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CELL
Volume 184, Issue 5, Pages 1214-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.051
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- NIH [R01 AI101400, R01 HD091218, R01AI145296, R01 DK122790]
- ARS-CRIS [8042-31000-107-00D]
- NIAID Division of Intramural Research
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The study shows that infections with enteric helminths can increase mortality when coinfected with other pathogens, due to type 2 immune skewing. Additionally, activation of tuft cell-IL-4 receptor circuits in the gut exacerbates neurotropic virus infection and disease.
Although enteric helminth infections modulate immunity to mucosal pathogens, their effects on systemic microbes remain less established. Here, we observe increased mortality in mice coinfected with the enteric helminth Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (Hpb) and West Nile virus (WNV). This enhanced susceptibility is associated with altered gut morphology and transit, translocation of commensal bacteria, impaired WNV-specific T cell responses, and increased virus infection in the gastrointestinal tract and central nervous system. These outcomes were due to type 2 immune skewing, because coinfection in Stat6(-/-) mice rescues mortality, treatment of helminth-free WNV-infected mice with interleukin (IL)-4 mirrors coinfection, and IL-4 receptor signaling in intestinal epithelial cells mediates the susceptibility phenotypes. Moreover, tuft cell-deficient mice show improved outcomes with coinfection, whereas treatment of helminth-free mice with tuft cell-derived cytokine IL-25 or ligand succinate worsens WNV disease. Thus, helminth activation of tuft cell-IL-4-receptor circuits in the gut exacerbates infection and disease of a neurotropic flavivirus.
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