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Malaria infection begins when a female  Anopheles  mosquito injects  Plasmodium  sporozoites into the skin of its host during blood feeding. Skin-deposited sporozoites may enter the bloodstream and infect the liver, reside and develop in the skin, or migrate to the draining lymph nodes (DLNs). Importantly, the DLN is where protective CD8 +  T cell responses against malaria liver stages are induced after a dermal route of infection. However, the significance of parasites in the skin and DLN to CD8 +  T cell activation is largely unknown. In this study, we used genetically modified parasites, as well as antibody-mediated immobilization of sporozoites, to determine that active sporozoite migration to the DLNs is required for robust CD8 +  T cell responses. Through dynamic  in vivo  and static imaging, we show the direct uptake of parasites by lymph-node resident DCs followed by CD8 +  T cell-DC cluster formation, a surrogate for antigen presentation, in the DLNs. A few hours after sporozoite arrival to the DLNs, CD8 +  T cells are primed by resident CD8α +  DCs with no apparent role for skin-derived DCs. Together, these results establish a critical role for lymph node resident CD8α +  DCs in CD8 +  T cell priming to sporozoite antigens while emphasizing a requirement for motile sporozoites in the induction of CD8 +  T cell-mediated immunity.

Lymph-Node Resident CD8α+ Dendritic Cells Capture Antigens from Migratory Malaria Sporozoites and Induce CD8+ T Cell Responses