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The biological relationship of IFN-γ, indoleamine dioxygenase, tryptophan limitation and the persistent state of intracellular parasitism extends beyond chlamydial parasites, as illustrated by consideration of Toxoplasma gondii [ 20].
IDO is known to be expressed in cells infected with intracellular pathogens such as Toxoplasma and Chlamydia species and also by viruses [ 7, 8, 9, 10].
Toxoplasma gondii
A study in mice of resistance to Toxoplasma gondii showed that F 1 offspring of two genetically divergent parent strains were more resistant than either parent strain, but there seems to be no demonstration that heterozygosity at an MHC locus is responsible [ 18 ] , while another reference [ 19 ] that has been cited [ 10 ] as showing overdominance at MHC in the same host-pathogen system does not appear to address the question directly.
In the case of Toxoplasma and Chlamydia it has been proposed that IDO induction is a cellular defense mechanism, designed to limit the proliferation of the invading pathogen by depleting the essential amino acid tryptophan.