Complement component C3 is required for protective innate and adaptive immunity to larval strongyloides stercoralis in mice.
Publication/Presentation Date
4-1-2006
Abstract
This study examines the role of complement components C3 and C5 in innate and adaptive protective immunity to larval Strongyloides stercoralis in mice. Larval survival in naive C3(-/-) mice was increased as compared with survival in wild-type mice, whereas C3aR(-/-) and wild-type mice had equivalent levels of larval killing. Larval killing in naive mice was shown to be a coordinated effort between effector cells and C3. There was no difference between survival in wild-type and naive C5(-/-) mice, indicating that C5 was not required during the innate immune response. Naive B cell-deficient and wild-type mice killed larvae at comparable levels, suggesting that activation of the classical complement pathway was not required for innate immunity. Adaptive immunity was equivalent in wild-type and C5(-/-) mice; thus, C5 was also not required during the adaptive immune response. Larval killing was completely ablated in immunized C3(-/-) mice, even though the protective parasite-specific IgM response developed and effector cells were recruited. Protective immunity was restored to immunized C3(-/-) mice by transferring untreated naive serum, but not C3-depleted heat-inactivated serum to the location of the parasites. Finally, immunized C3aR(-/-) mice killed larvae during the adaptive immune response as efficiently as wild-type mice. Therefore, C3 was not required for the development of adaptive immunity, but was required for the larval killing process during both protective innate and adaptive immune responses in mice against larval S. stercoralis.
Volume
176
Issue
7
First Page
4315
Last Page
4322
ISSN
0022-1767
Published In/Presented At
Kerepesi, L. A., Hess, J. A., Nolan, T. J., Schad, G. A., & Abraham, D. (2006). Complement component C3 is required for protective innate and adaptive immunity to larval strongyloides stercoralis in mice. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 176(7), 4315–4322. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.176.7.4315
Disciplines
Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Health and Medical Administration | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
PubMedID
16547268
Department(s)
Administration and Leadership
Document Type
Article