A Shift from Cellular to Humoral Responses Contributes to Innate Immune Memory in the Vector Snail Biomphalaria glabrata

PLoS Pathogens

Marie-Aude Olive¹  André Théron²  Guillaume Mitta³  Fanny C. Nowacki⁴  Julien Portela⁴  Jean-François Allienne⁴  Benjamin Gourbal⁴  Silvain Pinaud⁴  Nolwenn M. Dheilly⁴  Richard Galinier⁴  David Duval⁴  Sylvie Kieffer-Jaquinod⁴ 

[1] Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth Ceredigion, United Kingdom;Plate-forme d'analyses protéomiques EDyP-Service, Laboratoire de Biologie à Grande Echelle UMR-S 1038 Inserm/CEA/UJF CEA, Grenoble, France;School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America;University of Perpignan Via Domitia, IHPE UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, University of Montpellier, Perpignan, France

关键词: Immune response;    Snails;    Schistosoma mansoni;    Parasitic diseases;    Invertebrates;    Small interfering RNAs;    Memory;    Humoral immune response;   

DOI  :  10.1371/journal.ppat.1005361

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Public Library of Science

【 摘 要 】

Discoveries made over the past ten years have provided evidence that invertebrate antiparasitic responses may be primed in a sustainable manner, leading to the failure of a secondary encounter with the same pathogen. This phenomenon called “immune priming” or "innate immune memory" was mainly phenomenological. The demonstration of this process remains to be obtained and the underlying mechanisms remain to be discovered and exhaustively tested with rigorous functional and molecular methods, to eliminate all alternative explanations. In order to achieve this ambitious aim, the present study focuses on the Lophotrochozoan snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, in which innate immune memory was recently reported. We provide herein the first evidence that a shift from a cellular immune response (encapsulation) to a humoral immune response (biomphalysin) occurs during the development of innate memory. The molecular characterisation of this process in Biomphalaria/Schistosoma system was undertaken to reconcile mechanisms with phenomena, opening the way to a better comprehension of innate immune memory in invertebrates. This prompted us to revisit the artificial dichotomy between innate and memory immunity in invertebrate systems.

【 授权许可】

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