Plasmodium Falciparum-infected Erythrocytes and IL-12/IL-18 Induce Diverse Transcriptomes in Human NK Cells: IFN-α/β Pathway Versus TREM Signaling

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2011 Sep 28

PMID 21949811

Citations 10

Authors

Elisandra Grangeiro de Carvalho

Michael Bonin

Peter G Kremsner

Jurgen F J Kun

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Abstract

The protective immunity of natural killer (NK) cells against malarial infections is thought to be due to early production of type II interferon (IFN) and possibly direct NK cell cytotoxicity. To better understand this mechanism, a microarray analysis was conducted on NK cells from healthy donors PBMCs that were co-cultured with P. falciparum 3D7-infected erythrocytes. A very similar pattern of gene expression was observed among all donors for each treatment in three replicas. Parasites particularly modulated genes involved in IFN-α/β signaling as well as molecules involved in the activation of interferon regulatory factors, pathways known to play a role in the antimicrobial immune response. This pattern of transcription was entirely different from that shown by NK cells treated with IL-12 and IL-18, in which IFN-γ- and TREM-1-related genes were over-expressed. These results suggest that P. falciparum parasites and the cytokines IL-12 and IL-18 have diverse imprints on the transcriptome of human primary NK cells. IFN-α-related genes are the prominent molecules induced by parasites on NK cells and arise as candidate biomarkers that merit to be further investigated as potential new tools in malaria control.

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