IL-22 and IDO1 affect immunity and tolerance to murine and human vaginal candidiasis.
IL-22 and IDO1 affect immunity and tolerance to murine and human vaginal candidiasis.
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IL-22和IDO1影响对鼠和人类阴道念珠菌病的免疫和耐受性。
DOI:
10.1371/journal.ppat.1003486
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发表时间:
2013
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影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
Romani L
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作者:
De Luca A;Carvalho A;Cunha C;Iannitti RG;Pitzurra L;Giovannini G;Mencacci A;Bartolommei L;Moretti S;Massi-Benedetti C;Fuchs D;De Bernardis F;Puccetti P;Romani L
The ability to tolerate Candida albicans, a human commensal of the gastrointestinal tract and vagina, implicates that host defense mechanisms of resistance and tolerance cooperate to limit fungal burden and inflammation at the different body sites. We evaluated resistance and tolerance to the fungus in experimental and human vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) as well as in recurrent VVC (RVVC). Resistance and tolerance mechanisms were both activated in murine VVC, involving IL-22 and IL-10-producing regulatory T cells, respectively, with a major contribution by the enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1). IDO1 was responsible for the production of tolerogenic kynurenines, such that replacement therapy with kynurenines restored immunoprotection to VVC. In humans, two functional genetic variants in IL22 and IDO1 genes were found to be associated with heightened resistance to RVVC, and they correlated with increased local expression of IL-22, IDO1 and kynurenines. Thus, IL-22 and IDO1 are crucial in balancing resistance with tolerance to Candida, their deficiencies are risk factors for RVVC, and targeting tolerance via therapeutic kynurenines may benefit patients with RVVC. This study disentangles resistance and tolerance components of murine and human C. albicans vaginal infection and introduces the challenging notion of a disease due to a defective tolerance mechanism. Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) and recurrent VVC (RVVC) are two forms of disease that affect a large number of otherwise healthy women. Uncomplicated VVC is associated with several predisposing factors, whereas RVVC, marked by idiopathic recurrent episodes, may be virtually untreatable. Despite a growing list of recognized risk factors, further understanding of anti-Candida host defense mechanisms in the vagina is needed to optimize vaccine development and immune interventions to integrate with, or even replace, antifungal therapy. Indeed, medical treatments that increase host resistance, such as antifungals, are highly effective for individual symptomatic attacks but do not prevent recurrences and there is concern that repeated treatments might induce drug resistance. As tolerance mechanisms are not expected to have the same selective pressure on pathogens, new drugs that target tolerance will provide therapies to which low-virulence pathogens, such as C. albicans, will not develop resistance. This study provides a proof-of-concept that targeting tolerance via therapeutic kynurenines may benefit patients with RVVC.
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影响因子:
11.8
作者:
Babula, O;Lazdane, G;Witkin, SS
通讯作者:
Witkin, SS
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
Gessner, Melissa A.;Werner, Jessica L.;Steele, Chad
通讯作者:
Steele, Chad
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
FIDEL, PL;LYNCH, ME;SOBEL, JD
通讯作者:
SOBEL, JD
DOI:
10.1369/jhc.2009.953604
发表时间:
2010-01-01
期刊:
The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society
影响因子:
--
作者:
Dai, Xiangchen;Zhu, Bao Ting
通讯作者:
Zhu, Bao Ting
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Fidel, PL;Barousse, M;Dunlap, K
通讯作者:
Dunlap, K