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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 142, Issue 3 940-947, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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Toxoplasma gondii: mechanism of resistance to complement-mediated killing

SA Fuhrman and KA Joiner
Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Tachyzoites of the obligate intracellular protozoan Toxoplasma gondii are resistant to lysis in non-immune human serum. We have examined the mechanism of this serum resistance in RH and P strain organisms, which differ markedly in virulence, but are equally resistant to serum killing. Rapid, but limited, activation of the alternative complement pathway occurred in non-immune human serum, with deposition of equivalent amounts of C3 on the two strains. C component C3 bound covalently to parasite acceptor molecules via an ester linkage. The predominant form of C3 was iC3b which cannot participate in formation of a lytic C5b-9 complex. Multiple membrane constituents of the tachyzoite of T. gondii may serve as acceptors for the limited amount of C3 deposited during incubation in non-immune serum. When tachyzoites were presensitized with the lytic anti-p30 mAb 7B8, new amide-linked C3- acceptor complexes formed. Nearly equivalent C3 binding but a threefold enhancement of 125I-C9 binding occurred when mAb 7B8 pre-sensitized tachyzoites were compared to native organisms. These results indicate that tachyzoites of T. gondii are serum resistant because of failure to activate C efficiently. Presensitization with a lytic mAb alters the site of complement deposition and augments C5b-9 formation.


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