Regulation of inflammation and protection against invasive pneumococcal infection by the long pentraxin PTX3

© 2023, Porte, Silva-Gomes et al..

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major pathogen in children, elderly subjects, and immunodeficient patients. Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a fluid-phase pattern recognition molecule (PRM) involved in resistance to selected microbial agents and in regulation of inflammation. The present study was designed to assess the role of PTX3 in invasive pneumococcal infection. In a murine model of invasive pneumococcal infection, PTX3 was strongly induced in non-hematopoietic (particularly, endothelial) cells. The IL-1β/MyD88 axis played a major role in regulation of the Ptx3 gene expression. Ptx3-/- mice presented more severe invasive pneumococcal infection. Although high concentrations of PTX3 had opsonic activity in vitro, no evidence of PTX3-enhanced phagocytosis was obtained in vivo. In contrast, Ptx3-deficient mice showed enhanced recruitment of neutrophils and inflammation. Using P-selectin-deficient mice, we found that protection against pneumococcus was dependent upon PTX3-mediated regulation of neutrophil inflammation. In humans, PTX3 gene polymorphisms were associated with invasive pneumococcal infections. Thus, this fluid-phase PRM plays an important role in tuning inflammation and resistance against invasive pneumococcal infection.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

eLife - 12(2023) vom: 24. Mai

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Porte, Rémi [VerfasserIn]
Silva-Gomes, Rita [VerfasserIn]
Theroude, Charlotte [VerfasserIn]
Parente, Raffaella [VerfasserIn]
Asgari, Fatemeh [VerfasserIn]
Sironi, Marina [VerfasserIn]
Pasqualini, Fabio [VerfasserIn]
Valentino, Sonia [VerfasserIn]
Asselta, Rosanna [VerfasserIn]
Recordati, Camilla [VerfasserIn]
Monari, Marta Noemi [VerfasserIn]
Doni, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Inforzato, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez-Gallego, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Obando, Ignacio [VerfasserIn]
Colino, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Bottazzi, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Mantovani, Alberto [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Endothelial cells
Immunology
Infectious disease
Inflammation
Journal Article
Microbiology
Mouse
Neuronal pentraxin
Neutrophils
P-selectin
Pentraxin 3
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Date Completed 19.06.2023

Date Revised 19.06.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.7554/eLife.78601

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357248147