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Alenezi H, Parnell G, Schibeci S, Ozkan J, Willcox M, White AJR, Carnt N. Ocular surface immune transcriptome and tear cytokines in corneal infection patients. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2024; 14:1346821. [PMID: 38694515 PMCID: PMC11061372 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1346821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/04/2024] Open
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Background Microbial keratitis is one of the leading causes of blindness globally. An overactive immune response during an infection can exacerbate damage, causing corneal opacities and vision loss. This study aimed to identify the differentially expressed genes between corneal infection patients and healthy volunteers within the cornea and conjunctiva and elucidate the contributing pathways to these conditions' pathogenesis. Moreover, it compared the corneal and conjunctival transcriptomes in corneal-infected patients to cytokine levels in tears. Methods Corneal and conjunctival swabs were collected from seven corneal infection patients and three healthy controls under topical anesthesia. RNA from seven corneal infection patients and three healthy volunteers were analyzed by RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq). Tear proteins were extracted from Schirmer strips via acetone precipitation from 38 cases of corneal infection and 14 healthy controls. The cytokines and chemokines IL-1β, IL-6, CXCL8 (IL-8), CX3CL1, IL-10, IL-12 (p70), IL-17A, and IL-23 were measured using an antibody bead assay. Results A total of 512 genes were found to be differentially expressed in infected corneas compared to healthy corneas, with 508 being upregulated and four downregulated (fold-change (FC) <-2 or > 2 and adjusted p <0.01). For the conjunctiva, 477 were upregulated, and 3 were downregulated (FC <-3 or ≥ 3 and adjusted p <0.01). There was a significant overlap in cornea and conjunctiva gene expression in patients with corneal infections. The genes were predominantly associated with immune response, regulation of angiogenesis, and apoptotic signaling pathways. The most highly upregulated gene was CXCL8 (which codes for IL-8 protein). In patients with corneal infections, the concentration of IL-8 protein in tears was relatively higher in patients compared to healthy controls but did not show statistical significance. Conclusions During corneal infection, many genes were upregulated, with most of them being associated with immune response, regulation of angiogenesis, and apoptotic signaling. The findings may facilitate the development of treatments for corneal infections that can dampen specific aspects of the immune response to reduce scarring and preserve sight.
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- Heba Alenezi
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences in Al-Kharj, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia
- School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Centre for Vision Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Centre for Vision Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Centre for Vision Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Ruiz-Lozano RE, Salan-Gomez M, Rodriguez-Garcia A, Quiroga-Garza ME, Ramos-Dávila EM, Perez VL, Azar NS, Merayo-Lloves J, Hernandez-Camarena JC, Valdez-García JE. Wessely corneal ring phenomenon: An unsolved pathophysiological dilemma. Surv Ophthalmol 2023:S0039-6257(23)00041-3. [PMID: 36882129 DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2023.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Revised: 02/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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The cornea is a densely innervated, avascular tissue showing exceptional inflammatory and immune responses. The cornea is a site of lymphangiogenic and angiogenic privilege devoid of blood and lymphatic vessels that limits the entry of inflammatory cells from the adjacent and highly immunoreactive conjunctiva. Immunological and anatomical differences between the central and peripheral cornea are also necessary to sustain passive immune privilege. The lower density of antigen-presenting cells in the central cornea and the 5:1 peripheral-to-central corneal ratio of C1 are 2 main features conferring passive immune privilege. C1 activates the complement system by antigen-antibody complexes more effectively in the peripheral cornea and, thus, protects the central corneas' transparency from immune-driven and inflammatory reactions. Wessely rings, also known as corneal immune rings, are non-infectious ring-shaped stromal infiltrates usually formed in the peripheral cornea. They result from a hypersensitivity reaction to foreign antigens, including those of microorganism origin. Thus, they are thought to be composed of inflammatory cells and antigen-antibody complexes. Corneal immune rings have been associated with various infectious and non-infectious causes, including foreign bodies, contact lens wear, refractive procedures, and drugs. We describe the anatomical and immunologic basis underlying Wessely ring formation, its causes, clinical presentation, and management.
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- Raul E Ruiz-Lozano
- Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Monterrey, Mexico
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Monterrey, Mexico
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Monterrey, Mexico
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- Foster Center for Ocular Immunology, Duke Eye Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Monterrey, Mexico
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- Foster Center for Ocular Immunology, Duke Eye Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Foster Center for Ocular Immunology, Duke Eye Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Instituto Universitario Fernández Vega, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Monterrey, Mexico
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Monterrey, Mexico.
