PMID- 17892397 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20071211 LR - 20131121 IS - 1079-9907 (Print) IS - 1079-9907 (Linking) VI - 27 IP - 9 DP - 2007 Sep TI - IFN-alpha treatment enhances porcine Arterivirus infection of monocytes via upregulation of the porcine Arterivirus receptor sialoadhesin. PG - 757-66 AB - The Arterivirus porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) has a specific tropism for a subset of differentiated macrophages. Porcine sialoadhesin was identified as a PRRSV internalization receptor that is, similarly to sialoadhesins from other species, only expressed on subsets of macrophages. Sialoadhesin is not expressed or only expressed at low levels on monocytes, which might explain why monocytes are largely refractory to PRRSV infection. Different molecules have been identified that regulate human, mouse, or rat sialoadhesin expression in in vitro cultivated monocytes and macrophages, but the effect of these varies greatly between species. In this study, we observed that interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) induces sialoadhesin expression on monocytes to levels similar as those on macrophages and that it increases sialoadhesin on macrophages. IFN-alpha-induced sialoadhesin expression was shown to be functional using a red blood cell (RBC) binding assay. Furthermore, a 2 or 3 day IFN-alpha pretreatment of monocytes caused a 20-fold increase in the numbers of PRRSV-infected monocytes and increased production of infectious virus. We conclude that IFN-alpha, although it is a potent antiviral molecule, upregulated sialoadhesin infection on in vitro cultivated monocytes, which results in enhanced PRRSV infection of monocytes. FAU - Delputte, P L AU - Delputte PL AD - Laboratory of Virology, Department of Virology, Parasitology, and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium. peter.delputte@UGent.be FAU - Van Breedam, W AU - Van Breedam W FAU - Barbe, F AU - Barbe F FAU - Van Reeth, K AU - Van Reeth K FAU - Nauwynck, H J AU - Nauwynck HJ LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - J Interferon Cytokine Res JT - Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research JID - 9507088 RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 0 (Interferon-alpha) RN - 0 (Membrane Glycoproteins) RN - 0 (Receptors, Immunologic) RN - 0 (Receptors, Virus) RN - 0 (SIGLEC1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 1) RN - 0 (Siglec1 protein, mouse) RN - 7S5I7G3JQL (Dexamethasone) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Cytokines/metabolism MH - Dexamethasone/metabolism MH - Interferon-alpha/*pharmacology MH - Macrophages, Alveolar/cytology/metabolism MH - Membrane Glycoproteins/*metabolism MH - Monocytes/cytology/*metabolism/*virology MH - Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus/*metabolism MH - Receptors, Immunologic/*metabolism MH - Receptors, Virus/*metabolism MH - Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 1 MH - Swine EDAT- 2007/09/26 09:00 MHDA- 2007/12/12 09:00 CRDT- 2007/09/26 09:00 PHST- 2007/09/26 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/12/12 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/09/26 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1089/jir.2007.0001 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Interferon Cytokine Res. 2007 Sep;27(9):757-66. doi: 10.1089/jir.2007.0001.