Expression of interleukin-1beta, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and interleukin-6 in human peripheral blood leukocytes exposed to human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent or recombinant major surface protein P44.

Abstract:

:Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) is an emerging febrile systemic disease caused by the HGE agent, an obligatory intracellular bacterium of granulocytes. The pathogenicity- and immunity-related mechanisms of HGE are unknown. In this study, several cytokines generated in human peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) incubated with the HGE agent or a recombinant 44-kDa major surface protein (rP44) of the HGE agent were examined by reverse transcription-PCR and a capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The HGE agent induced expression of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), and IL-6 mRNAs and proteins in PBLs in a dose-dependent manner to levels as high as those resulting from Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide stimulation. The kinetics of induction of these three cytokines in PBLs by rP44 and by the HGE agent were similar. Proteinase K treatment of the HGE agent or rP44 eliminated the ability to induce these three cytokines. Induction of these cytokine mRNAs was not dependent on superoxide generation. These results suggest that P44 proteins have a major role in inducing the production of proinflammatory cytokines by PBLs. Expression of IL-8, IL-10, gamma interferon, transforming growth factor beta, and IL-2 mRNAs in response to the HGE agent was not remarkable. Among PBLs, neutrophils and lymphocytes expressed IL-1beta mRNA but not TNF-alpha or IL-6 mRNA in response to the HGE agent, whereas monocytes expressed all three of these cytokine mRNAs. These observations suggest that induction of proinflammatory-cytokine gene expression by the major outer membrane protein of the HGE agent in monocytes, which are not the primary host cells of the HGE agent, contributes to HGE pathogenesis and immunomodulation.

journal_name

Infect Immun

journal_title

Infection and immunity

authors

Kim HY,Rikihisa Y

doi

10.1128/iai.68.6.3394-3402.2000

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-06-01 00:00:00

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3394-402

issue

6

eissn

0019-9567

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1098-5522

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68

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