inflammatory T cells responses, characterized by high IL-10 and low interferon-γ, granzyme B, and perforin responses. These anti-inflammatory T cells could suppress further induction of autophagy, leading to improved survival of intracellular M. leprae in infected macrophages. Therefore, these data demonstrated that although autophagy had a role in eliminating intracellular pathogens, the induction of autophagy resulted in anti-inflammatory immune responses, which suppressed autophagy in a negative feedback loop and allowed the persistence of M. leprae.
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- Yuelong Ma
- 1 Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine , Shanghai, China
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- 1 Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine , Shanghai, China
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- 2 Shiping County People's Hospital , Yunnan, China
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- 3 Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention , Yunnan, China
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- 1 Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine , Shanghai, China
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- 3 Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention , Yunnan, China
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- 4 DICAT Biomedical Computation Centre , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- 1 Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine , Shanghai, China
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- 1 Institute of Photomedicine, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine , Shanghai, China
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Yang D, Shui T, Miranda JW, Gilson DJ, Song Z, Chen J, Shi C, Zhu J, Yang J, Jing Z. Mycobacterium leprae-Infected Macrophages Preferentially Primed Regulatory T Cell Responses and Was Associated with Lepromatous Leprosy. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2016; 10:e0004335. [PMID: 26751388 PMCID: PMC4713426 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Accepted: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The persistence of Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) infection is largely dependent on the types of host immune responses being induced. Macrophage, a crucial modulator of innate and adaptive immune responses, could be directly infected by M. leprae. We therefore postulated that M. leprae-infected macrophages might have altered immune functions. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here, we treated monocyte-derived macrophages with live or killed M. leprae, and examined their activation status and antigen presentation. We found that macrophages treated with live M. leprae showed committed M2-like function, with decreased interleukin 1 beta (IL-1beta), IL-6, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and MHC class II molecule expression and elevated IL-10 and CD163 expression. When incubating with naive T cells, macrophages treated with live M. leprae preferentially primed regulatory T (Treg) cell responses with elevated FoxP3 and IL-10 expression, while interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) expression and CD8+ T cell cytotoxicity were reduced. Chromium release assay also found that live M. leprae-treated macrophages were more resistant to CD8+ T cell-mediated cytotoxicity than sonicated M. leprae-treated monocytes. Ex vivo studies showed that the phenotype and function of monocytes and macrophages had clear differences between L-lep and T-lep patients, consistent with the in vitro findings. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Together, our data demonstrate that M. leprae could utilize infected macrophages by two mechanisms: firstly, M. leprae-infected macrophages preferentially primed Treg but not Th1 or cytotoxic T cell responses; secondly, M. leprae-infected macrophages were more effective at evading CD8+ T cell-mediated cytotoxicity.
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- Degang Yang
- Shanghai Dermatology Hospital, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming, P. R. China
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- Ian Therapeutics and Research Lab, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Ian Therapeutics and Research Lab, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- BGC Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Dermatology Hospital, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Dermatology Hospital, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Dermatology Hospital, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming, P. R. China
- * E-mail: (JY); (ZJ)
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- Shanghai Dermatology Hospital, Shanghai, P. R. China
- * E-mail: (JY); (ZJ)
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Nerve damage leading to impairment and permanent disability is the major problem in the course of a leprosy infection. Most of the damage occurs during two types of leprosy reactions, type 1 reaction (T1R) and type 2 reaction (T2R). Timely and adequate treatment may prevent this damage. Particular T1R reactions, however, are often diagnosed too late and are even missed. Clinical symptoms and warning signs are therefore covered, as are the immunology and pathophysiology of nerve damage. The differences between upgrading and downgrading, old terms but still relevant, are explained. Methods to detect reactions and to monitor their treatment are given. Triggering factors, the mechanisms of the reactions, including autoimmunity, and the presence of physical compression are discussed. Treatment over the years is placed in its context, and based on this information a treatment schedule is recommended.
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- Bernard Naafs
- The Foundation of Global Dermatology, The Netherlands.
