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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 147, Issue 10 3501-3506, Copyright © 1991 by American Association of Immunologists
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IA Khan, KH Ely and LH Kasper
Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03756.
Induction of protective immunity against acute and chronic toxoplasmosis can be achieved using p30, the major membrane and excreted/secreted protein of Toxoplasma gondii. This protein, when administered to outbred mice in the presence of the saponin Quil A, is able to induce almost 100% protection against acute infection without evidence of intracerebral cyst development. Adoptive transfer of immune splenocytes from immunized inbred A/J mice conferred a significant level (p less than 0.001) of protection against subsequent challenge. Phenotypic analysis in outbred as well as two different strains of inbred mice (A/J and C57BL/6) demonstrated that CD8+ T cells are selectively stimulated by this immunization protocol. T cell depletion studies using specific mAb directed at either CD3+ or CD8+ T cell phenotype, followed by adoptive transfer, failed to confer protective immunity, whereas CD4+ depletion had no effect. These cytotoxic CD8+ T cells produced high titers of both IFN-gamma and IL-2. Moreover, these CD8+ T cells were directly parasiticidal against radiolabeled extracellular T. gondii, further supporting the critical immune function of these p30 Ag-specific CD8+ T cells in host immunity against T. gondii infection.
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