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CELL
Volume 173, Issue 5, Pages 1083-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.04.006
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- NIH [DP2AT009499, RO1AI130019, RO1AI070926, RO1AI029952, RO1AI010085, R21AI116808]
- CAPES [8239-14-2]
- CNPq [307186/2017-2]
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The nervous system, the immune system, and microbial pathogens interact closely at barrier tissues. Here, we find that abacterial pathogen, Streptococcus pyogenes, hijacks pain and neuronal regulation of the immune response to promote bacterial survival. Necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening soft tissue infection in which pain is out of proportion'' to early physical manifestations. We find that S. pyogenes, the leading cause of necrotizing fasciitis, secretes streptolysin S (SLS) to directly activate nociceptor neurons and produce pain during infection. Nociceptors, in turn, release the neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) into infected tissues, which inhibits the recruitment of neutrophils and opsonophagocytic killing of S. pyogenes. Botulinum neurotoxin A and CGRP antagonism block neuron-mediated suppression of host defense, thereby preventing and treating S. pyogenes necrotizing infection. We conclude that targeting the peripheral nervous system and blocking neuro-immune communication is a promising strategy to treat highly invasive bacterial infections.
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