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Chaitanya VS, Jadhav RS, Lavania M, Singh M, Valluri V, Sengupta U. Interleukin-17F single-nucleotide polymorphism (7488T>C) and its association with susceptibility to leprosy. Int J Immunogenet 2013; 41:131-7. [DOI: 10.1111/iji.12097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2013] [Revised: 05/26/2013] [Accepted: 09/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- V. S. Chaitanya
- Stanley Browne Research Laboratory; The Leprosy Mission Community Hospital; New Delhi India
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- Department of Microbiology; Government Institute of Science; Mumbai India
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- Stanley Browne Research Laboratory; The Leprosy Mission Community Hospital; New Delhi India
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- Lala Ramaswarup Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; New Delhi India
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- Blue Peter Public Health & Research Centre (BPHRC) LEPRA India - BPHRC; Hyderabad India
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- Consultant Scientist and Head, Stanley Browne Laboratory; The Leprosy Mission Community Hospital; New Delhi India
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Following their discovery in the early 1970s, classical human leukocyte antigen (HLA) loci have been the prototypical candidates for genetic susceptibility to infectious disease. Indeed, the original hypothesis for the extreme variability observed at HLA loci (H-2 in mice) was the major selective pressure from infectious diseases. Now that both the human genome and the molecular basis of innate and acquired immunity are understood in greater detail, do the classical HLA loci still stand out as major genes that determine susceptibility to infectious disease? This review looks afresh at the evidence supporting a role for classical HLA loci in susceptibility to infectious disease, examines the limitations of data reported to date, and discusses current advances in methodology and technology that will potentially lead to greater understanding of their role in infectious diseases in the future.
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- Jenefer M Blackwell
- Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, P.O. Box 855, West Perth, Western Australia, Australia 6872.
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Following their discovery in the early 1970s, classical human leukocyte antigen (HLA) loci have been the prototypical candidates for genetic susceptibility to infectious disease. Indeed, the original hypothesis for the extreme variability observed at HLA loci (H-2 in mice) was the major selective pressure from infectious diseases. Now that both the human genome and the molecular basis of innate and acquired immunity are understood in greater detail, do the classical HLA loci still stand out as major genes that determine susceptibility to infectious disease? This review looks afresh at the evidence supporting a role for classical HLA loci in susceptibility to infectious disease, examines the limitations of data reported to date, and discusses current advances in methodology and technology that will potentially lead to greater understanding of their role in infectious diseases in the future.
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- Jenefer M Blackwell
- Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, P.O. Box 855, West Perth, Western Australia, Australia 6872.
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Mukai T, Maeda Y, Tamura T, Miyamoto Y, Makino M. CD4+T-cell activation by antigen-presenting cells infected with urease-deficient recombinantMycobacterium bovisbacillus Calmette-Guérin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 53:96-106. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.2008.00407.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Scollard DM, Adams LB, Gillis TP, Krahenbuhl JL, Truman RW, Williams DL. The continuing challenges of leprosy. Clin Microbiol Rev 2006; 19:338-81. [PMID: 16614253 PMCID: PMC1471987 DOI: 10.1128/cmr.19.2.338-381.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 519] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Leprosy is best understood as two conjoined diseases. The first is a chronic mycobacterial infection that elicits an extraordinary range of cellular immune responses in humans. The second is a peripheral neuropathy that is initiated by the infection and the accompanying immunological events. The infection is curable but not preventable, and leprosy remains a major global health problem, especially in the developing world, publicity to the contrary notwithstanding. Mycobacterium leprae remains noncultivable, and for over a century leprosy has presented major challenges in the fields of microbiology, pathology, immunology, and genetics; it continues to do so today. This review focuses on recent advances in our understanding of M. leprae and the host response to it, especially concerning molecular identification of M. leprae, knowledge of its genome, transcriptome, and proteome, its mechanisms of microbial resistance, and recognition of strains by variable-number tandem repeat analysis. Advances in experimental models include studies in gene knockout mice and the development of molecular techniques to explore the armadillo model. In clinical studies, notable progress has been made concerning the immunology and immunopathology of leprosy, the genetics of human resistance, mechanisms of nerve injury, and chemotherapy. In nearly all of these areas, however, leprosy remains poorly understood compared to other major bacterial diseases.
