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* Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland;
Institut Cochin, Departement d’Immunologie, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France;
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche, Paris, France; and
¶ Université Rene Descartes, Paris, France
A substantial and protective response against malaria liver stages is directed against the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) and involves induction of CD8+ T cells and production of IFN-
. CSP-derived peptides have been shown to be presented on the surface of infected hepatocytes in the context of MHC class I molecules. However, little is known about how the CSP and other sporozoite Ags are processed and presented to CD8+ T cells. We investigated how primary hepatocytes from BALB/c mice process the CSP of Plasmodium berghei after live sporozoite infection and present CSP-derived peptides to specific H-2Kd-restricted CD8+ T cells in vitro. Using both wild-type and spect–/– P. berghei sporozoites, we show that both infected and traversed primary hepatocytes process and present the CSP. The processing and presentation pathway was found to involve the proteasome, Ag transport through a postendoplasmic reticulum compartment, and aspartic proteases. Thus, it can be hypothesized that infected hepatocytes can contribute in vivo to the elicitation and expansion of a T cell response.
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1 This work was supported by European Community Grant QLK 2-CT-2002-00700.
2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Giampietro Corradin, Department of Biochemistry, Chemin des Boveresses 155, Epalinges, Switzerland. E-mail address: Giampietro.Corradin{at}unil.ch
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: CSP, circumsporozoite; SPECT, sporozoite microneme protein essential for cell traversal; wt, wild type; BFA, brefeldin A; LLnL, N-acetyl-L-leucyl-L-leucyl-L-norleucinal; Cbz-LLL, carbobenzoxyl-leucinyl-leucinyl-leucinal; ICS, intracellular cytokine staining; RT, room temperature; DAPI, 4',6'-diamidino-2-phenylindole; EEF, exoerythrocytic form; GdCl, gadolinium chloride; DC, dendritic cell; HSP, heat shock protein.
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