Methotrexate negatively acts on inflammatory responses triggered in Drosophila larva with hyperactive JAK/STAT pathway.

Developmental and Comparative Immunology
Ravi Kant YadavIndira Paddibhatla

Abstract

Drosophila is a valuable paradigm for studying tumorigenesis and cancer. Mutations causing hematopoietic aberrations and melanotic-blood-tumors found in Drosophila mutants are vastly studied. Clear understanding about the blood cells, signaling pathways and the tissues affected during hematopoietic tumor formation provide an opportunity to delineate the effects of cancer therapeutics. Using this simple hematopoietic archetype, we elucidated the effects of the anti-cancer drug, Methotrexate (MTX) on immune responses in two scenarios i.e. against wasp infection and in hematopoietic mutant, hopTum-l. Through this in vivo study we show that MTX impedes the immune responses against wasp infection including the encapsulation response. We further observed that MTX reduces the tumor penetrance in gain-of-function mutants of JAK/STAT pathway, hopTum-l. MTX is anti-inflammatory as it hinders not only the immune responses of acute inflammation as observed after wasp infestation, but also chronic inflammatory responses associated with constitutively activated JAK/STAT pathway mutant (hopTum-l) carrying blood tumors.

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