PMID- 16817774 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060928 LR - 20181113 IS - 0882-8245 (Print) IS - 1557-8976 (Electronic) IS - 0882-8245 (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 2 DP - 2006 Summer TI - Differential expression of ovine innate immune genes by preterm and neonatal lung epithelia infected with respiratory syncytial virus. PG - 316-23 AB - Preterm infants have increased susceptibility to severe manifestations of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. The cause(s) for this age-dependent vulnerability is/are not well-defined, but alterations in innate immune products have been implicated. In sheep, RSV disease severity has similar age-dependent characteristics and sheep have several related innate molecules for study during pulmonary infection including surfactant protein A (SP-A), surfactant protein D (SP-D), sheep beta defensin 1 (SBD1), monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP1), and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4). However, the in vivo cellular gene expression as a response to RSV infection is poorly understood. In this study, the effect of RSV infection on expression of these innate immune genes was determined for bovine RSV-infected (bRSV+ fluorescence) epithelial cells, adjacent cells lacking bRSV antigen (adjoining cells lacking fluorescence), and control cells from non-infected lung using laser capture microdissection (LCM) and real-time RT-PCR. Control lambs had increased expression of innate immune molecules in full term (term) compared to preterm epithelia with statistical significance in SBD1, SP-D, and TLR4 mRNA. Infected cells (bRSV+ fluorescent cells) had consistently higher mRNA levels of SP-A (preterm and term), MCP1 (preterm and term), and SP-D (preterm). Interestingly, bRSV- cells of infected term lambs had significantly reduced SP-D mRNA expression compared to bRSV+ and control epithelia, suggesting that RSV infected cells may regulate the adjacent epithelial SP-D expression. This study defines specific innate immune components (e.g., SBD1, SP-D, and TLR4) that have differential age-dependent expression in the airway epithelia. Furthermore, cellular bRSV infection enhanced certain innate immune components while suppressing adjacent cellular SP-D expression in term animals. These in vivo gene expression results provide a framework for future studies on age-dependent susceptibility to RSV and RSV pathogenesis. FAU - Kawashima, Kenji AU - Kawashima K AD - Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011-1250, USA. FAU - Meyerholz, David K AU - Meyerholz DK FAU - Gallup, Jack M AU - Gallup JM FAU - Grubor, Branka AU - Grubor B FAU - Lazic, Tatjana AU - Lazic T FAU - Lehmkuhl, Howard D AU - Lehmkuhl HD FAU - Ackermann, Mark R AU - Ackermann MR LA - eng GR - R01 AI062787-04/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI062787/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - 5K08AI055499-03/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - K08 AI055499/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - 05R01AI062787-02/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Viral Immunol JT - Viral immunology JID - 8801552 RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Animals, Newborn MH - *Epithelial Cells/immunology/metabolism/virology MH - *Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental MH - Immunity, Innate/*genetics MH - Lasers MH - Lung/cytology/*virology MH - Microdissection/methods MH - Premature Birth/veterinary MH - RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism MH - Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/immunology/veterinary/virology MH - Respiratory Syncytial Viruses/*pathogenicity MH - Sheep MH - Sheep Diseases/*immunology/virology PMC - PMC2791066 MID - NIHMS160733 EDAT- 2006/07/05 09:00 MHDA- 2006/09/29 09:00 PMCR- 2009/12/09 CRDT- 2006/07/05 09:00 PHST- 2006/07/05 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/09/29 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/07/05 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/12/09 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1089/vim.2006.19.316 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Viral Immunol. 2006 Summer;19(2):316-23. doi: 10.1089/vim.2006.19.316.