| First Author | Weidanz WP | Year | 2010 |
| Journal | Infect Immun | Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 10 | Pages | 4331-40 |
| PubMed ID | 20660608 | Mgi Jnum | J:164250 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:4830947 | Doi | 10.1128/IAI.00539-10 |
| Citation | Weidanz WP, et al. (2010) {gamma}{delta} T Cells but Not NK Cells Are Essential for Cell-Mediated Immunity against Plasmodium chabaudi Malaria. Infect Immun 78(10):4331-40 |
| abstractText | Blood-stage Plasmodium chabaudi infections are suppressed by antibody-mediated immunity and/or cell-mediated immunity (CMI). To determine the contributions of NK cells and gammadelta T cells to protective immunity, C57BL/6 (wild-type [WT]) mice and B-cell-deficient (J(H(-/-))) mice were infected with P. chabaudi and depleted of NK cells or gammadelta T cells with monoclonal antibody. The time courses of parasitemia in NK-cell-depleted WT mice and J(H(-/-)) mice were similar to those of control mice, indicating that deficiencies in NK cells, NKT cells, or CD8(+) T cells had little effect on parasitemia. In contrast, high levels of noncuring parasitemia occurred in J(H(-/-)) mice depleted of gammadelta T cells. Depletion of gammadelta T cells during chronic parasitemia in B-cell-deficient J(H(-/-)) mice resulted in an immediate and marked exacerbation of parasitemia, suggesting that gammadelta T cells have a direct killing effect in vivo on blood-stage parasites. Cytokine analyses revealed that levels of interleukin-10, gamma interferon (IFN-gamma), and macrophage chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) in the sera of gammadelta T-cell-depleted mice were significantly (P < 0.05) decreased compared to hamster immunoglobulin-injected controls, but these cytokine levels were similar in NK-cell-depleted mice and their controls. The time courses of parasitemia in CCR2(-/-) and J(H(-/-)) x CCR2(-/-) mice and in their controls were nearly identical, indicating that MCP-1 is not required for the control of parasitemia. Collectively, these data indicate that the suppression of acute P. chabaudi infection by CMI is gammadelta T cell dependent, is independent of NK cells, and may be attributed to the deficient IFN-gamma response seen early in gammadelta T-cell-depleted mice. |
