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Memory Responses Compared with Respiratory Syncytial Virus1
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* Department of Immunology,
Department of Medical Microbiology, and
Department of Pediatrics/Child Health, University of Manitoba, and
Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, Winnipeg, Canada
Human metapneumovirus (MPV) is a recently discovered pathogen that causes repeated lower respiratory tract infections beginning in infancy. The prevalence, nature and control of human regulatory responses to MPV are unknown. In this study, we develop and optimize systems to evaluate MPV-driven cytokine responses. Using primary culture of human PBMC from previously exposed adults, MPV-stimulated responses were directly compared with those elicited by genetically and clinically similar respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Intense IL-6 production was evident following culture with infectious or inactivated RSV. MPV elicited IL-6 responses averaging 3.5-fold more intense (p < 0.001). Virus-dependent expression of IL-11, IL-12, IFN-
, and other innate immunity cytokines differed little between MPV and RSV. When examining adaptive immunity, RSV infection elicited strong IFN-
responses by all 60 adults. In marked contrast, MPV elicited IFN- in a lower frequency of adults (p < 0.002) and at levels averaging 6-fold weaker (p < 0.001). These Th1-dominated responses were CD4, CD8, CD86 dependent, and were closely paralleled by strong virus-driven IL-10 and CCL5 production. For MPV and RSV, Th2 (IL-5, IL-13) responses were sporadic, occurring in 10–40% of the population. Thus, MPV and RSV, although both ubiquitous and leading to very high levels of infection, seroconversion, and clinically similar presentation in the population, evoke distinct innate and adaptive T cell-dependent cytokine responses. Although both viruses yield Th1-dominated responses with strong IL-10 and CCL5 production, MPV restimulation results in markedly more robust IL-6 and significantly weaker adaptive cytokine responses, in both prevalence and intensity, than does RSV.
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