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- D M Scollard
- Laboratory Research Branch, National Hansen's Disease Programs, LSU-SVM, Skip Bertman Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
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Méndez-Tovar LJ, Mondragón-González R, Vega-López F, Dockrell HM, Hay R, López-Martínez R, Manzano-Gayosso P, Hernández-Hernández F, Padilla-Desgarennes C, Bonifaz A. Cytokine production and lymphocyte proliferation in patients with Nocardia brasiliensis actinomycetoma. Mycopathologia 2004; 158:407-14. [PMID: 15630549 DOI: 10.1007/s11046-004-3126-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2004] [Accepted: 09/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha, IL-4, IL-10 and IL-12 concentrations in the supernatant of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) cultures and the in vitro proliferation of PBMC were studied in 25 patients with actinomycetoma caused by Nocardia brasiliensis and in 10 healthy controls from endemic zones. Cell cultures were stimulated by a N. brasiliensis crude cytoplasmic antigen (NB) and five semi-purified protein fractions (NB2, NB4, NB6, NB8, and NB10) separated by isoelectric. Phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and purified protein derivative (PPD) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were used as control antigens. Skin tests were performed by injecting 0.1 ml of candidin and PPD intradermally (ID). Patients showed a poor response to tuberculin, while their response to candidin was more than two fold greater than that observed in the controls. Cell proliferation showed no statistically significant differences in either group. IFN-gamma production was higher in the healthy controls than in the patients, whereas TNF-alpha secretion was slightly higher in the patients' cultures. IL-4 was detected in the patients' cultures but not in the controls. IL-10 and IL-12 were present at low concentrations in both groups. These results suggest that patients with actinomycetoma show normal antigen recognition, but with low IFN-gamma production, and higher concentrations of IL-4, IL-10 and TNF-alpha in the patients' PBMC cultures, indicating that they probably have a Th2 type of immune response.
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- Luis J Méndez-Tovar
- Unidad de Investigación Médica en Dermatología y Micología, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS, México.
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Yamashita Y, Maeda Y, Takeshita F, Brennan PJ, Makino M. Role of the polypeptide region of a 33kDa mycobacterial lipoprotein for efficient IL-12 production. Cell Immunol 2004; 229:13-20. [PMID: 15331324 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2004.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2004] [Accepted: 06/02/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mycobacterium leprae lipoprotein, LpK, induced IL-12 production from human monocytes. To determine the components essential for cytokine production and the relative role of lipidation in the activation process, we produced lipidated and non-lipidated truncated forms of LpK. While 0.5nM of lipidated LpK-a having N-terminal 60 amino acids of LpK produced more than 700pg/ml IL-12 p40, the non-lipidated LpK-b having the same amino acids as that of LpK-a required more than 20nM of the protein to produce an equivalent dose of cytokine. Truncated protein having the C-terminal 192 amino acids of LpK did not induce any cytokine production. Fifty nanomolar of the synthetic lipopeptide of LpK produced only about 200pg/ml IL-12. Among the truncated LpK, only LpK-a and lipopeptide stimulated NF-kB-dependent reporter activity in TLR-2 transfectant. However, when monocytes were stimulated with lipopeptide in the presence of non-lipidated protein, they produced IL-12 synergistically. Therefore, both peptide regions of LpK and lipid residues are necessary for efficient IL-12 production.
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- Yasuko Yamashita
- Department of Microbiology, Leprosy Research Center,National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-2-1 Aobacho,Higashimurayama, Tokyo 189-0002, Japan
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Kirkaldy AA, Musonda AC, Khanolkhar-Young S, Suneetha S, Lockwood DNJ. Expression of CC and CXC chemokines and chemokine receptors in human leprosy skin lesions. Clin Exp Immunol 2004; 134:447-53. [PMID: 14632750 PMCID: PMC1808882 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2003.02306.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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We have investigated the expression of chemokines and their receptors in leprosy skin lesions using immunohistochemistry. Skin biopsies from 25 leprosy patients across the leprosy spectrum, 11 patients undergoing type I reversal reactions and four normal donors were immunostained by ABC peroxidase method using antibodies against CC and CXC chemokines and their receptors. Using an in situ hybridization technique we have also studied the expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1), RANTES and interleukin (IL)-8 chemokines mRNA in leprosy skin lesions. Chemokines and receptor expression was detected in all leprosy skin biopsies. Expression of CC chemokines MCP-1 (P < 0.01) and RANTES (P < 0.01) were elevated significantly in borderline tuberculoid leprosy in reversal reaction compared to non-reactional borderline tuberculoid leprosy, but there was no difference in the expression of IL-8 chemokine. Surprisingly, there was no significant difference in the expression of CC (CCR2 and CCR5) and CXC (CXCR2) chemokine receptors across the leprosy spectrum. Similarly, there was no significant difference in the expression of mRNA for MCP-1, regulated upon activation normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) and IL-8 chemokines. Here, the presence of a neutrophil chemoattractant IL-8 in leprosy lesions, which do not contain neutrophils, suggests strongly a role of IL-8 as a monocyte and lymphocyte recruiter in leprosy lesions. These results suggest that the chemokines and their receptors, which are known to chemoattract T lymphocytes and macrophages, are involved in assembling the cellular infiltrate found in lesions across the leprosy spectrum.
