The Journal of Immunology, Vol 157, Issue 3 1163-1175, Copyright © 1996 by American Association of Immunologists

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The presentation of class I and class II epitopes of listeriolysin O is regulated by intracellular localization and by intercellular spread of Listeria monocytogenes

EM Hiltbold, SA Safley and HK Ziegler
Department of Microbiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

The hemolysin, listeriolysin 0 (LLO), produced by Listeria monocytogenes is both a virulence factor and an immunodominant Ag. In this study, we investigated how the lytic activity of LLO effects the context of presentation of two known LLO epitopes by either class I or class II MHC molecules. T cell hybridomas were used to monitor each peptide/MHC ligand. APCs infected with strains of Listeria expressing hemolytic LLO strongly presented the class I MHC epitope; however, this ligand was not well presented by cells infected with nonhemolytic Listeria. In contrast, there was almost no presentation of the class II- binding LLO epitope in cells infected with fully hemolytic Listeria. Only hemolysin-deficient Listeria were presented by class II MHC. Listeria expressing wild-type LLO but deficient in other virulence factors showed a presentation pattern equivalent to that of hemolytic Listeria. To address further the divergence of presentation, we used an intercellular spread assay to detect Ag presentation by cells neighboring the primarily infected one. We found that hemolytic Listeria were presented by both class I and II MHC on cells adjacent to the initially infected one(s). Finally, our kinetic analysis of presentation revealed that the class II ligand is presented over 4 h before the class I ligand. We have demonstrated that LLO's lytic activity potentiates presentation of listerial Ags by class I MHC and inhibits presentation via class II MHC. LLO-mediated intracellular localization (cytoplasmic vs endosomal) of bacteria corresponds to the operative presentation pathway.

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