IL-4 and IL-10 Antagonize IL-12-Mediated Protection Against Acute Vaccinia Virus Infection with a Limited Role of IFN-γ and Nitric Oxide Synthetase 2

  • van den Broek M
  • Bachmann M
  • Köhler G
  • et al.
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Abstract

Resistance or susceptibility to most infectious diseases is strongly determined by the balance of type 1 vs type 2 cytokines produced during infection. However, for viruses, this scheme may be applicable only to infections with some cytopathic viruses, where IFN-γ is considered as mandatory for host defense with little if any participation of type 2 responses. We studied the role of signature Th1 (IL-12, IFN-γ) and Th2 (IL-4, IL-10) cytokines for immune responses against vaccinia virus (VV). IL-12−/− mice were far more susceptible than IFN-γ−/− mice, and primary CTL responses against VV were absent in IL-12−/− mice but remained intact in IFN-γ−/− mice. Both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from IL-12−/− mice were unimpaired in IFN-γ production, although CD4+ T cells showed elevated Th2 cytokine responses. Virus replication was impaired in IL-4−/− mice and, even more strikingly, in IL-10−/− mice, which both produced elevated levels of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1α and IL-6. Thus, IL-4 produced by Th2 cells and IL-10 produced by Th2 cells and probably also by macrophages counteract efficient anti-viral host defense. Surprisingly, NO production, which is considered as a major type 1 effector pathway inhibited by type 2 cytokines, appears to play a limited role against VV, because NO sythetase 2-deficient mice did not show increased viral replication. Thus, our results identify a new role for IL-12 in defense beyond the induction of IFN-γ and show that IL-4 and IL-10 modulate host protective responses to VV.

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van den Broek, M., Bachmann, M. F., Köhler, G., Barner, M., Escher, R., Zinkernagel, R., & Kopf, M. (2000). IL-4 and IL-10 Antagonize IL-12-Mediated Protection Against Acute Vaccinia Virus Infection with a Limited Role of IFN-γ and Nitric Oxide Synthetase 2. The Journal of Immunology, 164(1), 371–378. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.164.1.371

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