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Microbiol Immunol. 1998;42(12):863-70.
Role of endogenous tumor necrosis factor alpha and gamma interferon in resistance to Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection in mice.
Lan DT, Taniguchi S, Makino S, Shirahata T, Nakane A.
Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan.
The production and roles of endogenous tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in the infection of Corynebacterium (C.) pseudotuberculosis were investigated in mice. The maximum levels of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma were detected on day 4 after infection. The administration of anti-TNF-alpha monoclonal antibody (mAb) as well as anti-IFN-gamma mAb increased bacterial proliferation in the organs, leading to the death of infected mice, but anti-IFN-gamma mAb showed a less marked effect than anti-TNF-alpha mAb. The suppressive effect of anti-TNF-alpha and anti-IFN-gamma mAbs on anticorynebacterial resistance was augmented by the simultaneous administration of these antibodies. Anti-TNF-alpha mAb was found to be highly effective when administered on day 0 and day 4, suggesting that TNF-alpha produced during the early stage of infection is critical for the generation of resistance. Histologically, many microabscesses, severe follicular swelling and lymphocyte destruction were observed in mice treated with anti-TNF-alpha or anti-IFN-gamma mAb. Injection of anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 mAb also resulted in significantly increased mortality and a marked suppression of IFN-gamma production, but had no effect on TNF-alpha production. Carrageenan also showed a marked effect on the exacerbation of infection. Taken together, these results suggest that endogenously produced TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma are both essential to the host defense against C. pseudotuberculosis infection and that these cytokines may have an additive effect.
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Cytokine. 1998 Dec;10(12):940-7.
The role of lipopolysaccharide, pro-inflammatory cytokines and bacterial superantigens in the transcriptional regulation of lymphotoxin alpha and beta in mouse splenocytes.
Zinetti M, Agyekum S, Evans T, Polak J, Cohen J.
Department of Infectious Diseases, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
Lymphotoxin alpha (LT-alpha) and lymphotoxin beta (LT-beta) are members of the tumour necrosis factor (TNF) ligand family. Because of the importance of TNF in the pathogenesis of septic shock, the expression of LT-alpha and LT-beta mRNA in murine splenocytes stimulated with different pro-inflammatory cytokines, sepsis-associated mediators such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and bacterial superantigens was investigated. The authors show that the bacterial superantigens, toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) and staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) upregulate LT-alpha mRNA expression in vitro in murine cells. Basal expression of LT-beta mRNA was found in unstimulated murine splenocytes, and could be increased by the addition of the mitogen concanavalin A (Con A). Despite this suggested inducibility of the murine LT-beta transcript, sepsis-associated mediators did not affect its regulation. Neither the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin 2 (IL-2), TNF-alpha nor LPS alone or in combination with interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) had any effect on LT-beta mRNA expression. The bacterial superantigens TSST-1, SEB and streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A (SPEA) were also unable to upregulate LT-beta mRNA transcript, in contrast to the observation with LT-alpha. 1998 Academic Press.
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Hum Genet. 2003 Mar;112(3):237-43. Epub 2002 Dec 13.
Influence of interleukin-12 receptor beta1 polymorphisms on tuberculosis.
Akahoshi M, Nakashima H, Miyake K, Inoue Y, Shimizu S, Tanaka Y, Okada K, Otsuka T, Harada M.
