title: Cellular requirements for systemic control of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infections in mice.
abstract: The rational design of vaccines requires an understanding of the contributions of individual immune cell subsets to immunity. With this understanding, targeted vaccine delivery approaches and adjuvants can be developed to maximize vaccine efficiency and to minimize side effects (S. H. E. Kaufmann et al., Immunity 33:555-577, 2010; T. Ben-Yedidia and R. Arnon, Hum. Vaccines 1:95-101, 2005). We have addressed the contributions of different immune cell subsets and their ability to contribute to the control and clearance of the facultative intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) in a murine model. Using a systematic and reproducible model of experimental attenuated S. Typhimurium infection, we show that distinct lymphocyte deficiencies lead to one of four different infection outcomes: clearance, chronic infection, early death, or late death. Our study demonstrates a high level of functional redundancy in the ability of different lymphocyte subsets to provide interferon gamma (IFN-γ), a critical cytokine in Salmonella immunity. Whereas early control of the infection was entirely dependent on IFN-γ but not on any particular lymphocyte subset, clearance of the infection critically required CD4(+) T cells but appeared to be independent of IFN-γ. These data reinforce the idea of a bimodal immune response against Salmonella: an early T cell-independent but IFN-γ-dependent phase and a late T cell-dependent phase that may be IFN-γ independent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany Queensland Tropical Health Alliance Research Laboratory, James Cook University, Cairns Campus, Smithfield, Queensland, Australia kupz@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de rastru@unimelb.edu.au.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kupz
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Sammy
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bedoui
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia kupz@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de rastru@unimelb.edu.au.
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Strugnell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000378:metabolism; D016131:Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology*; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D012481:Salmonella Infections, Animal / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D007371:Interferon-gamma