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Early and sustained innate immune response defines pathology and death in nonhuman primates infected by highly pathogenic influenza virus.


ABSTRACT: The mechanisms responsible for the virulence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus in humans remain poorly understood. To identify crucial components of the early host response during these infections by using both conventional and functional genomics tools, we studied 34 cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) to compare a 2004 human H5N1 Vietnam isolate with 2 reassortant viruses possessing the 1918 hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) surface proteins, known conveyors of virulence. One of the reassortants also contained the 1918 nonstructural (NS1) protein, an inhibitor of the host interferon response. Among these viruses, HPAI H5N1 was the most virulent. Within 24 h, the H5N1 virus produced severe bronchiolar and alveolar lesions. Notably, the H5N1 virus targeted type II pneumocytes throughout the 7-day infection, and induced the most dramatic and sustained expression of type I interferons and inflammatory and innate immune genes, as measured by genomic and protein assays. The H5N1 infection also resulted in prolonged margination of circulating T lymphocytes and notable apoptosis of activated dendritic cells in the lungs and draining lymph nodes early during infection. While both 1918 reassortant viruses also were highly pathogenic, the H5N1 virus was exceptional for the extent of tissue damage, cytokinemia, and interference with immune regulatory mechanisms, which may help explain the extreme virulence of HPAI viruses in humans.

SUBMITTER: Baskin CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2642661 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Early and sustained innate immune response defines pathology and death in nonhuman primates infected by highly pathogenic influenza virus.

Baskin Carole R CR   Bielefeldt-Ohmann Helle H   Tumpey Terrence M TM   Sabourin Patrick J PJ   Long James P JP   García-Sastre Adolfo A   Tolnay Airn-E AE   Albrecht Randy R   Pyles John A JA   Olson Pam H PH   Aicher Lauri D LD   Rosenzweig Elizabeth R ER   Murali-Krishna Kaja K   Clark Edward A EA   Kotur Mark S MS   Fornek Jamie L JL   Proll Sean S   Palermo Robert E RE   Sabourin Carol L CL   Katze Michael G MG  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090213 9


The mechanisms responsible for the virulence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus in humans remain poorly understood. To identify crucial components of the early host response during these infections by using both conventional and functional genomics tools, we studied 34 cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) to compare a 2004 human H5N1 Vietnam isolate with 2 reassortant viruses possessing the 1918 hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA)  ...[more]

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