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- A A Kirkaldy
- Clinical Research Unit, Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Maeda Y, Gidoh M, Ishii N, Mukai C, Makino M. Assessment of cell mediated immunogenicity of Mycobacterium leprae-derived antigens. Cell Immunol 2003; 222:69-77. [PMID: 12798309 DOI: 10.1016/s0008-8749(03)00078-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The antigenicity of Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae)-derived cell membrane fraction was examined using human dendritic cells (DCs). Immature DCs internalized and processed the cell membrane components, and expressed M. leprae-derived antigens (Ags) on their surface. The expression of MHC class II, CD86, and CD83 Ags on DCs and CD40 ligand (L)-associated IL-12 p70 production from DCs were up-regulated by the membrane Ags. Moreover these stimulated DCs induced significantly higher level of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) production by autologous CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells than those pulsed with equivalent doses of live M. leprae or its cytosol fraction. Both subsets of T cells from tuberculoid leprosy patients also produced several fold more IFN-gamma than those from normal individuals. Furthermore, the intracellular perforin production in CD8(+) T cells was up-regulated in an Ag-dose dependent manner. These results suggest that M. leprae membrane Ags might be useful as the vaccinating agents against leprosy.
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- Yumi Maeda
- Department of Microbiology, Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-2-1 Aoba-cho, Higashimurayama, 189-0002, Tokyo, Japan
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Maeda Y, Makino M, Crick DC, Mahapatra S, Srisungnam S, Takii T, Kashiwabara Y, Brennan PJ. Novel 33-kilodalton lipoprotein from Mycobacterium leprae. Infect Immun 2002; 70:4106-11. [PMID: 12117918 PMCID: PMC128180 DOI: 10.1128/iai.70.8.4106-4111.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2002] [Revised: 04/04/2002] [Accepted: 05/01/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A novel Mycobacterium leprae lipoprotein LpK (accession no. ML0603) was identified from the genomic database. The 1,116-bp open reading frame encodes a 371-amino-acid precursor protein with an N-terminal signal sequence and a consensus motif for lipid conjugation. Expression of the protein, LpK, in Escherichia coli revealed a 33-kDa protein, and metabolic labeling experiments and globomycin treatment proved that the protein was lipidated. Fractionation of M. leprae demonstrated that this lipoprotein was a membrane protein of M. leprae. The purified lipoprotein was found to induce production of interleukin-12 in human peripheral blood monocytes. The studies imply that M. leprae LpK is involved in protective immunity against leprosy and may be a candidate for vaccine design.
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- Yumi Maeda
- Department of Microbiology, Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Higashimurayama, Tokyo 189-0002, Japan.
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Spencer JS, Marques MAM, Lima MCBS, Junqueira-Kipnis AP, Gregory BC, Truman RW, Brennan PJ. Antigenic specificity of the Mycobacterium leprae homologue of ESAT-6. Infect Immun 2002; 70:1010-3. [PMID: 11796642 PMCID: PMC127711 DOI: 10.1128/iai.70.2.1010-1013.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The sequence of the Mycobacterium leprae homologue of ESAT-6 shows only 36% amino acid correspondence to that from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Anti-M. leprae ESAT-6 polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies and T-cell hybridomas reacted only with the homologous protein and allowed identification of the B- and T-cell epitopes. The protein is expressed in M. leprae and appears in the cell wall fraction. Thus, M. leprae ESAT-6 shows promise as a specific diagnostic agent for leprosy.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibody Specificity
- Antigens, Bacterial/biosynthesis
- Antigens, Bacterial/genetics
- Antigens, Bacterial/immunology
- Antigens, Bacterial/isolation & purification
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cloning, Molecular
- Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Leprosy/prevention & control
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mycobacterium leprae/genetics
- Mycobacterium leprae/immunology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/immunology
- Sequence Analysis, Protein
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Subcellular Fractions
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- John S Spencer
- Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1677, USA.
