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Volume 8, Issue 3 (Suppl) J Clin Cell Immunol, an open access journal
ISSN: 2155-9899 Euro Immunology 2017
June 29-July 01, 2017
June 29-July 01, 2017 Madrid, Spain
8th European
Immunology Conference
Ameliorationof Japanese encephalitis byblockage of 4-1BBsignaling is coupled todivergent enhancement
of type I/II IFN responses and Ly-6Chi monocyte differentiation
Seong Kug EO, Jin Young Choi, Ajit Mahadev Patil, Erdenebelig Uyangaa and Seong Bum Kim
Chonbuk National University, South Korea
Japanese encephalitis (JE), a neuroinflammation caused by zoonotic JE virus, is the major cause of viral encephalitis worldwide, and
poses an increasing threat to global health and welfare. To date, however, there has been no report describing the regulation of JE
progression using immunomodulatory tools for developing therapeutic strategies. We tested whether blocking the 4-1BB signaling
pathway would regulate JE progression using murine JE model. Blocking the 4-1BB signaling pathway significantly increased
resistance to JE and reduced viral burden in extraneural tissues and the CNS, rather than causing a detrimental effect. In addition,
treatment with 4-1BB agonistic antibody exacerbated JE. Furthermore, JE amelioration and reduction of viral burden by blocking the
4-1BB signaling pathway was associated with an increased frequency of IFN-II-producing NK and CD4+ Th1 cells as well as increased
infiltration of mature Ly-6Chi monocytes in the inflamed CNS. More interestingly, DCs and macrophages derived from 4-1BB KO
mice showed potent and rapid IFN-I innate immune responses upon JEV infection, which was coupled to strong induction of PRRs
(RIG-I, MDA5), transcription factors (IRF7), and antiviral ISG genes (ISG49, ISG54, ISG56). Further, the ablation of 4-1BB signaling
enhanced IFN-I innate responses in neuron cells, which likely regulated viral spread in the CNS. Finally, we confirmed that blocking
the 4-1BB signaling pathway in myeloid cells derived from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) played a dominant role in ameliorating
JE. In support of this finding, HSC-derived leukocytes played a dominant role in generating the IFN-I innate responses in the host.
Blocking the 4-1BB signaling pathway ameliorates JE via divergent enhancement of IFN-II-producing NK and CD4+ Th1 cells and
mature Ly-6Chi monocyte infiltration, as well as an IFN-I innate response of myeloid-derived cells. Therefore, regulation of the 4-1BB
signaling pathway with antibodies or inhibitors could be a valuable therapeutic strategy for the treatment of JE.
Biography
Seong Kug EO’s lab has focused on unveiling how hosts response to pathogen infection. They have used various infectious models to prove host responses upon
pathogenic infection. In recent, EO’s lab has found the detailed pathway that IFN-I signal pathway orchestrated environments to provide effective protection against
mucosal viral infection (PLoS Pathog., 2016). Moreover, EO’s lab is expert on viral acute encephalitis caused by flaviviral infection. They have got many reports to
unveil how immune system works on viral encephalitis caused by Japanese encephalitis virus (J. Neuroinflammation, 2014 and 2016).
Seong Kug EO et al., J Clin Cell Immunol 2017, 8:3(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2155-9899-C1-037