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Nappi AJ, Frey F, Carton Y. Drosophila serpin 27A is a likely target for immune suppression of the blood cell-mediated melanotic encapsulation response. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 51:197-205. [PMID: 15749104 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2004.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2004] [Revised: 10/06/2004] [Accepted: 10/07/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Avirulent strains of the endoparasitoid Leptopilina boulardi succumb to a blood cell-mediated melanotic encapsulation response in host larvae of Drosophila melanogaster. Virulent wasp strains effectively abrogate the cellular response with substances introduced into the host that specifically target and effectively suppress one or more immune signaling pathways, including elements that control phenoloxidase-mediated melanotic encapsulation. The present study implicates involvement of the Drosophila Toll pathway in cellular innate immunity by regulating the serine protease inhibitor Serpin 27A (Spn27A), which normally functions as a negative regulator of phenoloxidase. The introduction of Spn27A into normally highly immune competent D. melanogaster larvae significantly reduced their ability to form melanotic capsules around eggs of L. boulardi. This study confirms the role of Spn27A in the melanization cascade and establishes that this pathway and associated blood cell responses can be activated by parasitization. The activation of phenoloxidase and the site-specific localization of the ensuing melanotic response are such critical components of the blood cell response that Spn27A and the signaling elements mediating its activity are likely to represent prime targets for immune suppression by L. boulardi.
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- A J Nappi
- Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1556 Linden Drive, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
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Morales J, Chiu H, Oo T, Plaza R, Hoskins S, Govind S. Biogenesis, structure, and immune-suppressive effects of virus-like particles of a Drosophila parasitoid, Leptopilina victoriae. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 51:181-195. [PMID: 15749103 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2004.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2004] [Revised: 11/02/2004] [Accepted: 11/02/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Drosophila melanogaster larvae are attacked by virulent strains of parasitoid wasps. Females of Leptopilina heterotoma produce virus-like particles (VLPs) that efficiently destroy lamellocytes, a major larval immune effector cell type. We report here that L. victoriae, a closely related wasp species, also produces VLPs that trigger immune suppression responses in fly hosts. We compare the ability of immune suppression of the two parasitoids using a mutant host strain hopscotch(Tumorous-lethal) (hop(Tum-l)). hop(Tum-l) larvae have two defects of hematopoietic origin: overproliferation of hemocytes and constitutive encapsulation of self-tissue by lamellocytes. The encapsulation phenotype is suppressed weakly by L. victoriae and strongly by L. heterotoma. In vitro studies on hop(Tum-l) lamellocytes show that VLP-containing fluid from either wasp species induces lamellocyte lysis, but with different kinetics. Previously undocumented precursors of L. victoriae VLPs are synthesized in the long gland and are first visible within canals connecting secretory cells to the long gland lumen. VLP assembly occurs in the lumen. VLPs show multiple electron-dense projections surrounding a central core. Maturing particles appear segmented, singly or in arrays, embedded in the reservoir matrix. In sections, mature particles are pentagonal or hexagonal; the polygon vertices extending into spikes. Our results suggest that L. victoriae is likely to promote immune suppression by an active mechanism that is mediated by VLPs, similar to that used by L. heterotoma.
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- Jorge Morales
- Biology Program, The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
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Labrosse C, Eslin P, Doury G, Drezen JM, Poirié M. Haemocyte changes in D. Melanogaster in response to long gland components of the parasitoid wasp Leptopilina boulardi: a Rho-GAP protein as an important factor. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 51:161-170. [PMID: 15749101 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2004.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2004] [Accepted: 10/11/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The hymenopteran wasp Leptopilina boulardi (Figitidae) is a larval solitary parasitoid of Drosophila larvae of the melanogaster sub-group. The factors used by parasitoid females to prevent encapsulation of their eggs by the host are localized in the female long gland and reservoir. We report here the physiological effects of these factors on host haemocytes using in vivo injection experiments. The total number of haemocytes, the number of plasmatocytes and the number of crystal cells were not modified by injection of long gland extracts. In contrast, long gland extracts either from virulent or avirulent strains had a significant effect on the lamellocyte number. Compared to the Ringer control, the avirulent long gland products induced an increase of the lamellocyte number while virulent extracts induced a drastic decrease together with an alteration of the morphology of these cells. Interestingly, changes in the lamellocyte morphology were also observed following injection of the P4 protein, a major component of L. boulardi female long glands that displays a strong immune suppressive effect on Drosophila larvae. The implication of the P4 protein in suppressing the host cellular immunity is discussed in correlation with its predicted molecular function as a Rho-GAP protein.