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Collins MT, Lisby G, Moser C, Chicks D, Christensen S, Reichelderfer M, Høiby N, Harms BA, Thomsen OO, Skibsted U, Binder V. Results of multiple diagnostic tests for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and in controls. J Clin Microbiol 2000; 38:4373-81. [PMID: 11101567 PMCID: PMC87608 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.12.4373-4381.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis has been incriminated as a cause of Crohn's disease (CD); however, studies to date have been relatively small and generally only used a single diagnostic assay. The objective of the study was to reexamine the association of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis and CD using multiple diagnostic tests. Five methods were used to detect M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis infections in 439 inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients and 324 control subjects in the United States and Denmark. Most assays were adaptations of diagnostic tests for this infection performed routinely on animals. PCR for IS900, a genetic element unique to M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis, was positive significantly more often on resected bowel and lymph node tissues from CD patients (19.0%) and ulcerative colitis (UC) patients (26.2%) than from controls (6. 3%) (P < 0.05). Positive IS900 PCR results occurred more often in U. S. than in Danish IBD patients, 32.0 versus 13.3% (P = 0.025). The majority of Danish patients were bacillus Calmette-Guérin (Mycobacterium bovis BCG) vaccinated (CD, 77.5%; UC, 86.6%; controls, 83.0%) whereas none of the U.S. patients with IBD and only 2% of U. S. controls were vaccinated. Among Danish IBD patients, positive PCR findings were four times more common among subjects who were not BCG vaccinated (33.3%) than among BCG vaccinates (8.8%, P = 0.02). Culture of the same tissues tested by PCR using modified BACTEC 12B medium failed to grow M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis from patients or controls. U.S. CD patients had the highest serological evidence (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA] for serum antibodies) of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection (20.7% of patients positive) which was higher than for all UC patients studied (6.1%) or healthy controls (3.8%, P < 0.005). Among Danish patients alone, however, no significant differences in rates of ELISA-positive results among CD, UC, or control patients were found. For 181 study subjects, both IS900 PCR and ELISA were performed. Although 11 were ELISA positive and 36 were PCR positive, in no instance was a patient positive by both tests, suggesting that these states are mutually exclusive. Evaluation of cytokine-mediated immune responses of IBD patients was complicated by the influence of immunosuppressive therapy given most IBD patients. Gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) release by peripheral blood leukocytes after M. avium purified protein derivative PPD antigen stimulation showed significantly lower responses in CD patients than in UC patients or controls in both U.S. (by ex vivo assay) and Danish (by in vitro assay) populations (P < 0.05). Interleukin-5 responses were not different among CD, UC, or control groups. Collectively, the PCR, ELISA, and IFN-gamma tests for M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis together with the unexpected observation that BCG vaccination influenced M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis detection, lead us to conclude that M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis, or some similarly fastidious mycobacterial species, infects at least a subset of IBD patients. Whether the infection is primary (causal) or secondary, it may contribute to the etiopathogenesis of IBD.
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- M T Collins
- Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Medical School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1102, USA
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Hussain R, Kifayet A, Dojki M, Dockrell HM. Selective correlation of interferon-gamma, tumour necrosis factor-alpha and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor with immunoglobulin G1 and immunoglobulin G3 subclass antibody in leprosy. Immunology 1999; 98:238-43. [PMID: 10540222 PMCID: PMC2326927 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1999.00876.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dysregulation of both B- and T-cell responses is observed in leprosy. Immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) and IgG3 antibody subclasses are selectively elevated towards the lepromatous or disseminated form of the disease accompanied by a depression of T-cell responses. T-cell and macrophage cytokines influence antibody class switching, differentiation and proliferation of B cells. To understand the dynamic nature of the immune response in leprosy, we examined the relationship between circulating Mycobacterium leprae-specific antibodies and secreted cytokines [interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), interleukin-2 (IL-2), IL-5, IL-10, IL-6, tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)] in leprosy patients (19 lepromatous patients; 25 tuberculoid patients) and their exposed household contacts (HC=14) in response to M. leprae antigens. Paired comparison revealed a highly significant negative correlation between IFN-gamma and IgG (P=0.016), IgG1 (P<0.001) and IgG3 (P=0. 007) antibodies. No significant relationship was observed with other T-cell cytokines (IL-2, IL-5 and IL-10). These results strongly suggest that IFN-gamma may play a role in down-regulating antigen-specific IgG1 and IgG3 antibodies. Among the macrophage cytokines, TNF-alpha and GM-CSF which have not been shown to play a role in B-cell activation were positively associated with IgG1 (TNF-alpha, P=0.0005; GM-CSF, P=0.001) and IgG3 (TNF-alpha, P=0.001; GM-CSF, P=0.021) antibodies. Since macrophages have high-affinity Fc receptors for IgG1 and IgG3, it is possible that antigen uptake via these receptors may influence cytokine expression of TNF-alpha, a key modulator of disease pathogenesis in mycobacterial diseases. We are currently investigating the role of Fc receptors on activated macrophages, in expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines in mycobacterial diseases.
