Importance of beta2-microglobulin in murine resistance to mucosal and systemic candidiasis.

Infection and Immunity
E BalishT Warner

Abstract

beta2-Microglobulin knockout (beta2m-/-) mice, which lack major histocompatibility complex class I expression and are deficient in CD8alpha/beta T-cell receptor alpha/beta (TcRalpha/beta) T cells, were as resistant to systemic (intravenous) challenge with Candida albicans as immunocompetent controls. Conversely, the beta2m-/- mutant mice were susceptible to systemic candidiasis of endogenous origin despite the induction of C. albicans-specific antibody and cell-mediated immune responses after colonization with a pure culture of C. albicans. Despite some superficial and transient infections of tongues and esophagi (detected by histology) at 1 to 2 weeks after oral colonization and gastric infections (cardia-antrum section) which were observed at 10 to 12 weeks after oral challenge, C. albicans-colonized beta2m-/- mice showed an overall resistance to candidiasis in other mucosal and cutaneous tissues. These data suggest that immune defects that accompany the loss of beta2-microglobulin play an important role in murine resistance to gastric and disseminated candidiasis of endogenous (intestinal tract) origin and that innate immunity and CD4 TcRalpha/beta as well as CD8alpha/alpha TcRalpha/beta (or -gamma/delta) T cells play an imp...Continue Reading

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