Heme Oxygenase-1 Modulates Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Replication and Lung Pathogenesis during Infection

Janyra Espinoza; Miguel León; Pablo Céspedes; Roberto Gomez; Gisela Canedo-Marroquín; Sebastián Riquelme; Francisco Salazar-Echegarai; Phillipe Blancou; Thomas Simon; Ignacio Anegon; Margarita Lay; Pablo Gonzalez; Claudia Riedel; Susan Bueno; Alexis Kalergis

doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1601414

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Heme Oxygenase-1 Modulates Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Replication and Lung Pathogenesis during Infection

Janyra Espinoza ¹ Miguel León ¹ Pablo Céspedes ¹ Roberto Gomez ¹ Gisela Canedo-Marroquín ¹ Sebastián Riquelme ¹ Francisco Salazar-Echegarai ¹ Phillipe Blancou ² Thomas Simon ² Ignacio Anegon ² Margarita Lay ³ Pablo Gonzalez ¹ Claudia Riedel ⁴ Susan Bueno ¹ Alexis Kalergis ^{2, 1, 5, *}

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1 Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas - Departamento de Microbiologıa y Genetica Molecular [Santiago, Chile]

2 U1064 Inserm - CRTI - Centre de Recherche en Transplantation et Immunologie

3 Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Recursos Biologicos - Departamento de Biotecnologıa [Antofagasta, Chile]

4 Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas y Facultad de Medicina - Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas [Santiago, Chile]

5 Facultad de Medicina - Departamento de Endocrinología [Santiago, Chile]

Abstract : Human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) is the leading cause of severe lower respiratory tract infections in children. The development of novel prophylactic and therapeutic antiviral drugs against hRSV is imperative to control the burden of disease in the susceptiblepopulation.Inthisstudy,weexaminedtheeffectsofinducingtheactivityofthehostenzymehemeoxygenase-1(HO-1)on hRSV replication and pathogenesis on lung inﬂammation induced by this virus. Our results show that after hRSV infection, HO-1 induction with metalloporphyrin cobalt protoporphyrin IX signiﬁcantly reduces the loss of body weight due to hRSV-induced disease. Further, HO-1 induction also decreased viral replication and lung inﬂammation, as evidenced by a reduced neutrophil inﬁltration into the airways, with diminished cytokine and chemokine production and reduced T cell function. Concomitantly, upon cobalt protoporphyrin IX treatment, there is a signiﬁcant upregulation in the production of IFN-a/b mRNAs in the lungs. Furthermore, similar antiviral and protective effects occur by inducing the expression of human HO-1 in MHC class II+ cells in transgenic mice. Finally, in vitro data suggest that HO-1 induction can modulate the susceptibility of cells, especially the airway epithelial cells, to hRSV infection.

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