Enhanced Toll-like receptor responsiveness associated with mitogen-activated protein kinase activation in Plasmodium falciparum-infected children.

Infection and Immunity
Franca C HartgersMaria Yazdanbakhsh

Abstract

Acute Plasmodium falciparum infection is associated with strongly upregulated cytokine responses that are at least partly the result of activation of Toll-like receptors (TLRs). Whether and how TLR expression/responsiveness changes upon malarial infection is, however, currently not well understood. To assess this, we examined expression of TLRs and used the TLR ligand lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and Pam(3)Cys to stimulate peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from Ghanaian schoolchildren who live in a rural area where P. falciparum is endemic. Expression of TLR2 was higher, and responses to its ligand, Pam(3)Cys, were enhanced in P. falciparum-infected children compared to their uninfected counterparts. In cells from the same children, stimulation by Pam(3)Cys resulted in higher p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase activation and higher cytokine production. In vitro experiments confirmed that preincubation of PBMCs with P. falciparum-infected red blood cells enhanced responsiveness to TLR ligands. Taken together, the data indicate that P. falciparum-infected children in areas where malaria is endemic have an altered innate immune system, which might be important for the balance between immunity and pathology when new infectio...Continue Reading

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