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Toxoplasma gondii: evidence for interleukin-12-dependent and-independent pathways of interferon-gamma production induced by an attenuated parasite strain.

Immunity in mice infected with Toxoplasma gondii is dependent upon the ability to generate protective levels of the cytokine IFN-gamma. In this report, we present evidence that the attenuated vaccine strain, ts-4, induces the latter cytokine by both IL-12-dependent and -independent pathways. In contrast, strain ME49 appears to induce IFN-gamma wholly in dependence upon IL-12. Thus, 88% of wildtype C57BL/6 mice treated with anti-IL-12 mAb survive ts-4 infection, unlike similarly treated ME49-infected animals. Moreover, while anti-IL-12 treatment reduced early IFN-gamma and nitric oxide production to background levels in ts-4-infected scid animals, the same treatment in infected C57BL/6 mice had no effect on production of the latter mediators. In addition, we found that anti-IL-12 treatment induces 100% mortality in CD(4+)-deficient MHC class II knockout mice infected with ts-4. Finally, production of nitric oxide (a molecule implicated in parasite control) was abrogated in ts-4-infected scid mice following depletion of IFN-gamma producing NK cells. Together, our results suggest that ts-4 induces IL-12-dependent and -independent IFN-gamma production in normal mice, but ME49 induces the latter cytokine only in dependence upon IL-12. Our data, furthermore, implicate involvement of T cells in the IL-12-independent component of the IFN-gamma response.[1]

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