Saccharomyces cerevisiae Induces Immune Enhancing and Shapes Gut Microbiota in Social Wasps.

ABSTRACT: Trained immunity is the enhanced response of the innate immune system to a secondary infection after an initial encounter with a microorganism. This non-specific response to reinfection is a primitive form of adaptation that has been shown to be conserved from plants to mammals. Insects lack an acquired immune component and rely solely on an innate one, and they have expanded it upon traits of plasticity and adaptation against pathogens in the form of immune priming. The recent discoveries of the role of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the insect's ecology and the ability of this yeast to induce trained immunity in different organisms suggest that insects could have developed mechanisms of adaptation and immune enhancing. Here, we report that two yeast strains of S. cerevisiae, p

SUBMITTER: Meriggi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6803456 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature