Protective Regulatory T Cell Immune Response Induced by Intranasal Immunization With the Live-Attenuated Pneumococcal Vaccine SPY1 via the Transforming Growth Factor-β1-Smad2/3 Pathway.
Protective Regulatory T Cell Immune Response Induced by Intranasal Immunization With the Live-Attenuated Pneumococcal Vaccine SPY1 via the Transforming Growth Factor-β1-Smad2/3 Pathway.
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肺炎球菌减毒活疫苗 SPY1 通过转化生长因子-β 1-Smad2/3 途径鼻内免疫诱导的保护性调节 T 细胞免疫反应
DOI:
10.3389/fimmu.2018.01754
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
7.3
通讯作者:
Xu X
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文献类型:
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作者:
Liao H;Peng X;Gan L;Feng J;Gao Y;Yang S;Hu X;Zhang L;Yin Y;Wang H;Xu X
Vaccine effectiveness is mainly determined by the mechanism mediating protection, emphasizing the importance of unraveling the protective mechanism for novel pneumococcal vaccine development. We previously demonstrated that the regulatory T cell (Treg) immune response has a protective effect against pneumococcal infection elicited by the live-attenuated pneumococcal vaccine SPY1. However, the mechanism underlying this protective effect remains unclear. In this study, a short synthetic peptide (P17) was used to downregulate Tregs during immunization and subsequent challenges in a mouse model. In immunized mice, increase in immune cytokines (IL-12p70, IL-4, IL-5, and IL-17A) induced by SPY1 were further upregulated by P17 treatment, whereas the decrease in the infection-associated inflammatory cytokine TNF-α by SPY1 was reversed. P17 also inhibited the increase in the immunosuppressive cytokine IL-10 and inflammatory mediator IL-6 in immunized mice. More severe pulmonary injuries and more dramatic inflammatory responses with worse survival in P17-treated immunized mice indicated the indispensable role of the Treg immune response in protection against pneumococcal infection by maintaining a balance among acquired immune responses stimulated by SPY1. Further studies revealed that the significant elevation of active transforming growth factor β (TGF-β)1 by SPY1 vaccination activated FOXP3, leading to increased frequencies of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ T cells. Moreover, SPY1 vaccination elevated the levels of Smad2/3 and phosphor-Smad2/3 and downregulated the negative regulatory factor Smad7 in a time-dependent manner during pneumococcal infection, and these changes were reversed by P17 treatment. These results illustrate that SPY1-stimulated TGF-β1 induced the generation of SPY1-specific Tregs via the Smad2/3 signaling pathway. In addition, SPY1-specific Tregs may participate in protection via the enhanced expression of PD-1 and CTLA-4. The data presented here extend our understanding of how the SPY1-induced acquired Treg immune response contributes to protection elicited by live-attenuated vaccines and may be helpful for the evaluation of live vaccines and other mucosal vaccine candidates.
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影响因子:
15.3
作者:
Fahlén, L;Read, S;Gorelik, L;Hurst, SD;Coffman, RL;Flavell, RA;Powrie, F
通讯作者:
Powrie, F
DOI:
10.4049/jimmunol.1000423
发表时间:
2010-08-15
期刊:
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
影响因子:
--
作者:
Fulton RB;Meyerholz DK;Varga SM
通讯作者:
Varga SM
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Huber S;Schrader J;Fritz G;Presser K;Schmitt S;Waisman A;Lüth S;Blessing M;Herkel J;Schramm C
通讯作者:
Schramm C
影响因子:
32.4
作者:
Li, Ming O.;Wan, Yisong Y.;Flavell, Richard A.
通讯作者:
Flavell, Richard A.
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0910341107
发表时间:
2010-01-26
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Jain, Nitya;Nguyen, Hai;Kang, Joonsoo
通讯作者:
Kang, Joonsoo