AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8640, Japan.
Kirin Central Research Institute, Kirin Holdings, Co., Ltd., 2-26-1 Muraoka-Higashi, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, 251-8555, Japan.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2023 Jun 25;662:26-30. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.04.046. Epub 2023 Apr 17.
Innate immune responses are important in the control of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) replication. We have previously found a lactic acid bacteria species, Lactococcus lactis strain Plasma (LC-Plasma), which possesses specific feature to activate plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) and thus may affect innate immune responses. Here, we investigated the impact of pDC activation by LC-Plasma on SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro. Addition of the culture supernatant of pDCs stimulated with LC-Plasma resulted in suppression of SARS-CoV-2 replication in Vero and Calu-3 cells. We confirmed interferon-α (IFN-α) secretion in the supernatant of pDCs stimulated with LC-Plasma and induction of IFN-stimulated genes in cells treated with the pDC supernatant. Anti-IFN-α antibody impaired the suppression of SARS-CoV-2 replication by the supernatant of LC-Plasma-stimulated pDCs, suggesting that IFN-α plays an important role in the SARS-CoV-2 suppression. Our results indicate the potential of LC-Plasma to induce inhibitory responses against SARS-CoV-2 replication through pDC stimulation with IFN-α secretion.
先天免疫反应在控制严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2(SARS-CoV-2)复制中具有重要作用。我们之前发现了一种乳酸菌物种,乳球菌乳亚种 Plasma(LC-Plasma),它具有激活浆细胞样树突状细胞(pDCs)的特定特征,因此可能影响先天免疫反应。在这里,我们研究了 LC-Plasma 激活 pDCs 对 SARS-CoV-2 在体外复制的影响。添加经 LC-Plasma 刺激的 pDCs 的培养上清液导致 Vero 和 Calu-3 细胞中 SARS-CoV-2 复制受到抑制。我们证实了 LC-Plasma 刺激的 pDCs 上清液中干扰素-α(IFN-α)的分泌,并诱导了用 pDC 上清液处理的细胞中的 IFN 刺激基因。抗 IFN-α 抗体削弱了由 LC-Plasma 刺激的 pDCs 的上清液对 SARS-CoV-2 复制的抑制作用,表明 IFN-α 在 SARS-CoV-2 抑制中发挥重要作用。我们的研究结果表明,LC-Plasma 通过诱导 IFN-α 分泌刺激 pDCs,从而对 SARS-CoV-2 复制产生抑制作用的潜力。
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