TY - JOUR
T1 - Effector CD8+ T lymphocytes against liver stages of Plasmodium yoelii do not require gamma interferon for antiparasite activity
AU - Chakravarty, Sumana
AU - Baldeviano, G. Christian
AU - Overstreet, Michael G.
AU - Zavala, Fidel
PY - 2008/8
Y1 - 2008/8
N2 - The protective immune response against liver stages of the malaria parasite critically requires CD8+ T cells. Although the nature of the effector mechanism utilized by these cells to repress parasite development remains unclear, a critical role for gamma interferon (IFN-γ) has been widely assumed based on circumstantial evidence. However, the requirement for CD8+ T-cell-mediated IFN-γ production in protective immunity to this pathogen has not been directly tested. In this report, we use an adoptive transfer strategy with circumsporozoite (CS) protein-specific transgenic T cells to examine the role of CD8+ T-cell-derived IFN-γ production in Plasmodium yoelii-infected mice. We show that despite a marginal reduction in the expansion of naive IFN-γ-deficient CS-specific transgenic T cells, their antiparasite activity remains intact. Further, adoptively transferred IFN-γ-deficient CD8+ T cells were as efficient as their wild-type counterparts in limiting parasite growth in naive mice. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that IFN-γ secretion by CS-specific CD8+ T cells is not essential to protect mice against live sporozoite challenge.
AB - The protective immune response against liver stages of the malaria parasite critically requires CD8+ T cells. Although the nature of the effector mechanism utilized by these cells to repress parasite development remains unclear, a critical role for gamma interferon (IFN-γ) has been widely assumed based on circumstantial evidence. However, the requirement for CD8+ T-cell-mediated IFN-γ production in protective immunity to this pathogen has not been directly tested. In this report, we use an adoptive transfer strategy with circumsporozoite (CS) protein-specific transgenic T cells to examine the role of CD8+ T-cell-derived IFN-γ production in Plasmodium yoelii-infected mice. We show that despite a marginal reduction in the expansion of naive IFN-γ-deficient CS-specific transgenic T cells, their antiparasite activity remains intact. Further, adoptively transferred IFN-γ-deficient CD8+ T cells were as efficient as their wild-type counterparts in limiting parasite growth in naive mice. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that IFN-γ secretion by CS-specific CD8+ T cells is not essential to protect mice against live sporozoite challenge.
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U2 - 10.1128/IAI.00471-08
DO - 10.1128/IAI.00471-08
M3 - Article
C2 - 18519561
AN - SCOPUS:48849116859
VL - 76
SP - 3628
EP - 3631
JO - Infection and Immunity
JF - Infection and Immunity
SN - 0019-9567
IS - 8
ER -