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AUTOPHAGY
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 163-165Publisher
LANDES BIOSCIENCE
DOI: 10.4161/auto.3655
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IFN-gamma; CD40L; p47 GTPases; toxoplasma; parasitophorous vacuole
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Autophagy has recently been implicated in the immune elimination of the intracellular protozoan parasite, Toxoplosma gondii. Toxoplasma and other apicomplexan parasites actively invade host cells and form nonfusogenic parasitophorous vocuoles. Nevertheless, following entry into IFN-gamma-activated effector macrophages, vesiculation of the parasite vacuole or PV membrane ensues, in a process dependent upon the activity of p47 GTPases induced by IFN-gamma signaling. Subsequent disruption of the plasma membrane of the stripped parasites precedes autophagolysosomal elimination of T gondii. In contrast, ligation of the CD40 receptor and autocrine signaling by TNF activate a seemingly distinct, p47 GTPose-independent mechanism leading to autophagic elimination of intracellular T gondii, without prior disruption of the pathogen vacuole. Thus, two key pathways of the cell-mediated immune response, namely IFN-gamma and CD40/CD40L, trigger a common autophagolysosomal endpoint of parasite elimination, via distinct intermediary mechanisms.
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