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- C Labrosse
- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte UMR CNRS 6035, Université F. Rabelais, Parc Grandmont, 37 200 Tours, France
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Labrosse C, Stasiak K, Lesobre J, Grangeia A, Huguet E, Drezen JM, Poirie M. A RhoGAP protein as a main immune suppressive factor in the Leptopilina boulardi (Hymenoptera, Figitidae)-Drosophila melanogaster interaction. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 35:93-103. [PMID: 15681220 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2004.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2004] [Accepted: 10/18/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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To protect its eggs, the endoparasitoid wasp Leptopilina boulardi injects immune suppressive factors into Drosophila melanogaster host larvae. These factors are localized in the female long gland and reservoir. We analyzed the protein content of these tissues and found that it strongly differed between virulent and avirulent parasitoid strains. Four protein bands present in virulent long glands were eluted and their immune suppressive effect was assessed in vivo, allowing demonstrating a major effect of one of these proteins. The corresponding cDNA encodes a predicted 30 kDa subunit containing a Ras homologous GTPase Activating Protein (RhoGAP) domain, suggesting a possible involvement in the regulation of actin cytoskeleton changes. Using Western-blot experiments, we showed that this protein is abundant in virulent female long glands but is undetectable in virulent females deprived of long glands or in long glands from avirulent wasps. Its potential role in modifying the morphology and the adhesive properties of the host lamellocytes, involved in Drosophila cellular immune responses, is discussed.
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- C Labrosse
- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte UPRESA CNRS 6035, IFR Agents transmissibles et Infectiologie, Université F. Rabelais, Parc Grandmont, 37200 Tours France
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Prevost G, Eslin P, Doury G, Moreau SJM, Guillot S. Asobara, braconid parasitoids of Drosophila larvae: unusual strategies to avoid encapsulation without VLPs. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 51:171-179. [PMID: 15749102 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2004.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2004] [Revised: 10/06/2004] [Accepted: 10/06/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Ichneumonoidae parasitoids have been well described for their regulatory effects on host physiology which are usually associated with the activity of polydnaviruses (PDVs) or viruslike-particles (VLPs) injected by the female wasps at oviposition. Among them, parasitoids of the braconid families display specific characteristics like the required activity of secretions from the maternal venom glands or of teratocytes from embryological origin. However, none of these features were observed in two braconid species of the Asobara genus parasitizing Drosophila hosts. In the absence of PDVs and VLPs, the two species A. tabida and A. citri seem to have developed unique strategies to avoid immunity defenses and to succeed in their Drosophila larval hosts. The aim of this study is to report on the complex relationships of braconid parasitoids with their hosts and to present some of the insights from studying Drosophila parasitoids.
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- G Prevost
- Laboratoire de Biologie des Entomophages, Université de Picardie--Jules Verne, 33 rue Saint Leu, 80039 Amiens cedex, France.
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Carton Y, Nappi AJ, Poirie M. Genetics of anti-parasite resistance in invertebrates. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 29:9-32. [PMID: 15325520 DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2004.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2004] [Revised: 04/21/2004] [Accepted: 05/12/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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This review summarizes and compares available data on genetic and molecular aspects of resistance in four well-described invertebrate host-parasite systems: snail-schistosome, mosquito-malaria, mosquito-filarial worm, and Drosophila-wasp associations. It underlies that the major components of the immune reaction, such as hemocyte proliferation and/or activation, and production of cytotoxic radicals are common to invertebrate hosts. Identifying genes responsible for naturally occurring resistance will then be helpful to understand the mechanisms of invertebrate immune defenses and to determine how virulence factors are used by parasites to overcome host resistance. Based on these four well-studied models, invertebrate resistance appears as generally determined by one major locus or a few loci, displaying at least partial dominance. Interestingly, specificity of resistance is highly variable and would involve processes other than simple recognition mechanisms. Finally, resistance was shown to be generally costly but is nevertheless observed at high frequencies in many natural populations, suggesting a high potential for host parasite coevolution.
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- Y Carton
- Laboratoire Populations, Génétique et Evolution, CNRS, 91198 Gif, Yvette, France.
