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Tick saliva inhibits differentiation, maturation and function of murine bone‐marrow‐derived dendritic cells
Author(s) -
Cavassani Karen A.,
Aliberti Júlio C.,
Dias Alexandra R. V.,
Silva João S.,
Ferreira Beatriz R.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.297
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1365-2567
pISSN - 0019-2805
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2004.02079.x
Subject(s) - biology , cd80 , cd86 , saliva , immunology , immune system , cd40 , antigen , antigen presentation , major histocompatibility complex , dendritic cell , population , microbiology and biotechnology , t cell , cytotoxic t cell , in vitro , medicine , biochemistry , environmental health
Summary Haematophagous arthropod vectors such as mosquitoes, tsetse flies, sandflies and ticks have evolved salivary immunomodulatory factors that prevent the vertebrate host from rejecting them meanwhile enhancing pathogen transmission. As dendritic cells (DC) play a major role in host immune responses, we studied the effects of Rhipicephalus sanguineus tick saliva on DC differentiation and maturation. Flow cytometry analysis revealed that the addition of saliva to bone marrow cells inhibits the differentiation of DC and decreased the population of differentiated immature DC, increasing the levels of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II while not altering the expression of costimulatory (CD40, CD80 and CD86) and adhesion (CD54) molecules. Furthermore, maturation of DC stimulated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the presence of saliva resulted in a lower expression of costimulatory molecules, but did not alter the up‐regulation of MHC class II and CD54. The lipopolysaccharide (LPS)‐matured DC cultured with saliva also presented reduced production of interleukin‐12, whereas interleukin‐10 production was unaltered. Assessment of the function of DC cultured with tick saliva revealed them to be poor stimulators of cytokine production by antigen‐specific T cells. Our data indicate a novel modulatory role for the saliva of arthropod vectors at an initial step of the immune response through the inhibition of differentiation and maturation of DC into functional antigen‐presenting cells.