title: Advances in gastropod immunity from the study of the interaction between the snail Biomphalaria glabrata and its parasites: A review of research progress over the last decade.
abstract: This review summarizes the research progress made over the past decade in the field of gastropod immunity resulting from investigations of the interaction between the snail Biomphalaria glabrata and its trematode parasites. A combination of integrated approaches, including cellular, genetic and comparative molecular and proteomic approaches have revealed novel molecular components involved in mediating Biomphalaria immune responses that provide insights into the nature of host-parasite compatibility and the mechanisms involved in parasite recognition and killing. The current overview emphasizes that the interaction between B. glabrata and its trematode parasites involves a complex molecular crosstalk between numerous antigens, immune receptors, effectors and anti-effector systems that are highly diverse structurally and extremely variable in expression between and within host and parasite populations. Ultimately, integration of these molecular signals will determine the outcome of a specific interaction between a B. glabrata individual and its interacting trematodes. Understanding these complex molecular interactions and identifying key factors that may be targeted to impairment of schistosome development in the snail host is crucial to generating new alternative schistosomiasis control strategies.
authors: Sophia Agrobiotech Institute, INRA-CNRS-UNS, Sophia Antipolis, France.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Coustau
authors: Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, IHPE UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ. Montpellier, F-66860 Perpignan, France.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Gourbal
authors: Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, IHPE UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ. Montpellier, F-66860 Perpignan, France.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Duval
authors: Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
authors: T P
authors: TP
authors: Yoshino
authors: Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
authors: C M
authors: CM
authors: Adema
authors: Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, IHPE UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ. Montpellier, F-66860 Perpignan, France. Electronic address: mitta@univ-perp.fr.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Mitta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001700:Biomphalaria / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology*; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014200:Trematoda / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Biomphalaria glabrata; Compatibility; Echinostoma caproni; Immunity; Schistosoma mansoni