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A Filarial Nematode-Secreted Phosphorylcholine-Containing Glycoprotein Uncouples the B Cell Antigen Receptor from Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase-Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase by Promoting the Surface Ig-Mediated Recruitment of Src Homology 2 Domain-Containing Tyrosine Phosphatase-1 and Pac-1 Mitogen-Activated Kinase-Phosphatase¹

Maureen R. Deehan^*, William Harnett and Margaret M. Harnett^2,*

^* Department of Immunology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; and Department of Immunology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Unraveling the molecular mechanisms by which filarial nematodes, major human pathogens in the tropics, evade the host immune system remains an elusive goal. We have previously shown that excretory-secretory product-62 (ES-62), a homologue of phosphorylcholine-containing molecules that are secreted by human parasites and which is active in rodent models of filarial infection, is able to polyclonally activate certain protein tyrosine kinase and mitogen-activating protein kinase signal transduction elements in B lymphocytes. Such activation mediates desensitization of subsequent B cell Ag receptor (BCR) ligation-induced activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase-mitogen-activated protein (ErkMAP) kinase and ultimately B cell proliferation. We now show that the desensitization is due to ES-62 targeting two major regulatory sites of B cell activation. Firstly, pre-exposure to ES-62 primes subsequent BCR-mediated recruitment of SHP-1 tyrosine phosphatase to abolish recruitment of the RasErkMAP kinase cascade via the Ig-ShcGrb2Sos adaptor complex interactions. Secondly, any ongoing ErkMAP kinase signaling in ES-62-primed B cells is terminated by the MAP kinase phosphatase, Pac-1 that is activated consequently to challenge via the BCR.

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