Plant Phenolics and Lectins as Vaccine Adjuvants

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (15) ◽  
pp. 1236-1243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hernández-Ramos Reyna-Margarita ◽  
Castillo-Maldonado Irais ◽  
Rivera-Guillén Mario-Alberto ◽  
Ramírez-Moreno Agustina ◽  
Serrano-Gallardo Luis-Benjamín ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Innate Immune Response ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
The Body ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Vaccine Adjuvants ◽  
Plant Phenolics ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Foreign Substance

Background: The immune system is responsible for providing protection to the body against foreign substances. The immune system divides into two types of immune responses to study its mechanisms of protection: 1) Innate and 2) Adaptive. The innate immune response represents the first protective barrier of the organism that also works as a regulator of the adaptive immune response, if evaded the mechanisms of the innate immune response by the foreign substance the adaptive immune response takes action with the consequent antigen neutralization or elimination. The adaptive immune response objective is developing a specific humoral response that consists in the production of soluble proteins known as antibodies capable of specifically recognizing the foreign agent; such protective mechanism is induced artificially through an immunization or vaccination. Unfortunately, the immunogenicity of the antigens is an intrinsic characteristic of the same antigen dependent on several factors. Conclusion: Vaccine adjuvants are chemical substances of very varied structure that seek to improve the immunogenicity of antigens. The main four types of adjuvants under investigation are the following: 1) Oil emulsions with an antigen in solution, 2) Pattern recognition receptors activating molecules, 3) Inflammatory stimulatory molecules or activators of the inflammasome complex, and 4) Cytokines. However, this paper addresses the biological plausibility of two phytochemical compounds as vaccine adjuvants: 5) Lectins, and 6) Plant phenolics whose characteristics, mechanisms of action and disadvantages are addressed. Finally, the immunological usefulness of these molecules is discussed through immunological data to estimate effects of plant phenolics and lectins as vaccine adjuvants, and current studies that have implanted these molecules as vaccine adjuvants, demonstrating the results of this immunization.

scholarly journals Fetal Lymphoid Organ Immune Responses to Transient and Persistent Infection with Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus

Viruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie J. Knapek ◽  
Hanah M. Georges ◽  
Hana Van Campen ◽  
Jeanette V. Bishop ◽  
Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Innate Immune Response ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Bovine Viral Diarrhea ◽  
Diarrhea Virus ◽  
Viral Diarrhea ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Viral Diarrhea Virus

Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) fetal infections occur in two forms; persistent infection (PI) or transient infection (TI), depending on what stage of gestation the fetus is infected. Examination of lymphoid organs from both PI and TI fetuses reveals drastically different fetal responses, dependent upon the developmental stage of the fetal immune system. Total RNA was extracted from the thymuses and spleens of uninfected control, PI, and TI fetuses collected on day 190 of gestation to test the hypothesis that BVDV infection impairs the innate and adaptive immune response in the fetal thymus and spleen of both infection types. Transcripts of genes representing the innate immune response and adaptive immune response genes were assayed by Reverse Transcription quatitative PCR (RT-qPCR) (2−ΔΔCq; fold change). Genes of the innate immune response, interferon (IFN) inducible genes, antigen presentation to lymphocytes, and activation of B cells were downregulated in day 190 fetal PI thymuses compared to controls. In contrast, innate immune response genes were upregulated in TI fetal thymuses compared to controls and tended to be upregulated in TI fetal spleens. Genes associated with the innate immune system were not different in PI fetal spleens; however, adaptive immune system genes were downregulated, indicating that PI fetal BVDV infection has profound inhibitory effects on the expression of genes involved in the innate and adaptive immune response. The downregulation of these genes in lymphocytes and antigen-presenting cells in the developing thymus and spleen may explain the incomplete clearance of BVDV and the persistence of the virus in PI animals while the upregulation of the TI innate immune response indicates a more mature immune system, able to clear the virus.

scholarly journals Salmonella escapes adaptive immune response via SIRT2 mediated modulation of innate immune response in dendritic cells

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. e1007437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayuri Gogoi ◽  
Kasturi Chandra ◽  
Mohsen Sarikhani ◽  
Ramya Ramani ◽  
Nagalingam Ravi Sundaresan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Innate Immune Response ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Adaptive Immune

scholarly journals The Innate Immune Response to Adjuvants Dictates the Adaptive Immune Response to Autoantigens

