Regulation of macrophage IL-12 synthesis by leishmania phosphoglycans

Piedrafita, David, Proudfoot, Lorna, Nikolaev, Andrei V., Xu, Damo, Sands, William, Feng, Gui-Jie, Thomas, Elaine, Brewer, James, Ferguson, Michael A. J., Alexander, James and Liew, Foo Y. 1999. Regulation of macrophage IL-12 synthesis by leishmania phosphoglycans. European Journal of Immunology 29 (1) , pp. 235-244.

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Abstract

It is now generally accepted that IFN-gamma, secreted by Th1 cells, is the most potent cytokine leading to macrophage activation and host resistance against infection with the intracellular protozoan parasite Leishmania. It is also established that IL-12 is a critical cytokine involved in the differentiation and expansion of Th1 cells. Therefore, the ability of Leishmania parasites to actively suppress IL-12 production by host macrophages may be an important strategy for parasite survival. Here we report that a major parasite cell surface molecule, phosphoglycan (PG), of Leishmania could selectively inhibit the synthesis of IL-12(p40, p70) by activated murine macrophages. Furthermore, synthetic PG (sPG) was able to inhibit IL-12 release in a dose-dependent manner. Inhibition was dependent on the galactose(beta1-4)mannose(alpha1)-PO4 repeating units and not the glycophosphoinositol lipid anchor of lipophosphoglycan. At the concentration used, sPG had no effect on the release of TNF-alpha or IL-6 in activated macrophages. The inhibition of IL-12(p40) production was at the transcriptional level, but was not mediated through NF kappaB inhibition. These data demonstrate that PG may be an important molecule for the establishment and survival of the parasite in permissive hosts.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0014-2980
Last Modified:	17 Jan 2019 09:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/66431

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