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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 171, Issue 12, Pages 6742-6749Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.12.6742
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI41526, AI055962] Funding Source: Medline
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Dendritic cells provide a critical link between innate and acquired immunity. In this study, we demonstrate that the bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium can efficiently kill these professional phagocytes via a mechanism that is dependent on sipB and the Salmonella pathogenicity island 1-encoded type III protein secretion system. Rapid phosphatidylserine redistribution, caspase activation, and loss of plasma membrane integrity were characteristic of dendritic cells infected with wild-type Salmonella, but not sipB mutant bacteria. Caspase-1 was particularly important in this process because Salmonella-induced dendritic cell death was dramatically reduced in the presence of a caspase-1-specific inhibitor. Furthermore, dendritic cells obtained from caspase-1-deficient mice, but not heterozygous littermate control mice, were resistant to Salmonella-induced cytotoxicity. We hypothesize that Salmonella have evolved the ability to selectively kill professional APCs to combat, exploit, or evade immune defense mechanisms.
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