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- R Hussain
- Department of Microbiology, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Maes HH, Causse JE, Maes RF. Tuberculosis I: a conceptual frame for the immunopathology of the disease. Med Hypotheses 1999; 52:583-93. [PMID: 10459843 DOI: 10.1054/mehy.1997.0698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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An analysis of the cellular and humoral immune responses after bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination and during tuberculosis treatment favors the hypothesis of an immune defence developed in four overlapping successive stages. The initial immune response is innate. The following two intermingle innate and specific responses against low molecular weight oligopeptidic and nonpeptidic antigens, as muramyldipeptide and trehalose dimycolate, and large molecular weight nonpeptidic antigens such as lipoarabinomannan. The ultimate specific response is directed against protein antigens as Antigen 60. BCG and primary tuberculosis (TB) infections induce cellular and humoral immune responses essentially against oligopeptidic and small and large molecular weight nonpeptidic antigens. Immune responses against non-peptidic substances contribute to the immunoprotection of the infected person who develops a primary infection. Some infected people allow the expression of the immunosuppressive activity of the pathogen. This results in the synthesis of interleukin-10 (IL-10), which suppresses the formation of interferon-gamma (INF-gamma) and IL-2, and of IL-6, which suppresses T-cell responses. These patients have a skewed immune response against non-peptidic antigens and present with symptoms. They will not recover unless responses directed against proteinic antigens occur, which restore INF-gamma and IL-2 production. The formation of immumoglobulin-G (IgG)-type antibodies and of a cellular immunity against mycobacterial peptidic antigens is essential for a good protection against a post-primary infection.
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- H H Maes
- Department of Microbiology and Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Weir RE, Brennan PJ, Butlin CR, Dockrell HM. Use of a whole blood assay to evaluate in vitro T cell responses to new leprosy skin test antigens in leprosy patients and healthy subjects. Clin Exp Immunol 1999; 116:263-9. [PMID: 10337017 PMCID: PMC1905275 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.00892.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Development of an immunological tool to detect infection with Mycobacterium leprae would greatly benefit leprosy control programmes, as demonstrated by the contribution of the tuberculin test to tuberculosis control. In a new approach to develop a 'tuberculin-like' reagent for use in leprosy, two new fractions of M. leprae depleted of cross-reactive and immunomodulatory lipids- MLSA-LAM (cytosol-derived) and MLCwA (cell wall-derived)-have been produced in a form suitable for use as skin test reagents. T cell responses (interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and lymphoproliferation) to these two new fractions were evaluated in a leprosy-endemic area of Nepal using a simple in vitro whole blood test. The two fractions were shown to be highly potent T cell antigens in subjects exposed to M. leprae-paucibacillary leprosy patients and household contacts. Responses to the fractions decreased towards the lepromatous pole of leprosy. Endemic control subjects also showed high responses to the fractions, indicating high exposure to M. leprae, or cross-reactive mycobacterial antigens, in this Nepali population. The new fractions, depleted of lipids and lipoarabinomannan (LAM) gave enhanced responses compared with a standard M. leprae sonicate. The cell wall fraction appeared a more potent antigen than the cytosol fraction, which may be due to the predominance of the 65-kD GroEL antigen in the cell wall. The whole blood assay proved a robust field tool and a useful way of evaluating such reagents prior to clinical trials.