2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 543-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A. Staykova ◽  
David Liñares ◽  
Susan A. Fordham ◽  
Judith T. Paridaen ◽  
David O. Willenborg
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune Response ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Adaptive Immune

scholarly journals Insights into Innate Immune Response Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-269
Author(s):  
Adina Huțanu ◽  
Anca Meda Georgescu ◽  
Akos Vince Andrejkovits ◽  
William Au ◽  
Minodora Dobreanu
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Innate Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune System ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Interferon Response ◽  
Humoral Factors ◽  
Key Steps

Abstract The innate immune system is mandatory for the activation of antiviral host defense and eradication of the infection. In this regard, dendritic cells, natural killer cells, macrophages, neutrophils representing the cellular component, and cytokines, interferons, complement or Toll-Like Receptors, representing the mediators of unspecific response act together for both activation of the adaptive immune response and viral clearance. Of great importance is the proper functioning of the innate immune response from the very beginning. For instance, in the early stages of viral infection, the defective interferon response leads to uncontrolled viral replication and pathogen evasion, while hypersecretion during the later stages of infection generates hyperinflammation. This cascade activation of systemic inflammation culminates with cytokine storm syndrome and hypercoagulability state, due to a close interconnection between them. Thus an unbalanced reaction, either under- or over- stimulation of the innate immune system will lead to an uncoordinated response and unfavorable disease outcomes. Since both cellular and humoral factors are involved in the time-course of the innate immune response, in this review we aimed to address their gradual involvement in the antiviral response with emphasis on key steps in SARS-CoV-2 infection.

scholarly journals Salmonella and the Immune System

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weam Saad Al-Hamadany
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Innate Immune Response ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Pathogenic Bacteria ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Resistance Mechanisms ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Disease Symptoms ◽  
Adaptive Immune

The human body has many mechanisms to resist invaders like pathogenic bacteria to avoid harm according to the living creature’s law “survival for the best”. On the opposite; Salmonella as pathogenic bacteria have many weapons that they utilize to invade the human body. The resistance mechanisms expressed by the human body are called immunity which represented by the immune system that has many different types of resistance processes, either specific (adaptive immune response) or non-specific (Innate Immune Response) against certain pathogenic invaders. As far as these processes are strong they will be enough to avoid infections occurrence, otherwise, the human body will get infected with Salmonella, be ill, show the disease symptoms, transmit the disease to others, and may become a carrier for the pathogen according to many circumstances. Prevention is still stood the most effective way to avoid getting infected with Salmonella by personal hygiene or suitable vaccination if available.

scholarly journals Correction: Salmonella escapes adaptive immune response via SIRT2 mediated modulation of innate immune response in dendritic cells

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e1008345
Author(s):  
Mayuri Gogoi ◽  
Kasturi Chandra ◽  
Mohsen Sarikhani ◽  
Ramya Ramani ◽  
Nagalingam Ravi Sundaresan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Dendritic Cells ◽  
Innate Immune Response ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Adaptive Immune

scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2 and interferon blockade

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Diamond ◽  
Bruce T. Volpe ◽  
Sonya VanPatten ◽  
Yousef Al Abed
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Innate Immune System ◽  
Neutralizing Antibodies ◽  
Cytotoxic T Cells ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Interferon Production ◽  
Therapeutic Implications ◽  
Adaptive Immune

Abstract The response to viral infection generally includes an activation of the adaptive immune response to produce cytotoxic T cells and neutralizing antibodies. We propose that SARS-CoV-2 activates the innate immune system through the renin-angiotensin and kallikrein-bradykinin pathways, blocks interferon production and reduces an effective adaptive immune response. This model has therapeutic implications.

scholarly journals Orchestration of Adaptive T Cell Responses by Neutrophil Granule Contents

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Minns ◽  
Katie Jane Smith ◽  
Emily Gwyer Findlay
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Immune System ◽  
T Cell ◽  
Innate Immune System ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
T Cell Immunity ◽  
Cell Responses ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Cell Immunity

Neutrophils are the most abundant leukocytes in peripheral blood and respond rapidly to danger, infiltrating tissues within minutes of infectious or sterile injury. Neutrophils were long thought of as simple killers, but now we recognise them as responsive cells able to adapt to inflammation and orchestrate subsequent events with some sophistication. Here, we discuss how these rapid responders release mediators which influence later adaptive T cell immunity through influences on DC priming and directly on the T cells themselves. We consider how the release of granule contents by neutrophils—through NETosis or degranulation—is one way in which the innate immune system directs the phenotype of the adaptive immune response.

