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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 166, Issue 2, Pages 1097-1105Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.2.1097
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The bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei causes a life-threatening disease called melioidosis. In vivo experiments in mice have identified that a rapid IFN-gamma response is essential for host survival. To identify the cellular sources of IFN-gamma, spleen cells from uninfected mice were stimulated with B. pseudomallei in vitro and assayed by ELISA and flow cytometry. Costaining for intracellular IFN-gamma vs cell surface markers demonstrated that NK cells and, more surprisingly, CD8(+) T cells were the dominant sources of IFN-gamma, IFN-gamma (+) NK cells were detectable after 5 h and IFN-gamma (+) CD8+ T cells within 15 h after addition of bacteria. IFN-gamma production by both cell populations was inhibited by coincubation with neutralizing mAb to IL-12 or IL-18, while a mAb to TNF had much less effect. Three-color flow cytometry showed that IFN-gamma -producing CD8(+) T cells were of the CD44(high) phenotype. The preferential activation of NK cells and CD8(+) T cells, rather than CD4(+) T cells, was also observed in response to Listeria monocytogenes or a combination of IL-12 and IL-18 both in vitro and in vivo. This rapid mechanism of CD8(+) T cell activation may be an important component of innate immunity to intracellular pathogens.
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