Publication Date:
2014-07-06
Description:
Tuberculosis remains second only to HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of mortality worldwide due to a single infectious agent. Despite chemotherapy, the global tuberculosis epidemic has intensified because of HIV co-infection, the lack of an effective vaccine and the emergence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria. Alternative host-directed strategies could be exploited to improve treatment efficacy and outcome, contain drug-resistant strains and reduce disease severity and mortality. The innate inflammatory response elicited by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) represents a logical host target. Here we demonstrate that interleukin-1 (IL-1) confers host resistance through the induction of eicosanoids that limit excessive type I interferon (IFN) production and foster bacterial containment. We further show that, in infected mice and patients, reduced IL-1 responses and/or excessive type I IFN induction are linked to an eicosanoid imbalance associated with disease exacerbation. Host-directed immunotherapy with clinically approved drugs that augment prostaglandin E2 levels in these settings prevented acute mortality of Mtb-infected mice. Thus, IL-1 and type I IFNs represent two major counter-regulatory classes of inflammatory cytokines that control the outcome of Mtb infection and are functionally linked via eicosanoids. Our findings establish proof of concept for host-directed treatment strategies that manipulate the host eicosanoid network and represent feasible alternatives to conventional chemotherapy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mayer-Barber, Katrin D -- Andrade, Bruno B -- Oland, Sandra D -- Amaral, Eduardo P -- Barber, Daniel L -- Gonzales, Jacqueline -- Derrick, Steven C -- Shi, Ruiru -- Kumar, Nathella Pavan -- Wei, Wang -- Yuan, Xing -- Zhang, Guolong -- Cai, Ying -- Babu, Subash -- Catalfamo, Marta -- Salazar, Andres M -- Via, Laura E -- Barry, Clifton E 3rd -- Sher, Alan -- Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jul 3;511(7507):99-103. doi: 10.1038/nature13489. Epub 2014 Jun 25.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases (LPD), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. ; 1] Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases (LPD), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA [2] Department of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Institutes, University of Sao Paulo, 05508-900 Sao Paulo, Brazil. ; T Lymphocyte Biology Unit, LPD, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. ; Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. ; Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. ; Henan Chest Hospital, 450003 Zhengzhou, China. ; 1] NIH, International Center for Excellence in Research, 600 031 Chennai, India [2] National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), 600 031 Chennai, India. ; Sino-US International Research Center for Tuberculosis, and Henan Public Health Center, 450003 Zhengzhou, China. ; 1] NIH, International Center for Excellence in Research, 600 031 Chennai, India [2] Helminth Immunology Section, LPD, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. ; Clinical and Molecular Retrovirology Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. ; Oncovir Inc., Washington, Washington DC 20008, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24990750" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Dinoprostone/antagonists & inhibitors/biosynthesis/metabolism
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Disease Models, Animal
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Female
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Humans
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Immunity, Innate/immunology
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*Immunotherapy
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Interferon Type I/antagonists & inhibitors/biosynthesis/*immunology
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Interleukin-1/*immunology
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Male
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis/*immunology
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/*immunology/microbiology/*therapy
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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