scholarly journals The Metabolic Phenotype Associated with Mounting an Immune Response to a Systemic Infection of Listeria Monocytogenes (FS12-07-19)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Johnson ◽  
Adesola Olatunde ◽  
Lauren Woodie ◽  
Michael Greene ◽  
Elizabeth Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Bacterial Infection ◽  
Innate Immune Response ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Metabolic Phenotype ◽  
Metabolic Demand ◽  
Pathogen Infection ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Adaptive Immune

Abstract Objectives Our goal in these studies was to quantitatively determine the metabolic phenotype of intracellular bacterial infection, immune response, and clearance. Mounting an immune response to a bacterial infection is metabolically taxing to the host. During infection, the host exhibits sickness syndrome characterized by fever, lethargy and anorexia. Cells of the immune system also shift cellular metabolic pathways, which alters the metabolic and nutritional needs of the host. Previous studies of the metabolic demands of sickness have used model antigens, mitogens or pattern associated molecular patterns, which do not represent the full spectrum of response to a live pathogen infection. Thus, our study is the first of its kind to assess the full spectrum of metabolic, nutritional, immunological, and behavioral demands of live pathogen infection. Methods Mice were administered either a mock intraperitoneal (ip) injection of PBS (Control) or ip dose of Listeria and individually housed over the course of 12 days in Promethion metabolic cages to monitor their metabolic phenotype. In a parallel study, groups of mice were equivalently treated, yet conventionally housed and sacrificed at 3, 5, 7 and 10 days over the course of infection to determine splenic bacterial burden, Listeria-specific T cell response, and cellular metabolic status. Results We observed that the period of the innate immune response (days 1–4) had the most metabolic demand, indicated by weight loss (P < 0.05), reduced activity (P < 0.05), increased sleep (P < 0.05), and decreased energy expenditure (P < 0.05). During the period of the adaptive immune response (days 5–10), there was little to no metabolic impact in the infected animals when compared to the uninfected control animals. We also observed increased GLUT1 expression (P < 0.05) on the membranes of myeloid cells during the period of highest metabolic demand, indicating shifts in cellular metabolism of innate immune cells during the early stages of infection. Conclusions The innate immune response is more metabolically taxing on the host compared to the adaptive immune response and places an increased metabolic demand on infected animals. Funding Sources Departmental startup funds to Elizabeth Hiltbold Schwartz.

scholarly journals Yolkin Isolated from Hen Egg Yolk as a Natural Immunoregulator, Activating Innate Immune Response in BMDM Macrophages

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
W. Kazana ◽  
M. Mitkiewicz ◽  
M. Ochnik ◽  
M. Sochocka ◽  
A. Zambrowicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Innate Immune Response ◽  
Egg Yolk ◽  
The Body ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Type I ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Hen Egg Yolk ◽  
Hen Egg

One of the goals of biomedical sciences is to search and identify natural compounds that are safe, have no side effects, and possess immunostimulatory activity. It has been proven that medicines of natural origin can be effective agents, supporting the therapy of many diseases, not only in the weakened immune system of the body but also in the prevention of many diseases in healthy people. It has been shown that yolkin, a polypeptide complex isolated from hen egg yolk as a fraction accompanying immunoglobulin Y (IgY), possesses potential biological activity. However, the mechanism of its action has not been explained. The objective of this investigation was to examine the molecular mechanisms of innate immune response, activated in response to yolkin, in murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM). It was shown that yolkin induced phosphorylation of extracellular signal-kinases (ERK1/2) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and upregulated expression and production of type I interferons, TNF-α (tumor necrosis factor α), and nitric oxide (NO), in BMDM cells. Using pharmacological inhibitors of ERK 1/2 and JNK kinases, we revealed that the JNK signaling cascade is required for yolkin-induced inducible NOS expression and upregulation of NO production in mouse macrophages. Using the TLR4-deficient BMDM cell line, we established that yolkin can activate macrophages in a TLR4-dependent manner. It was also shown that NO, TNF-α, and type I IFNs (α/β) produced by BMDM cells in response to yolkin triggered antiviral activity. These data indicate that yolkin affects the regulation of the immune system and antiviral response; therefore, it can be used as an effective immunostimulator of the innate immunity or as a supplement of the conventional therapy of immunodeficiency.

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