Transient Induction of Cytokine Production in Human Myocardial Fibroblasts by Coxsackievirus B3

Author:

Heim A.1,Zeuke S.1,Weiss S.1,Ruschewski W.1,Grumbach I. M.1

Affiliation:

1. From the Institut für Virologie und Seuchenhygiene (A.H., S.Z., S.W.), Medizinsche Hochschule, Hannover, Germany; Abteilung für Thorax-, Herz-, und Gefässchirurgie (W.R.), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany; and Department of Medicine (I.M.G.), Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Ill.

Abstract

Abstract —Cytokine expression in enterovirus infections of the heart may trigger inflammation and have detrimental effects on myocytes. However, the induction of cytokines in human myocardial cells by cardiotropic enteroviruses, for example, Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3), was not yet demonstrated. Fibroblasts are the predominant cell type of the myocardial interstitium before inflammatory infiltration develops. Hence, we investigated, by enzyme immunoassays, reverse transcription–quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), and nucleic acid sequence–based amplification (NASBA), whether CVB3 induces cytokine expression in cultured human myocardial fibroblasts. As early as 3 hours after infection, RT-qPCR demonstrated a 2-fold increase of interleukin (IL)–6 and IL-8 mRNA compared with basal transcription, resulting in a significant increase of IL-6 and IL-8 to a median level of 1500 pg/mL (range, 1246 to 1858) and 529 pg/mL (range, 428 to 601) in culture supernatants, respectively. IL-6 and IL-8 expression returned to basal levels within 3 and 5 days, respectively, despite a persistent (carrier-state) CVB3 infection. For comparison, IL-6 and IL-8 were induced in dermal fibroblasts later than 3 days after CVB3 infection. Although the low-level IL-1α transcription of myocardial fibroblasts was not significantly increased, IL-1α was released from cells to culture supernatants 5 days after infection. Furthermore, a suppression of interferon-β transcription was demonstrated up to 24 hours after CVB3 infection of myocardial fibroblasts by highly sensitive NASBA. In conclusion, our results demonstrate a heart-specific pattern of a rapid and transient induction of proinflammatory cytokines after CVB3 infection, whereas the expression of protective interferon-β was suppressed by CVB3.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology

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