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Infection and Immunity, January 2005, p. 592-598, Vol. 73, No. 1
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.1.592-598.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Opsonic Requirements for Dendritic Cell-Mediated Responses to Cryptococcus neoformans

Ryan M. Kelly,{dagger} Jianmin Chen, Lauren E. Yauch, and Stuart M. Levitz*

Evans Memorial Department of Clinical Research and Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 27 August 2004/ Returned for modification 6 September 2004/ Accepted 10 September 2004

The encapsulated pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans is poorly recognized by phagocytic cells in the absence of opsonins. Macrophages will bind and internalize complement- or antibody-opsonized C. neoformans; however, less is known about the role of opsonins in dendritic cell (DC)-mediated recognition of the organism. Thus, we studied the opsonic requirements for binding to C. neoformans by cultured human monocyte-derived and murine bone marrow-derived DCs and whether binding leads to antifungal activity and cytokine release. Binding of unopsonized C. neoformans to human and murine DCs was negligible. Opsonization with pooled human serum (PHS) increased binding, while heat treatment of PHS virtually abolished this binding, thus suggesting a role for heat-labile complement components. PHS plus a monoclonal anticapsular antibody, 3C2, had an additive effect on binding for most cryptococcal strains. Human and murine DCs exhibited pronounced anticryptococcal activity in the presence of the antibody at early (2-h) and late (24-h) time points; however, PHS opsonization did not supplement this anticryptococcal activity. Antifungal activity against C. neoformans opsonized in PHS and/or antibody was partially reduced in the presence of inhibitors of the respiratory burst response. Human, but not murine, DCs released modest amounts of tumor necrosis factor alpha when stimulated with C. neoformans opsonized in PHS and/or antibody. However, opsonized C. neoformans failed to stimulate detectable release of interleukin 10 (IL-10) or IL-12p70 from either DC population. Thus, human and murine DCs show maximal binding to and antifungal activity against C. neoformans via a process highly dependent on opsonization.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Room X626, Boston Medical Center, 650 Albany St., Boston, MA 02118. Phone: (617) 638-7904. Fax: (617) 638-7923. E-mail: slevitz{at}bu.edu.

Editor: T. R. Kozel

{dagger} Present address: Department of Pediatrics, The Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55414.

Infection and Immunity, January 2005, p. 592-598, Vol. 73, No. 1
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.1.592-598.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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