Níveis séricos de TREM-1 na leishmaniose visceral humana e sua modulação em neutrófilos expostos à Leishmania infantum

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Bomfim, Lays Gisele Santos
• Orientador(a): Moura, Tatiana Rodrigues de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Leishmania infantum; Leishmaniose visceral; Neutrófilos; TREM-1
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Visceral leishmaniasis; Neutrophils
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS DA SAUDE
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3838

Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is a disease of systemic infectious and the most severe clinical form is associated with an intense inflammatory response. Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 1 (TREM-1) is a cell surface receptor constitutively expressed in neutrophils and monocytes and plays a key role in the innate immune response, being able to amplify and regulate the inflammatory response. Its activation and expression is synergistic to the activation of TLR 2 and 4, which culminates in the activation of microbicidal mechanisms. Its soluble serum form, sTREM-1, has been described in inflammatory diseases such as sepsis and rheumatoid arthritis, acting as TREM-1 pathway inhibitor. Since TREM-1 pathway is associated with neutrophils activation, cells that constitute the first host’s line of defense and a major source of TREM-1, the aim of the present study was to evaluate serum levels of sTREM-1 in patients with VL and investigate the effect of Leishmania infantum on the modulation of TREM-1 in neutrophils. Thereby, sera from patients with different clinical forms of VL were collected before and after treatment to measure serum levels of sTREM-1 by ELISA. In addition, neutrophils from healthy human donors were purified from peripheral blood and exposed to L. infantum at a rate of 1, 5 and 10 parasites per neutrophil to evaluate the release of sTREM-1 in the supernatant. Ultimately, the expression of surface TREM-1 in neutrophils exposed to L. infantum, as well as the gene expression of TREM-1, DAP12 and IL-8 by Real-time PCR was evaluated. Patients with severe VL presented elevated serum levels of sTREM-1 compared to serum levels of other clinical forms. Comparing the patients with severe VL with the other groups (classic VL D0, D30 and D180; DTH+; CTR), an AUC above 0.8 was observed with a value of p≤0.01 in all ROC curves. The best discriminating power of the ROC curve was between severe VL of classic VL D30 with a sensitivity of 93.75% and specificity of 87.50%. Serum levels of sTREM-1 were positively correlated with liver size and negatively correlated with the number of leukocytes from VL patients. In vitro experiments with neutrophils from healthy donors demonstrated that the release of sTREM-1 into the culture supernatant was associated with an increased parasite rate of L. infantum, and the time of exposure. In addition, flow cytometry has demonstrated that exposure by L. infantum reduces the frequency, MFI and iMFI of TREM-1 on the surface of infected neutrophils, and increases the gene expression of TREM-1, DAP12 and IL-8. In this work, it was described for the first time that TREM-1 is modulated by the presence of L. infantum, its soluble form being elevated in the severe form of VL and modulated in neutrophils.