Department of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Host genetic factors may be important determinants of susceptibility to tuberculosis, and several candidate gene polymorphisms have been shown to date. A series of recent reports concerning rare human deficiencies in the type-1 cytokine pathway suggest that more subtle variants of relevant genes may also contribute to susceptibility to tuberculosis at the general population level. To investigate whether polymorphisms in the interleukin-12 receptor (IL-12R) gene predispose individuals to tuberculosis, we studied these genes by single-strand conformational polymorphism analysis and direct sequencing. Although no common polymorphisms could be identified in the IL-12R beta 2 gene ( IL-12RB2), we confirmed four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs; 641A-->G, 684C-->T, 1094T-->C, and 1132G-->C) causing three missense variants (Q214R, M365T, G378R) and one synonymous substitution in the extracellular domain of the IL-12R beta 1 gene ( IL12RB1). All SNPs were in almost perfect linkage disequilibrium (D'=0.98), and two common haplotypes of IL12RB1(allele 1: Q214-M365-G378; allele 2: R214-T365-R378) were revealed. Polymerase chain reaction/restriction fragment length polymorphism and sequence analyses were used to type IL12RB1polymorphisms in 98 patients with tuberculosis and 197 healthy controls in Japanese populations. In our case-control association study of tuberculosis, the R214-T365-R378 allele (allele 2) was over-represented in patients with tuberculosis, and homozygosity for R214-T365-R378 (the 2/2 genotype) was significantly associated with tuberculosis (odds ratio: 2.45; 95% CI: 1.20-4.99; P=0.013). In healthy subjects, homozygotes for R214-T365-R378 had lower levels of IL-12-induced signaling, according to differences in cellular responses to IL-12 between two haplotypes. These data suggest that the R214-T365-R378 allele, i.e., variation in IL12RB1, contribute to tuberculosis susceptibility in the Japanese population. This genetic variation may predispose individuals to tuberculosis infection by diminishing receptor responsiveness to IL-12 and to IL-23, leading to partial dysfunction of interferon-gamma-mediated immunity.
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Antiviral Res. 1999 Jan;40(3):145-53.
Regulation of interferon-alpha/beta-stimulated gene expression through the gamma-activated transcriptional element.
Weihua X, Ling W, Kalvakolanu DV.
Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA.
Interferons (IFNs) stimulate gene expression to mediate their biological actions. A multimeric transcription factor consisting of STAT1, STAT2 and p48, a DNA binding protein, regulates IFN-alpha/beta stimulated gene expression. Since the cellular level of p48 is also increased by pre-treatment of cells with IFN-gamma, it is also known as ISGF3gamma. To understand how IFN-gamma regulates the expression of the p48 gene, we have previously isolated and characterized the promoter of murine p48 gene and identified a novel gamma-IFN activated transcriptional element (GATE). In this study using several mutant constructs of p48 promoter we have determined that the same element responds to IFN-alpha/beta treatment. Relatively high doses of IFN-alpha/beta compared to IFN-gamma are required for the induction of p48 promoter. This ability of IFN-alpha/beta to regulate GATE dependent gene expression is linked to the activation of a factor induced by IFN-alpha. However, IFN-gamma induces the binding of two gamma-IFN inducible factors (GIFs) to GATE. The IFN-alpha inducible GATE binding factor is not recognized by specific antibodies raised against the known IFN-regulated factors. It is likely IFN-gamma is a stronger inducer of this gene because it activates two GIFs. GATE-like elements present in hither to undefined IFN-stimulated genes may control IFN-responses in a unique manner.
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Infect Immun. 1999 Mar;67(3):1501-4.
Specificity and function of immunogenic peptides from the 35-kilodalton protein of Mycobacterium leprae.
Wilkinson RJ, Wilkinson KA, Jurcevic S, Hills A, Sinha S, Sengupta U, Lockwood DN, Katoch K, Altman D, Ivanyi J.
MRC Clinical Sciences Center, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom.
We identified a T-cell determinant of the 35-kDa antigen of Mycobacterium leprae which is discriminatory against cross-sensitization by its closely related homologue in Mycobacterium avium. From synthetic peptides covering the entire sequence, those with the highest affinity and permissive binding to purified HLA-DR molecules were evaluated for the stimulation of proliferation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from leprosy patients and healthy sensitized controls. Responses to the peptide pair 206-224, differing by four residues between M. leprae and M. avium, involved both species-specific and cross-reactive T cells. Lymph node cell proliferation in HLA-DRB1*01 transgenic mice was reciprocally species specific, but only the response to the M. leprae peptide in the context of DR1 was immunodominant. Of the cytokines in human PBMC cultures, gamma interferon production was negligible, while interleukin 10 (IL-10) responses in both patients and controls were more pronounced. IL-10 was most frequently induced by the shared 241-255 peptide, indicating that environmental cross-sensitization may skew the response toward a potentially pathogenic cytokine phenotype.
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