Role of Dendritic Cell-pathogen Interactions in the Immune Response to Pulmonary Cryptococcal Infection

Overview

Journal Future Microbiol

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Microbiology

Date 2015 Nov 25

PMID 26597428

Citations 16

Authors

Alison J Eastman

John J Osterholzer

Michal A Olszewski

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Abstract

This review discusses the unique contributions of dendritic cells (DCs) to T-cell priming and the generation of effective host defenses against Cryptococcus neoformans (C.neo) infection. We highlight DC subsets involved in the early and later stages of anticryptococcal immune responses, interactions between C.neo pathogen-associated molecular patterns and pattern recognition receptors expressed by DC, and the influence of DC on adaptive immunity. We emphasize recent studies in mouse models of cryptococcosis that illustrate the importance of DC-derived cytokines and costimulatory molecules and the potential role of DC epigenetic modifications that support maintenance of these signals throughout the immune response to C.neo. Lastly, we stipulate where these advances can be developed into new, immune-based therapeutics for treatment of this global pathogen.

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