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INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
卷 76, 期 12, 页码 5873-5882出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00640-08
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- NIH [U01 AI53826, AI35800, AI35707, AI068129, K23 AI060681]
- David and Lucille Packard Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- A.P. Giannini Foundation
- Irvington Institute for Immunological Research
- NIH Research Supplement for Underrepresented Minorities [U01 AI152142-02S1]
In order to gain a better understanding of gene expression during early malaria infection, we conducted microarray analysis of early blood responses in mice infected with erythrocytic-stage Plasmodium chabaudi. Immediately following infection, we observed coordinated and sequential waves of immune responses, with interferon-associated gene transcripts dominating by 16 h postinfection, followed by strong increases in natural killer (NK) cell-associated and major histocompatibility complex class I-related transcripts by 32 h postinfection. We showed by flow cytometry that the observed elevation in NK cell-associated transcripts was the result of a dramatic increase in the proportion of NK cells in the blood during infection. Subsequent microarray analysis of NK cells isolated from the peripheral blood of infected mice revealed a cell proliferation expression signature consistent with the observation that NK cells replicate in response to infection. Early proliferation of NK cells was directly observed in studies with adoptively transferred cells in infected mice. These data indicate that the early response to P. chabaudi infection of the blood is marked by a primary wave of interferon with a subsequent response by NK cells.
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