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BLOOD
Volume 115, Issue 2, Pages 353-362Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-08-236711
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- Medical Research Council UK
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
- E. . Abraham Trust
- University of Franche-Comte
- MRC [G0600727] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0600727] Funding Source: researchfish
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Alternatively activated macrophages play an important role in host defense in the context of a T helper type 2 (Th2) microenvironment such as parasitic infection. However, the role of these macrophages during secondary challenge with Th1 pathogens is poorly defined. In this study, thioglycollate-elicited mouse peritoneal macrophages were treated with interleukin-4 (IL-4) or IL-13 in vitro and challenged with Neisseria meningitidis. After 8 to 12 hours of IL-4 pretreatment, the nonopsonic phagocytic uptake of N meningitidis was markedly reduced, depending on the common IL-4R alpha chain, but independent of Scavenger receptor A and macrophage receptor with collagenous structure (MARCO), 2 known receptors for N meningitidis. Inhibition of phagocytosis extended to several other microbial particles, zymosan, and other bacteria. Concomitantly, IL-4 potentiated the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, after additional bacterial stimulation, which depended on the MyD88 signaling pathway. Similar results were obtained after intra-peritoneal stimulation of IL-4 and N meningitidis in vivo. Further in vitro studies showed a striking correlation with inhibition of Akt phosphorylation and stimulation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway; inhibition of phagocytosis was associated with inhibition of phagosome formation. These findings are relevant to host defense in mixed infections within a Th2 microenvironment and shed light on immunologic functions associated with alternative priming and full activation of macrophages. (Blood. 2010; 115: 353-362)
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