Journal
FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR AND INFECTION MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.723121
Keywords
T cells; Trypanosoma cruzi; Chagas disease; reinfections; immune quality
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- Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion (COLCIENCIAS)
- PUJ (Convocatoria 727 Doctorados Nacionales)
- Programa Estatal I+D+I (MINECO, Spain)
- COLCIENCIAS [120365842534]
- PUJ [6233]
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The study investigates the relationship between parasite control and immune T cell responses in Chagas disease by using distinct infection approaches in an animal model. Different infection outcomes were observed in single or mixed T. cruzi infection with different genotypes, leading to differential immune CD8(+) T cell responses. This suggests that the quality of the CD8(+) T cell response may dictate differences in infection outcomes during chronic T. cruzi infection.
Chagas disease (ChD) is a chronic infection caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. This highly diverse intracellular parasite is classified into seven genotypes or discrete typing units (DTUs) and they overlap in geographic ranges, vectors, and clinical characteristics. Although studies have suggested that ChD progression is due to a decline in the immune response quality, a direct relationship between T cell responses and disease outcome is still unclear. To investigate the relationship between parasite control and immune T cell responses, we used two distinct infection approaches in an animal model to explore the histological and parasitological outcomes and dissect the T cell responses in T. cruzi-infected mice. First, we performed single infection experiments with DA (TcI) or Y (TcII) T. cruzi strains to compare the infection outcomes and evaluate its relationship with the T cell response. Second, because infections with diverse T. cruzi genotypes can occur in naturally infected individuals, mice were infected with the Y or DA strain and subsequently reinfected with the Y strain. We found different infection outcomes in the two infection approaches used. The single chronic infection showed differences in the inflammatory infiltrate level, while mixed chronic infection by different T. cruzi DTUs showed dissimilarities in the parasite loads. Chronically infected mice with a low inflammatory infiltrate (DA-infected mice) or low parasitemia and parasitism (Y/Y-infected mice) showed increases in early-differentiated CD8(+) T cells, a multifunctional T cell response and lower expression of inhibitory receptors on CD8(+) T cells. In contrast, infected mice with a high inflammatory infiltrate (Y-infected mice) or high parasitemia and parasitism (DA/Y-infected mice) showed a CD8(+) T cell response distinguished by an increase in late-differentiated cells, a monofunctional response, and enhanced expression of inhibitory receptors. Overall, our results demonstrated that the infection outcomes caused by single or mixed T. cruzi infection with different genotypes induce a differential immune CD8(+) T cell response quality. These findings suggest that the CD8(+) T cell response might dictate differences in the infection outcomes at the chronic T. cruzi stage. This study shows that the T cell response quality is related to parasite control during chronic T. cruzi infection.
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