Probing of a human proteome microarray with a recombinant pathogen protein reveals a novel mechanism by which hookworms suppress B-cell receptor signaling

Tribolet, Leon, Cantacessi, Cinzia, Pickering, Darren, Navarro, Severine, Doolan, Denise, Trieu, Angela, Fei, Huang, Chao, Yang, Hofmann, Andreas, Gasser, Robin, Giacomin, Paul, and Loukas, Alex (2015) Probing of a human proteome microarray with a recombinant pathogen protein reveals a novel mechanism by which hookworms suppress B-cell receptor signaling. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 211 (3). pp. 416-425.

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Abstract

Na-ASP-2 is an efficacious hookworm vaccine antigen. However, despite elucidation of its crystal structure and studies addressing its immunobiology, the function of Na-ASP-2 has remained elusive. We probed a 9000-protein human proteome microarray with Na-ASP-2 and showed binding to CD79A, a component of the B-cell antigen receptor complex. Na-ASP-2 bound to human B lymphocytes ex vivo and downregulated the transcription of approximately 1000 B-cell messenger RNAs (mRNAs), while only approximately 100 mRNAs were upregulated, compared with control-treated cells. The expression of a range of molecules was affected by Na-ASP-2, including factors involved in leukocyte transendothelial migration pathways and the B-cell signaling receptor pathway. Of note was the downregulated transcription of lyn and pi3k, molecules that are known to interact with CD79A and control B-cell receptor signaling processes. Together, these results highlight a previously unknown interaction between a hookworm-secreted protein and B cells, which has implications for helminth-driven immunomodulation and vaccine development. Further, the novel use of human protein microarrays to identify host-pathogen interactions, coupled with ex vivo binding studies and subsequent analyses of global gene expression in human host cells, demonstrates a new pipeline by which to explore the molecular basis of infectious diseases.

Item ID: 35979
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 0022-1899
Keywords: hookworm Necator americanus Na-ASP-2 SCP/TAPS CD79A B cell antigen receptor protein microarray host–pathogen interaction
Date Deposited: 16 Jun 2015 00:52
FoR Codes: 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1107 Immunology > 110704 Cellular Immunology @ 50%
11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1108 Medical Microbiology > 110803 Medical Parasitology @ 50%
SEO Codes: 92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920109 Infectious Diseases @ 50%
92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920108 Immune System and Allergy @ 50%
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