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Nappi AJ, Vass E, Malagoli D, Carton Y. The effects of parasite-derived immune-suppressive factors on the cellular innate immune and autoimmune responses of Drosophila melanogaster. J Parasitol 2004; 90:1139-49. [PMID: 15562616 DOI: 10.1645/ge-266r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Immune-suppressive factors (ISFs) introduced into larvae of Drosophila melanogaster during infection by virulent endoparasitic wasps effectively block the innate immune response mediated by blood cells (hemocytes) but have little influence on the autoimmune response made by a tumor strain in which the blood cells manifest a similar response but instead target and destroy endogenous tissues. Quantitative hemocyte analyses indicate that ISFs interfere with the immune effector responses downstream of nonself recognition, hemocyte activation and differentiation, because these responses were manifested by tumor hosts, in which the parasitoids developed. The data suggest that once activated to encapsulate aberrant tissues, the target specificity of the autoimmune-activated hemocytes, and the genetic program underlying tumor formation, cannot be blocked by parasitoid-derived ISFs, which effectively inhibit identical hemocyte-mediated responses during parasitization.
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- A J Nappi
- Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
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Poitrineau K, Brown SP, Hochberg ME. The joint evolution of defence and inducibility against natural enemies. J Theor Biol 2004; 231:389-96. [PMID: 15501470 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2003] [Revised: 06/18/2004] [Accepted: 07/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We develop and analyse a model of inducible defence where two traits--defence and its inducibility--jointly evolve. Inducibility reduces costs of defence in the absence of enemies thereby permitting higher defence levels when attacked. If the cost of inducibility is low, then inducibility and defence may reinforce one another, resulting in a runaway leading to a highly inducible and highly effective defence. When inducibility is more costly, a new joint-equilibrium in defence/inducibility emerges displaying intermediate levels of both traits, and the prior 'run-away' scenario (high defence, high inducibility) may disappear. In contrast to the cost of inducibility, the cost of defence has mixed effects. An increase in costs of defence generally diminishes the level of both defence and inducibility at the intermediate locally stable equilibrium, but can favour the existence of the 'run-away' scenario of high defence-high inducibility. The enemy encounter-rate also has mixed effects. At high encounter rates an increase in encounters can lead to a higher/maximal defence and a lower level of inducibility (defence being almost always useful), but at low rates, an increase in encounters can lead to both higher defence and higher inducibility. We finally consider potential enemy responses to defensive change, and illustrate that herd immunity (reduction of encounter rates due to population-level defence) can affect both individual defence and induction that can be, depending on conditions, increased or decreased.
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- Karine Poitrineau
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier-UMR 5554, Université Montpellier II, CC065 Place Eugène Bataillon, 34090 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
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Sorrentino RP, Melk JP, Govind S. Genetic analysis of contributions of dorsal group and JAK-Stat92E pathway genes to larval hemocyte concentration and the egg encapsulation response in Drosophila. Genetics 2004; 166:1343-56. [PMID: 15082553 PMCID: PMC1470785 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.3.1343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Drosophila larvae defend themselves against parasitoid wasps by completely surrounding the egg with layers of specialized hemocytes called lamellocytes. Similar capsules of lamellocytes, called melanotic capsules, are also formed around "self" tissues in larvae carrying gain-of-function mutations in Toll and hopscotch. Constitutive differentiation of lamellocytes in larvae carrying these mutations is accompanied by high concentrations of plasmatocytes, the major hemocyte class in uninfected control larvae. The relative contributions of hemocyte concentration vs. lamellocyte differentiation to wasp egg encapsulation are not known. To address this question, we used Leptopilina boulardi to infect more than a dozen strains of host larvae harboring a wide range of hemocyte densities. We report a significant correlation between hemocyte concentration and encapsulation capacity among wild-type larvae and larvae heterozygous for mutations in the Hopscotch-Stat92E and Toll-Dorsal pathways. Larvae carrying loss-of-function mutations in Hopscotch, Stat92E, or dorsal group genes exhibit significant reduction in encapsulation capacity. Larvae carrying loss-of-function mutations in dorsal group genes (including Toll and tube) have reduced hemocyte concentrations, whereas larvae deficient in Hopscotch-Stat92E signaling do not. Surprisingly, unlike hopscotch mutants, Toll and tube mutants are not compromised in their ability to generate lamellocytes. Our results suggest that circulating hemocyte concentration and lamellocyte differentiation constitute two distinct physiological requirements of wasp egg encapsulation and Toll and Hopscotch proteins serve distinct roles in this process.
