• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Myeloid Cell–Derived HIF-1α Promotes Control of Leishmania major
  • Beteiligte: Schatz, Valentin; Strüssmann, Yannic; Mahnke, Alexander; Schley, Gunnar; Waldner, Maximilian; Ritter, Uwe; Wild, Jens; Willam, Carsten; Dehne, Nathalie; Brüne, Bernhard; McNiff, Jennifer M.; Colegio, Oscar R.; Bogdan, Christian; Jantsch, Jonathan
  • Erschienen: The American Association of Immunologists, 2016
  • Erschienen in: The Journal of Immunology, 197 (2016) 10, Seite 4034-4041
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601080
  • ISSN: 0022-1767; 1550-6606
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  • Beschreibung: Abstract Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), which accumulates in mammalian host organisms during infection, supports the defense against microbial pathogens. However, whether and to what extent HIF-1α expressed by myeloid cells contributes to the innate immune response against Leishmania major parasites is unknown. We observed that Leishmania-infected humans and L. major–infected C57BL/6 mice exhibited substantial amounts of HIF-1α in acute cutaneous lesions. In vitro, HIF-1α was required for leishmanicidal activity and high-level NO production by IFN-γ/LPS-activated macrophages. Mice deficient for HIF-1α in their myeloid cell compartment had a more severe clinical course of infection and increased parasite burden in the skin lesions compared with wild-type controls. These findings were paralleled by reduced expression of type 2 NO synthase by lesional CD11b+ cells. Together, these data illustrate that HIF-1α is required for optimal innate leishmanicidal immune responses and, thereby, contributes to the cure of cutaneous leishmaniasis.
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