Molecular aspects involved in the apoptosis of mononuclear cells of patients with paracoccidioidomycosis. / Aspectos moleculares envolvidos na apoptose de células mononucleares em pacientes com paracoccidioidomicose.

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2008

RESUMO

The T-cell hypoproliferative reactivity observed in the immune response to P. brasiliensis antigens of patients with active paracoccidioidomycosis probably contributes to the failure of the host in controlling the infection, leading to a disseminated disease. It is, however, largely reversible with treatment in most patients. The mechanisms leading to this hyporresponsiveness are not well known. We have previously demonstrated that patientsmononuclear cells in presence of gp43 exhibit enhanced apoptotic levels. I an attempt to explain such findings, we hypothethized that these cells were inadequately activated due to altered costimulatory molecules expression, such as CD80, CD86, CD28, CD152, ICOS e PD-1. Expression of these molecules were evaluated on T-cells and monocytes of the peripheral blood of patients with active, disseminated PCM (n = 7...), and healthy individuals with a past history of treated and cured PCM (n = 2...). These cells were cultured in presence of a Candida albicans metabolic antigen (CMA), gp43, or kept without exogenous stimuli for 4 days. Our results show tgat the expression of CD28 was comparable between patients an controlscells, and that CD152, PD-1 e ICOS, all of which known to deliver negative costimulatory signaling and to arrest cell cycle entry, were overexpressed in patientsT-cells. In parallel, we performed additional experiments where the respective costimulatory signalings were blocked by addition of blocking antibodies specific to each of these molecules. Whatever the blocking antibody used, there was no reversal of the hypoproliferative state of patientsT-cells. However, while the expression of the CD80 and CD86 molecules on monocytes was similar between controls and patients, their expression on T-cells was significantly higher in patients. Adding the respective blocking antibodies at day zero of the culture, we could observe that both the gp43 and the CMA responses were inhibited, but differentially according to the antibody employed. In both patients and controls the blocking CD86 signaling decreased the response to gp43 and CMA of patients and controls, while blocking of CD80 signaling decreased only the response to gp43, and only in the control group. These data suggest that different antigens may have different costimulatory requirements for antigen presentation. Addition of the antibodies at the ay 4 of culture did not restore the lymphoproliferative response or modified the response of the controls. Our results suggest that the hypothesis, raised from other models of prolonged foreign antigen exposure, that repetitive and persistent in vivo exposure to fungal antigens, which is described in patients with PCM, lead the T-cells to a adaptive tolerant state, which is hardly reverted in vitro. We then investigated the fate of such putatively tolerized patientscells, by analyzing the role that apoptosis may have in this tolerant state. We observed that expression of the antiapoptotic molecule Bcl-2 was lower in patientscells, even when the cells were in vitro reestimulated with CMA and gp43, suggesting that the cells are more susceptible to undergo apoptosis. When then analyzed the expression of the active form of the caspase 8 and 9 molecules. We first analyzed their expression on cells kept in cultures for 4 days with or without stimuli. Unexpectedly, we observed that controlscells, and not patientscells, exhibited higher levels of expression of both molecules. To explore further these data, we tested the hypothesis that the patientscells were already undergoing apoptosis at an earlier than 4 days stage. Caspases expression were therefore analyzed ex vivo. In fact, we observed that TCD3+ cells exhibited markedly enhanced caspase 8 and expression as compared to controlscells. These findings may help to explain why we failed to redress the proliferative responses to gp43 in the experiments where blocking antibodies were added: these cells would be committed to apoptotic death, thus refractory to in vitro manipulations, as described for adaptively tolerant T-cells.

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tolerância adaptativa de células t expression of caspase 8 and caspase 9 paracoccidioidomycosis paracoccidioides brasiliensis costimulatory molecules antiapoptotic molecule expressão de caspase 8 e caspase 9 moléculas co-stimulatórias paracoccidioides brasiliensis moléculas anti-apoptóticas paracoccidioidomicose adaptively tolerant t-cell

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