H5N1 Virus Activates Signaling Pathways in Human Endothelial Cells Resulting in a Specific Imbalanced Inflammatory Response

Autor: Aloys Lueken, Johannes Roth, Mirco Schmolke, Stephan Ludwig, Dorothee Viemann, Helmut Wittkowski, Yvonne Boergeling, Judith Friesenhagen
Rok vydání: 2011
Předmět:
Interferon Regulatory Factor-7
Immunology
Inflammation/immunology/prevention & control/virology
Cell Communication
Interferon Regulatory Factor-7/physiology
Signal Transduction/genetics/immunology
Biology
medicine.disease_cause
Virus
Proinflammatory cytokine
Influenza A Virus
H1N1 Subtype

Influenza
Human

medicine
Influenza A virus
Humans
Immunology and Allergy
HMGA1a Protein
Influenza A Virus
H5N1 Subtype/growth & development/immunology

Transcription factor
Cells
Cultured

HMGA1a Protein/metabolism/physiology
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
Inflammation
Cell Communication/genetics/immunology
Influenza A Virus
H5N1 Subtype

Gene Expression Profiling
virus diseases
HMGA1
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
Interferon Regulatory Factor-3/physiology
Gene expression profiling
Influenza A Virus
H1N1 Subtype/immunology

Endothelium
Vascular/immunology/metabolism/virology

biology.protein
Interferon Regulatory Factor-3
Influenza
Human/immunology/virology

Endothelium
Vascular

Inflammation Mediators
Signal transduction
Inflammation Mediators/metabolism/physiology
Signal Transduction
Zdroj: Journal of Immunology, Vol. 186, No 1 (2011) pp. 164-173
ISSN: 1550-6606
0022-1767
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0904170
Popis: H5N1 influenza virus infections in humans cause a characteristic systemic inflammatory response syndrome; however, the molecular mechanisms are largely unknown. Endothelial cells (ECs) play a pivotal role in hyperdynamic septic diseases. To unravel specific signaling networks activated by H5N1 we used a genome-wide comparative systems biology approach analyzing gene expression in human ECs infected with three different human and avian influenza strains of high and low pathogenicity. Blocking of specific signaling pathways revealed that H5N1 induces an exceptionally NF-κB–dependent gene response in human endothelia. Additionally, the IFN-driven antiviral program in ECs is shown to be dependent on IFN regulatory factor 3 but significantly impaired upon H5N1 infection compared with low pathogenic influenza virus. As additional modulators of this H5N1-specific imbalanced gene response pattern, we identified HMGA1 as a novel transcription factor specifically responsible for the overwhelming proinflammatory but not antiviral response, whereas NFATC4 was found to regulate transcription of specifically H5N1-induced genes. We describe for the first time, to our knowledge, defined signaling patterns specifically activated by H5N1, which, in contrast to low pathogenic influenza viruses, are responsible for an imbalance of an overwhelming proinflammatory and impaired antiviral gene program.
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