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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages 229-236Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni769
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Infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae can trigger an intense inflammatory response, yet there is little specific immune response or development of immune memory. In addition, gonorrhea typically correlates with a transient reduction in T lymphocyte counts in blood, and these populations recover when gonococcal infection is resolved. Such observations suggest that the gonococci have a suppressive effect on the host immune response. We report here that N. gonorrhoeae O pa proteins were able to bind CEACAM1 expressed by primary CD4(+)T lymphocytes and suppress their activation and proliferation. CEACAM1 bound by gonococcal Opa(52) associated with the tyrosine phosphatases SHP-1 and SHP-2, which implicates the receptor's ITIM (immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif) in this effect.
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