Comparative assessment of virulence of recombinant vaccinia viruses expressing IL-2 and IL-15 in immunodeficient mice
AUTOR(ES)
Perera, Liyanage P.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
IL-2 and -15 belong to the four α-helix bundle family of cytokines and display a spectrum of overlapping immune functions because of shared signal transducing receptor components of the IL-2 receptor complex. However, recent evidence suggests a nonredundant unique role for IL-15 in the establishment and perhaps maintenance of peripheral natural killer (NK) cell populations in vivo. To explore the contribution of locally released IL-15 on peripheral NK-cell-mediated innate immune responses, we generated a recombinant vaccinia virus that expresses IL-15 and evaluated the course of vaccinial disease in athymic nude mice. Coexpression of IL-15 resulted in the attenuation of virulence of vaccinia virus, and mice inoculated with 105 plaque-forming units or less resolved the infection successfully. In contrast, mice inoculated with a similar dose of the control vaccinia virus failed to eliminate the virus and died of generalized vaccinial disease. Enhanced expression of IL-12 and IFN-γ as well as induction of chemokines were evident in the mice inoculated with IL-15-expressing vaccinia virus in addition to an increase in NK cells in the spleen. However, in this model system, the degree of attenuation in viral virulence attained with coexpression of IL-15 was much less than that achieved with coexpression of IL-2, suggesting that the peripheral NK-cell-mediated events are more responsive to IL-2 than to IL-15.
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