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- Richard Paul Sorrentino
- Department of Biology, City College and Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA
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Sinenko SA, Kim EK, Wynn R, Manfruelli P, Ando I, Wharton KA, Perrimon N, Mathey-Prevot B. Yantar, a conserved arginine-rich protein is involved in Drosophila hemocyte development. Dev Biol 2004; 273:48-62. [PMID: 15302597 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.05.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2004] [Revised: 05/06/2004] [Accepted: 05/07/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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To identify novel factors involved in Drosophila hematopoiesis, we screened a collection of lethal recessive mutations that also affected normal hemocyte composition in larvae. We present the characterization of the gene yantar (ytr) for which we isolated null and hypomorphic mutations that were associated with severe defects in hemocyte differentiation and proliferation; ytr is predominantly expressed in the hematopoietic tissue during larval development and encodes an evolutionary conserved protein which is predominantly localized in the nucleus. The hematopoietic phenotype in ytr mutants is consistent with a defect or block in differentiation of precursor hemocytes: mutant larvae have enlarged lymph glands (LGs) and have an excess of circulating hemocytes. In addition, many cells exhibit both lamellocyte and crystal cell markers. Ytr function has been preserved in evolution as hematopoietic specific expression of the Drosophila or mouse Ytr proteins rescue the differentiation defects in mutant hemocytes.
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- Sergey A Sinenko
- Division of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Zettervall CJ, Anderl I, Williams MJ, Palmer R, Kurucz E, Ando I, Hultmark D. A directed screen for genes involved in Drosophila blood cell activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:14192-7. [PMID: 15381778 PMCID: PMC521135 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0403789101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 259] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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An attack by a parasitic wasp activates a vigorous cellular immune response in Drosophila larvae. This response is manifested by an increased number of circulating cells, the hemocytes, and by the appearance of a specialized class of hemocyte, the lamellocytes, which participate in the encapsulation and killing of the parasite. To study the molecular mechanisms of this response, we have overexpressed different genes in the hemocytes, by using the GAL4-upstream activating sequence system and a hemocyte-specific Hemese-GAL4 driver. Multiple transgenes were tested, representing several important signaling pathways. We found that the proliferation response and the activation of lamellocyte formation are independent phenomena. A drastic increase in the number of circulating hemocytes is caused by receptor tyrosine kinases, such as Egfr, Pvr, and Alk, as well as by the downstream signaling components Ras85D and pointed, supporting the notion that the Ras-mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway regulates hemocyte numbers. In the case of Pvr and Alk, this phenotype also is accompanied by lamellocyte formation. By contrast, constitutively active hopscotch and hemipterous give massive activation of lamellocyte formation with little or no increase in total hemocyte numbers. This finding indicates that both the Jak/Stat and the Jun kinase pathways affect lamellocyte formation. Still other signals, mediated by aop(ACT), Toll(10b), and Rac1 expression, cause a simultaneous increase in lamellocyte and total cell numbers, and the same effect is seen when WNT signaling is suppressed. We conclude that the activation of a cellular response is complex and affected by multiple signaling pathways.
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- Carl-Johan Zettervall
- Umeå Centre for Molecular Pathogenesis, Byggnad 6L, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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Freitak D, Ots I, Vanatoa A, Hõrak P. Immune response is energetically costly in white cabbage butterfly pupae. Proc Biol Sci 2004; 270 Suppl 2:S220-2. [PMID: 14667388 PMCID: PMC1809938 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Parasite-driven coevolution has led hosts to develop a complicated and potentially costly defence machinery, consisting mainly of the immune system. Despite the evidence for the trade-offs between immune function and life-history traits, it is still obscure how the costs of using and maintaining the immune function are paid. We tested whether immune challenge is energetically costly for white cabbage butterfly (Pieris brassicae L.) diapausing pupa. Individuals challenged with nylon implant raised their standard metabolic rate nearly 8% compared to the controls. Hence, costs of activation of immune system in insect pupa can be expressed in energetic currency.