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- R E Weir
- Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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Hussain R, Dockrell HM, Chiang TJ. Dominant recognition of a cross-reactive B-cell epitope in Mycobacterium leprae 10 K antigen by immunoglobulin G1 antibodies across the disease spectrum in leprosy. Immunology 1999; 96:620-7. [PMID: 10233750 PMCID: PMC2326793 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1999.00740.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mycobacterium leprae-specific immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) antibodies in patients with leprosy show a direct correlation with bacterial load (rho=0.748; P<0002) suggesting that IgG1 B-cell responses may be surrogate markers of disease progression. To investigate if this upregulation was a general feature of IgG1 responses to all M. leprae (ML) antigens, we analysed responses to several recombinant purified ML heat-shock proteins (HSP). Three recombinant HSPs (ML10 K, ML 18 K and ML 65 K) were tested for their ability to induce various IgG subclasses in patients with either the lepromatous (LL/BL, n=26) or tuberculoid form (BT/TT, n=39) of the disease as well as in healthy households (HC, n=14) and endemic controls (EC=19). Our major findings were: (1) selective augmentation of IgG1 antibody responses to ML10 K; (2) recognition of a restricted number of epitopes across the disease spectrum and healthy controls by IgG1 antibodies; (3) dominant recognition of cross-reactive epitopes which were common to both ML and MT 10 K. This response was not related to contamination with endotoxin. Epitope mapping using 15-mer overlapping peptides spanning the ML 10 000 MW revealed an immunodominant IgG1 binding peptide (aa41-55) in patients as well as healthy controls. This peptide is a shared epitope with M. tuberculosis 10 K suggesting that postswitched IgG1 B cells recognizing this epitope rather than naive B cells are being expanded.
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- R Hussain
- Department of Microbiology, The Aga Khan University. PO Box 3500, Karachi, Pakistan
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Leprosy is an ancient disease which is still poorly understood and often feared by the general public and even by some healthcare professionals. Fortunately, improvements in the management of leprosy over the past three decades have diminished the stigma and greatly altered the outlook for patients. Public understanding of the disease has benefited from WHO's goal of eliminating leprosy as a public health problem by the year 2000. Unfortunately that goal has also led many to believe that leprosy has been or will soon be eradicated. This will not happen in the near future because, despite a fall in registered cases, the incidence of the disease has changed very little, and eradication of a bacterial infectious disease such as this is unlikely with chemotherapy alone. Nevertheless, as a result of the WHO's efforts, patients nearly everywhere should have access to care, and the incidence may begin to diminish if adequate control efforts are maintained beyond the year 2000. Given the mobility of patients today a physician anywhere may occasionally see a case or be asked about the disease so a basic understanding of leprosy and its management should prove useful.
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- R R Jacobson
- Division of National Hansen's Disease Programs, Gillis W Long Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, LA 70721-9607, USA.
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Hussain R, Dockrell HM, Shahid F, Zafar S, Chiang TJ. Leprosy patients with lepromatous disease recognize cross-reactive T cell epitopes in the Mycobacterium leprae 10-kD antigen. Clin Exp Immunol 1998; 114:204-9. [PMID: 9822277 PMCID: PMC1905114 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00708.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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T cell responses play a critical role in determining protective responses to leprosy. Patients with self-limiting tuberculoid leprosy show high T cell reactivity, while patients with disseminated lepromatous form of the disease show absent to low levels of T cell reactivity. Since the T cell reactivity of lepromatous patients to purified protein derivative (PPD), a highly cross-reactive antigen, is similar to that of tuberculoid patients, we queried if lepromatous patients could recognize cross-reactive epitopes in Mycobacterium leprae antigens as well. T cell responses were analysed to a recombinant antigen 10-kD (a heat shock cognate protein) which is available from both M. tuberculosis (MT) and M. leprae (ML) and displays 90% identity in its amino acid sequence. Lymphoproliferative responses were assessed to ML and MT 10 kD in newly diagnosed leprosy patients (lepromatous, n = 23; tuberculoid, n = 65). Lepromatous patients showed similar, but low, lymphoproliferative responses to ML and MT 10 kD, while tuberculoid patients showed much higher responses to ML 10 kD. This suggests that the tuberculoid patients may be recognizing both species-specific and cross-reactive epitopes in ML 10 kD, while lepromatous patients may be recognizing only cross-reactive epitopes. This was further supported by linear regression analysis. Lepromatous patients showed a high concordance in T cell responses between ML and MT 10 kD (r=0.658; P<0.0006) not observed in tuberculoid patients (r=0.203; P>0.1). Identification of cross-reactive T cell epitopes in M. leprae which could induce protective responses should prove valuable in designing second generation peptide-based vaccines.
