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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 134, Issue 5 3420-3425, Copyright © 1985 by American Association of Immunologists

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Macrophage activation for microbicidal activity against Leishmania major: inhibition of lymphokine activation by phosphatidylcholine- phosphatidylserine liposomes

MJ Gilbreath, CA Nacy, DL Hoover, CR Alving, GM Swartz Jr and MS Meltzer

Resident peritoneal macrophages from untreated mice develop microbicidal activity against amastigotes of the protozoan parasite Leishmania tropica (current nomenclature = Leishmania major) after in vitro exposure to LK from antigen-stimulated leukocyte culture fluids. This LK-induced macrophage microbicidal activity was completely abrogated by addition of 7:3 phosphatidylcholine: phosphatidylserine liposomes. Liposome inhibition was not due to direct toxic effects against the parasite or macrophage effector cell; factors in LK that induce macrophage microbicidal activity were not adsorbed or destroyed by liposome treatment. Other phagocytic particles, such as latex beads, had no effect on microbicidal activity. Moreover, liposome inhibition of activated macrophage effector function was relatively selective: LK- induced macrophage tumoricidal activity was not affected by liposome treatment. Liposome inhibition was dependent upon liposome dose (5 nmoles/culture) and time of addition of leishmania-infected, LK-treated macrophage cultures. Addition of liposomes through the initial 8 hr of culture completely inhibited LK-induced macrophage microbicidal activity; liposomes added after 16 hr had no effect. Similarly, microbicidal activity by macrophages activated in vivo by BCG or Corynebacterium parvum was not affected by liposome treatment. Liposome treatment also did not affect the increased resistance to infection induced in macrophages by LK. These data suggest that liposomes interfere with one or more early events in the induction of activated macrophages (macrophage-LK interaction) and not with the cytotoxic mechanism itself (parasite-macrophage interaction). These studies add to the growing body of data that implicate cell lipid in regulatory events controlling macrophage effector function.


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