Eradication of Cryptosporidium parvum infection by mice with ovalbumin-specific T cells.
Eradication of Cryptosporidium parvum infection by mice with ovalbumin-specific T cells.
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用卵清蛋白特异性 T 细胞根除小鼠的小隐孢子虫感染。
DOI:
10.1128/iai.68.5.2663-2670.2000
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Hayward,A
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作者:
Lukin,K;Cosyns,M;Mitchell,T;Saffry,M;Hayward,A
CD154 is necessary for mice to clear aCryptosporidium parvuminfection, but whether this ligand has to be expressed on T cells with specificity forC. parvumhas not been determined. We infected DO11.10 (ovalbumin specific) T-cell receptor transgenic mice that had been bred to a RAG−/−background withC. parvumand found that the infection was cleared within 6 weeks, while RAG−/−controls were unable to clearC. parvuminfection. Recovery was accompanied by an increase in the number of splenic T cells with the CD44highphenotype that characterizes memory cells. To determine whether aC. parvum-infected environment sufficed to activate transgenic T cells, we reconstitutedC. parvum-infected BALB/c SCID mice with DO11.10 RAG−/−splenocytes. Fecal excretion ofC. parvumantigen ceased in the 12 weeks following the adoptive transfer, unless the mice were also injected with tolerizing doses of ovalbumin. DO11.10 T cells were found in the submucosa ofC. parvum-infected, but not uninfected, BALB/c SCID hosts within 48 h of injection. The transferred DO11.10 T cells divided and acquired a CD44highmemory phenotype inC. parvum-infected, but not uninfected, recipients. DO11.10 splenocytes from CD154 knockout donors failed to clear aC. parvuminfection, confirming a requirement for CD154 in recovery. In vitro, the DO11.10 cells did not proliferate in response toC. parvumantigen, and a tBlast GenBank search revealed no matches between the ovalbumin peptide andC. parvumDNA sequences.C. parvum-infected SCID mice given RAG−/−CD8+T cells with aListeria-specific transgene did not recover fromC. parvuminfection. Our data suggest that antigen-nonspecific CD4+T-cell effector mechanisms in combination with the innate arm of the immune system are sufficient for the eradication ofC. parvuminfection.