Mast cell-dependent down-regulation of antigen-specific immune responses by mosquito bites.
While probing host skin to search for blood vessels, the female Anopheles mosquito delivers Plasmodium parasites in the presence of saliva. Saliva from various blood-feeding vectors which contains several pharmacologically active components is believed to facilitate blood feeding as well as parasite transmission to the host. Recently, we found that mosquito saliva has the capacity to activate dermal mast cells and to induce local inflammatory cell influx. Our main objective in the present work is to investigate whether saliva, through mosquito bites, controls the magnitude of Ag-specific immune responses and whether this control is dependent on the mast cell-mediated inflammatory response. Using a mast cell knockin mouse model, we found that mosquito bites consistently induced MIP-2 in the skin and IL-10 in draining lymph nodes, and down-regulate Ag-specific T cell responses by a mechanism dependent on mast cells and mediated by IL-10. Our results provide evidence for new mechanisms which may operate during Plasmodium parasite transmission by mosquito bites.
Unité des Réponses Précoces aux Parasites et Immunopathologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Nadya
N
Depinay
Fériel
F
Hacini
Walid
W
Beghdadi
Roger
R
Peronet
Salaheddine
S
Mécheri
D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000276:immunology*; D000941:Antigens / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000276:immunology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D019743:Chemokines, CXC / Q000378:metabolism; D016207:Cytokines / Q000378:metabolism; D015536:Down-Regulation; D005260:Female; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D008407:Mast Cells / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D012463:Saliva / Q000276:immunology; D012867:Skin / Q000276:immunology; D013997:Time Factors
D000941:Antigens; D019743:Chemokines, CXC; D016207:Cytokines; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins