PMID- 21269456 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110503 LR - 20211020 IS - 1743-422X (Electronic) IS - 1743-422X (Linking) VI - 8 DP - 2011 Jan 26 TI - Japanese encephalitis Virus wild strain infection suppresses dendritic cells maturation and function, and causes the expansion of regulatory T cells. PG - 39 LID - 10.1186/1743-422X-8-39 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Japanese encephalitis (JE) caused by Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) accounts for acute illness and death. However, few studies have been conducted to unveil the potential pathogenesis mechanism of JEV. Dendritic cells (DCs) are the most prominent antigen-presenting cells (APCs) which induce dual humoral and cellular responses. Thus, the investigation of the interaction between JEV and DCs may be helpful for resolving the mechanism of viral escape from immune surveillance and JE pathogenesis. RESULTS: We examined the alterations of phenotype and function of DCs including bone marrow-derived DCs (bmDCs) in vitro and spleen-derived DCs (spDCs) in vivo due to JEV P3 wild strain infection. Our results showed that JEV P3 infected DCs in vitro and in vivo. The viral infection inhibited the expression of cell maturation surface markers (CD40, CD80 and CD83) and MHCⅠ, and impaired the ability of P3-infected DCs for activating allogeneic naive T cells. In addition, P3 infection suppressed the expression of interferon (IFN)-alpha and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha but enhanced the production of chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2 (CCL2) and interleukin (IL)-10 of DCs. The infected DCs expanded the population of CD4+ Foxp3+ regulatory T cell (Treg). CONCLUSION: JEV P3 infection of DCs impaired cell maturation and T cell activation, modulated cytokine productions and expanded regulatory T cells, suggesting a possible mechanism of JE development. FAU - Cao, Shengbo AU - Cao S AD - State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China. FAU - Li, Yaoming AU - Li Y FAU - Ye, Jing AU - Ye J FAU - Yang, Xiaohong AU - Yang X FAU - Chen, Long AU - Chen L FAU - Liu, Xueqin AU - Liu X FAU - Chen, Huanchun AU - Chen H LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110126 PL - England TA - Virol J JT - Virology journal JID - 101231645 RN - 0 (Antigens, CD) RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antigens, CD/analysis MH - Cytokines/metabolism MH - Dendritic Cells/*immunology/*virology MH - Encephalitis Virus, Japanese/*immunology/*pathogenicity MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/analysis MH - Lymphocyte Activation MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory/*immunology/*virology PMC - PMC3038949 EDAT- 2011/01/29 06:00 MHDA- 2011/05/04 06:00 PMCR- 2011/01/26 CRDT- 2011/01/29 06:00 PHST- 2010/10/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/01/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/01/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/01/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/05/04 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2011/01/26 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 1743-422X-8-39 [pii] AID - 10.1186/1743-422X-8-39 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Virol J. 2011 Jan 26;8:39. doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-39.