Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Malaria parasites both repress host CXCL10 and use it as a cue for growth acceleration

  • Yifat Ofir-Birin,
  • Hila Ben Ami Pilo,
  • Abel Cruz Camacho,
  • Ariel Rudik,
  • Anna Rivkin,
  • Or-Yam Revach,
  • Netta Nir,
  • Tal Block Tamin,
  • Paula Abou Karam,
  • Edo Kiper,
  • Yoav Peleg,
  • Reinat Nevo,
  • Aryeh Solomon,
  • Tal Havkin-Solomon,
  • Alicia Rojas,
  • Ron Rotkopf,
  • Ziv Porat,
  • Dror Avni,
  • Eli Schwartz,
  • Thomas Zillinger,
  • Gunther Hartmann,
  • Antonella Di Pizio,
  • Neils Ben Quashie,
  • Rivka Dikstein,
  • Motti Gerlic,
  • Ana Claudia Torrecilhas,
  • Carmit Levy,
  • Esther N. M. Nolte-‘t Hoen,
  • Andrew G. Bowie,
  • Neta Regev-Rudzki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24997-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

Read online

The chemokine CXCL10 is associated with pathogenesis of cerebral malaria in Plasmodium falciparum infection. Here the authors show that P. falciparum produces extracellular vesicles laden with RNAs that are taken up by monocytes resulting in a RIG-I and HUR-1 mediated mechanism of inhibition of CXCL10 protein translation.