Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 9, Pages 2386-2397Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201243245
Keywords
DC; Memory T cells; Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ags; Th1 response; Th17 response
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- European Community [200732 HOMITB, LSHP-CT-2003-503240]
- MUVAPRED
- Italian Ministry of Health AIDS Project [3H/16]
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The immunological mechanisms that modulate protection during Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection or vaccination are not fully understood. Secretion of IFN- and, to a lesser extent, of IL-17 by CD4(+) T cells plays a major role both in protection and immunopathology. Few MtbAgs interacting with DCs affect priming, activation, and regulation of Ag-unrelated CD4(+) T-cell responses. Here we demonstrate that PstS1, a 38 kDa-lipoprotein of Mtb, promotes Ag-independent activation of memory T lymphocytes specific for Ag85B or Ag85A, two immunodominant protective Ags of Mtb. PstS1 expands CD4(+) and CD8(+) memory T cells, amplifies secretion of IFN- and IL-22 and induces IL-17 production by effector memory cells in an Ag-unrelated manner in vitro and in vivo. These effects were mediated through the stimulation of DCs, particularly of the CD8(-) subtype, which respond to PstS1 by undergoing phenotypic maturation and by secreting IL-6, IL-1 and, to a lower extent, IL-23. IL-6 secretion by PstS1-stimulated DCs was required for IFN-, and to a lesser extent for IL-22 responses by Ag85B-specific memory T cells. These results may open new perspectives for immunotherapeutic strategies to control Th1/Th17 immune responses in Mtb infections and in vaccinations against tuberculosis.
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