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- Dalial Freitak
- Institute of Zoology and Hydrobiology, Tartu University, Vanemuise 46, Tartu, 51014, Estonia
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Labrosse C, Carton Y, Dubuffet A, Drezen JM, Poirie M. Active suppression of D. melanogaster immune response by long gland products of the parasitic wasp Leptopilina boulardi. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 49:513-522. [PMID: 12770630 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1910(03)00054-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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To develop inside their insect hosts, endoparasitoid wasps must either evade or overcome the host's immune system. Several ichneumonid and braconid wasps inject polydnaviruses that display well-studied immune suppressive effects. However, little is known about the strategies of immunoevasion used by other parasitoid families, such as figitid wasps. The present study provides experimental evidence, based on superparasitism and injection experiments, that the figitid species Leptopilina boulardi uses an active mechanism to suppress the Drosophila melanogaster host immune response, i.e. the encapsulation of the parasitoid eggs. The immune suppressive factors are localised in the long gland and reservoir of the female genital tractus, where virus-like particles (VLPs) have been observed. Parasitism experiments using a host tumorous strain indicate that these factors do not destroy host lamellocytes but that they impair the melanisation pathway. Interestingly, they are not susceptible to heating and are not depleted with prolonged oviposition experience, in contrast to observations reported for L. heterotoma, another figitid species. The mechanisms that prevent encapsulation of eggs from L. boulardi and L. heterotoma differ in several respects, suggesting that different physiological strategies of immunosuppression might be used by specialised and generalist parasitoids.
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- C Labrosse
- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de I'Insecte UPRESA CNRS 6035, IFR Biologie des Transposons et des Virus, Université F. Rabelais, Parc Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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Moreau SJM, Eslin P, Giordanengo P, Doury G. Comparative study of the strategies evolved by two parasitoids of the genus Asobara to avoid the immune response of the host, Drosophila melanogaster. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 27:273-282. [PMID: 12590961 DOI: 10.1016/s0145-305x(02)00101-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Asobara tabida and Asobara citri are two braconid endoparasitoids of Drosophila melanogaster larvae. We studied and compared the strategies evolved by these two species to avoid the immune reaction of their host. A. tabida has no negative impact on host cellular defenses and its eggs avoid encapsulation by adhering to host tissues. At the opposite, we found that A. citri, whose eggs are devoid of adhesive properties, affects the host encapsulation abilities, hemolymph phenoloxidase activity and concentrations of circulating hemocytes. Some of these effects could directly rely on a severe disruption of the hematopoietic organ anterior lobes observed in parasitized larvae. This is the first report of the immune suppressive abilities of a parasitoid from the Asobara genus. Results are presented and discussed with respect to the strategies of virulence evolved by other parasitoids to counteract the D. melanogaster immune system.
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- Sébastien J M Moreau
- Laboratoire de Biologie des Entomophages, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 33 rue Saint Leu, 80039 Amiens Cedex, France.
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Chiu H, Govind S. Natural infection of D. melanogaster by virulent parasitic wasps induces apoptotic depletion of hematopoietic precursors. Cell Death Differ 2002; 9:1379-81. [PMID: 12478476 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4401134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Sorrentino RP, Carton Y, Govind S. Cellular immune response to parasite infection in the Drosophila lymph gland is developmentally regulated. Dev Biol 2002; 243:65-80. [PMID: 11846478 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The mechanisms by which an organism becomes immune competent during its development are largely unknown. When infected by eggs of parasitic wasps, Drosophila larvae mount a complex cellular immune reaction in which specialized host blood cells, lamellocytes and crystal cells, are activated and recruited to build a capsule around the parasite egg to block its development. Here, we report that parasitization by the wasp Leptopilina boulardi leads to a dramatic increase in the number of both lamellocytes and crystal cells in the Drosophila larval lymph gland. Furthermore, a limited burst of mitosis follows shortly after infection, suggesting that both cell division and differentiation of lymph gland hemocytes are required for encapsulation. These changes, observed in the lymph glands of third-instar, but never of second-instar hosts, are almost always accompanied by dispersal of the anterior lobes themselves. To confirm a link between host development and immune competence, we infected mutant hosts in which development is blocked during larval or late larval stages. We found that, in genetic backgrounds where ecdysone levels are low (ecdysoneless) or ecdysone signaling is blocked (nonpupariating allele of the transcription factor broad), the encapsulation response is severely compromised. In the third-instar ecdysoneless hosts, postinfection mitotic amplification in the lymph glands is absent and there is a reduction in crystal cell maturation and postinfection circulating lamellocyte concentration. These results suggest that an ecdysone-activated pathway potentiates precursors of effector cell types to respond to parasitization by proliferation and differentiation. We propose that, by affecting a specific pool of hematopoietic precursors, this pathway thus confers immune capacity to third-instar larvae.
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- Richard Paul Sorrentino
- Department of Biology, City College of New York and Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, 138th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, New York 10031, USA
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