Abstract
The inability of the cattle pathogen Trypanosoma brucei brucei to infect humans is due to an innate factor in human serum termed Trypanosome Lytic Factor (TLF). Human haptoglobin-related protein is the proposed toxin in TLF and can exist either as a component of a minor subclass of high-density lipoprotein (TLF-1) or as a lipid free, high molecular weight protein complex (TLF-2). The trypanolytic activity of both TLF-1 and TLF-2 has been studied in vitro but their relative contributions to protection against T. b. brucei infection in vivo has not been established. In the present studies we show that treatment of T. b. brucei infected mice with TLF-1 resulted in a dose dependent decrease in parasite numbers but did not affect parasite numbers in mice infected with Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, the causative agent of the human sleeping sickness. Similarly, pretreatment of mice with TLF-1 resulted in protection against a challenge by T. b. brucei but had no effect on T. b. rhodesiense challenge. Induction of the acute phase protein haptoglobin, a natural antagonist of TLF-1, diminished but did not abolish the protection against trypanosome challenge. In addition, haptoglobin knockout mice showed higher levels of TLF-1 mediated p...Continue Reading
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