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JCS ePress online publication date 2 Dec 2003
doi: 10.1242/jcs.00860

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Dendritic cells as host cells for the promastigote and amastigote stages of Leishmania amazonensis: the role of opsonins in parasite uptake and dendritic cell maturation


Eric Prina*, Sofiane Zaki Abdi, Maï Lebastard, Emmanuelle Perret, Nathalie Winter, and Jean-Claude Antoine
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: eprina{at}pasteur.fr)

In their mammalian hosts, Leishmania are obligate intracellular parasites that mainly reside in macrophages. They are also phagocytosed by dendritic cells (DCs), which play decisive roles in the induction and shaping of T cell-dependent immune responses. Little is known about the role of DCs in the Leishmania life cycle. Here, we examined the ability of mouse bone marrow-derived DCs to serve as hosts for L. amazonensis. Both infective stages of Leishmania (metacyclic promastigotes and amastigotes) could be phagocytosed by DCs, regardless of whether they had previously been experimentally opsonized with either the complement C3 component or specific antibodies. Parasites could survive and even multiply in these cells for at least 72 hours, within parasitophorous vacuoles displaying phagolysosomal characteristics and MHC class II and H-2M molecules. We then studied the degree of maturation reached by infected DCs according to the parasite stage internalised and the type of opsonin used. The cell surface expression of CD24, CD40, CD54, CD80, CD86, OX40L and MHC class II molecules was barely altered following infection with unopsonized promastigotes or amastigotes from nude mice or with C3-coated promastigotes. Even 69 hours post-phagocytosis, a large proportion of infected DCs remained phenotypically immature. In contrast, internalisation of antibody-opsonized promastigotes or amastigotes induced DCs to mature rapidly, as shown by the over-expression of co-stimulatory, adhesion and MHC class II molecules. Thus, in the absence of specific antibodies (e.g. shortly after infecting naive mammals), infected DCs may remain immature or semi-mature, meaning that they are unable to elicit an efficient anti-Leishmania T cell response. Absence of DC maturation or delayed/incomplete DC maturation could thus be beneficial for the parasites, allowing their establishment and amplification before the onset of immune responses.
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