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- R Hussain
- Department of Microbiology, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Trao VT, Huong PL, Thuan AT, Anh DD, Trach DD, Rook GA, Wright EP. Changes in cellular response to mycobacterial antigens and cytokine production patterns in leprosy patients during multiple drug therapy. Immunol Suppl 1998; 94:197-206. [PMID: 9741341 PMCID: PMC1364205 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1998.00485.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Changes in Mycobacterium leprae-induced lymphoproliferative responses and mediator release by leprosy patients' lymphocytes were followed during multiple drug therapy (MDT). At the time of diagnosis, multibacillary (MB) patients who did not develop reactions responded to both sonicated M. leprae and synthetic disaccharide coupled to bovine serum albumin (ND-BSA) antigens, but those who would later develop reactions did not respond, even in the presence of added cytokines. The paucibacillary (PB) group initially had high responses to sonicated M. leprae but no response to ND-BSA, even in the presence of added cytokines. In the first year of treatment, the supernatants of PB patients' cell cultures contained factors that enhanced the phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) response of normal cells. In contrast, those MB patients who did not develop reactions at a later stage produced culture supernatants that were inhibitory. Interestingly, the MB patients who later developed reactions during treatment, and did not initially respond to M. leprae, produced supernatants containing enhancing factors, like those of the PB group. Later on in the treatment, all patients had the same patterns: when response to M. leprae decreased from its highest level, inhibitory factors were produced. Further studies revealed that the supernatants which inhibited the PHA response of normal cells contained the active form of transforming growth factor-beta 1, (TGF-beta 1), whatever the disease type or treatment status of the donor. These TGF-beta 1 levels correlated directly with the degree of inhibition. Similarly supernatants that neither inhibited nor enhanced PHA responses contained the highest levels of interleukin-10 (IL-10), while those from treated patients that enhanced contained the lowest levels of interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). These cytokine correlations transcended the conventional disease classification, and imply that all patients pass through a sequence of patterns of immune response during treatment. These treatment-induced changes may explain occasional reports of response patterns at variance with the 'immunological spectrum' of leprosy.
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- V T Trao
- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Dalai SK, Das D, Kar SK. Setaria digitata adult 14- to 20-kDa antigens induce differential Th1/Th2 cytokine responses in the lymphocytes of endemic normals and asymptomatic microfilariae carriers in bancroftian filariasis. J Clin Immunol 1998; 18:114-23. [PMID: 9533655 DOI: 10.1023/a:1023294716282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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High titers of parasite antigen-specific IgG4 antibodies have been found to be circulating in the peripheral blood of chronic patients, asymptomatic microfilariae carriers, and endemic normals in bancroftian filariasis. But in contrast to this, the titers of antigen-specific IgG1, IgG2, and IgG3 isotype antibodies are much lower. Using soluble antigens of adult Setaria digitata, a cattle parasite which shows strong antigenic reactivity with filaria sera, we have identified, by immunoblot, 14- to 20-kDa antigens which are recognized only by the IgG4 isotype antibodies present in the sera of asymptomatic microfilariae carriers. These 14- to 20-kDa antigens, after fractionation by SDS-PAGE and transfer to nitrocellulose paper, when solubilized and tested in vitro, induced secretion of a higher quantity of IFN-gamma and a lower quantity of IL-4, IL-5, and IL-10 (differential Th1 and Th2 response) in the lymphocytes of endemic normals in comparison to what they induced in the lymphocytes of asymptomatic microfilariae carriers.
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- S K Dalai
- Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Specific mechanisms of recognition of microbial products have been developed by host cells. Among these mechanisms, recognition of lipopolysaccharide of Gram-negative bacteria by CD14, a glycoprotein expressed at the surface of myelomonocytic cells, plays a major role. There is increasing evidence that CD14 also serves as a receptor for other microbial products including peptidoglycan of Gram-positive bacteria. A common theme is that CD14 represents a key molecule in innate immunity. Recognition of microbial products by host cells leads to cell activation and production of a large array of mediators that are necessary for the development of controlled inflammatory processes. When the activation process is out of control, such as in septic shock, these mediators can be detrimental to the host.
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- D Heumann
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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