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PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH
Volume 117, Issue 9, Pages 2901-2912Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-018-5981-9
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Brugia malayi; Leishmania donovani; Cross-reactive molecules; Th1 and Th2 cytokines; IgG subclasses; MALDI-TOF-MS
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- CSIR, New Delhi [21 (0963)/13/EMR-II]
- CSIR
- ICMR
- University Grant Commission
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We earlier found that F6 fraction of human filaria Brugia malayi cross-reacted with sera of Leishmania donovani infected hamsters and immunization with F6 inhibited both filarial and leishmanial infections. In the present study, we identified a 52.9-93.6 kDa fraction (Ld1) of L. donovani that cross-reacted with sera of B. malayi infected animals and investigated effect of Ld1 on filarial infection. Immunization of BALB/c mice with Ld1 facilitated B. malayi infection with remarkable increase in parasite burden. Facilitation of filarial infection was associated with downregulated cell proliferation, IL-5, IL-13, IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha, and IL-2 levels and upregulated IL-4 and TGF-beta. Ld1 exposure also suppressed MHC class-I, MHC class-II, and Fc epsilon R1 expression, and phagocytosis in naive mouse macrophages, and CD4+, CD8+, and CD19+ cell population in mouse spleen. Two-dimensional electrophoresis and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry revealed eight proteins in Ld1: putative heat shock protein (HSP) 70-related protein 1, HSP70 mitochondrial precursor, alanine aminotransferase, 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate-independent phosphoglycerate mutase, protein disulfide isomerase, putative ATPase beta subunit, trypanothione reductase, and a hypothetical protein. HSP70 protein mitochondrial precursor and trypanothione reductase showed homology with Trypanosoma cruzi and L. donovani, respectively, and the rest 6 proteins including hypothetical protein bear homology with L. infantum. In conclusion, the present study for the first time shows that immunization with filarial cross-reactive Ld1 fraction of L. donovani facilitates filarial infection by modulating Th1 and Th2 responses. Ld1 molecules may therefore facilitate filarial infection in filaria-leishmania co-infection.
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