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Dağ Y, Acet Y. Evaluation of the Effect of İnfection and İmmunity on the Tear Film by Scheimpflug-Placido Disc Topography- A Case Control Study. Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther 2023; 41:103216. [PMID: 36470405 PMCID: PMC9719847 DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2022.103216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 11/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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PURPOSE We aimed to compare the tear film stability of individuals who had recovered from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), that of individuals vaccinated against COVID-19 and that of healthy individuals in a control group. METHODS This study included 61 eyes of 61 post-COVID-19 patients, 63 eyes of 63 participants who had received at least two doses of the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine, and 57 eyes of healthy individuals in a control group. We compared the groups' tear film stability. RESULTS The mean non-invasive first tear break-up time (NIF-BUT) value was 4.1±2.7 seconds in the post-COVID-19 group, 4.7±2.9 seconds in the vaccinated group, and 5.8±2.8 seconds in the control group. This value was statistically significantly lower in the post-COVID-19 and vaccinated groups than in the control group (p= 0.007). The rate of superotemporal (ST) quadrant breakup, statistically significantly higher in the vaccinated group than in the other two groups (p=0.001). According to a qualitative examination of the results, at least one breakup occurred in 47 (77%) of the post-COVID-19 participants' eyes, 50 (79.4%) of the vaccinated group's eyes, and 33 (57.9%) of the control group's eyes. In terms of this qualitative value, the post-COVID-19 and vaccinated groups had significantly higher breakup rates than the control group (p=0.018). CONCLUSIONS Destabilization in the tear film was more common in both the post covid group and the vaccinated group. In addition to individuals who have post-Covid, we think that post-vaccination individuals should be followed closely in terms of ocular surface diseases.
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- Yaşar Dağ
- Department of Ophthalmology, Başakşehir çam ve sakura city hospital. Istanbul, Turkey, Mobile: +0905330188247.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Mardin Training and Research Hospital. Mardin, Turkey, Mobile: +0905307849019.
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Barrett A, Gnehm D, Jones J, Trask BC. α1‐antitrypsin and C‐reactive protein levels in tear fluid after continuous contact lens wear. Clin Exp Optom 2021; 97:66-71. [DOI: 10.1111/cxo.12093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2012] [Revised: 01/28/2013] [Accepted: 02/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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- Aaron Barrett
- Medical Laboratory Sciences Department, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA,
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- Medical Laboratory Sciences Department, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA,
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- Medical Laboratory Sciences Department, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA,
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- Zoology Department, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA,
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Mousa HM, Saban DR, Perez VL. The cornea IV immunology, infection, neovascularization, and surgery chapter 1: Corneal immunology. Exp Eye Res 2021; 205:108502. [PMID: 33607075 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2021.108502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Revised: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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PURPOSE of Review: This review offers an informed and up-to-date insight on the immune profile of the cornea and the factors that govern the regulation of such a unique immune environment. SUMMARY The cornea is a unique tissue that performs the specialized task of allowing light to penetrate for visual interpretation. To accomplish this, the ocular surface requires a distinct immune environment that is achieved through unique structural, cellular and molecular factors. Not only must the cornea be able to fend off invasive infectious agents but also control the inflammatory response as to avoid collateral, and potentially blinding damage; particularly of post-mitotic cells such as the corneal endothelium. To combat infections, both innate and adaptive arms of the inflammatory immune response are at play in the cornea. Dendritic cells play a critical role in coordinating both these responses in order to fend off infections. On the other side of the spectrum, the ocular surface is also endowed with a variety of anatomic and physiologic components that aid in regulating the immune response to prevent excessive, potentially damaging, inflammation. This attenuation of the immune response is termed immune privilege. The balance between pro and anti-inflammatory reactions is key for preservation of the functional integrity of the cornea. RECENT FINDINGS The understanding of the molecular and cellular factors governing corneal immunology and its response to antigens is a growing field. Dendritic cells in the normal cornea play a crucial role in combating infections and coordinating the inflammatory arms of the immune response, particularly through coordination with T-helper cells. The role of neuropeptides is recently becoming more highlighted with different factors working on both sides of the inflammatory balance.
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- Hazem M Mousa
- Foster Center for Ocular Immunology at Duke Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Foster Center for Ocular Immunology at Duke Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Foster Center for Ocular Immunology at Duke Eye Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
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Lee JS, Mukherjee S, Lee JY, Saha A, Chodosh J, Painter DF, Rajaiya J. Entry of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis-Associated Human Adenovirus Type 37 in Human Corneal Epithelial Cells. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2020; 61:50. [PMID: 32852546 PMCID: PMC7453050 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.61.10.50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Purpose Ocular infection by human adenovirus species D type 37 (HAdV-D37) causes epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, a severe, hyperacute condition. The corneal component of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis begins upon infection of corneal epithelium, and the mechanism of viral entry dictates subsequent proinflammatory gene expression. Therefore, it is important to understand the specific pathways of adenoviral entry in these cells. Methods Transmission electron microscopy of primary and tert-immortalized human corneal epithelial cells infected with HAdV-D37 was performed to identify the means of viral entry. Confocal microscopy was used to determine intracellular trafficking. The results of targeted small interfering RNA and specific chemical inhibitors were analyzed by quantitative PCR, and Western blot. Results By transmission electron microscopy, HAdV-D37 was seen to enter by both clathrin-coated pits and macropinocytosis; however, entry was both pH and dynamin 2 independent. Small interfering RNA against clathrin, AP2A1, and lysosome-associated membrane protein 1, but not early endosome antigen 1, decreased early viral gene expression. Ethyl-isopropyl amiloride, which blocks micropinocytosis, did not affect HAdV-D37 entry, but IPA, an inhibitor of p21-activated kinase, and important to actin polymerization, decreased viral entry in a dose-dependent manner. Conclusions HAdV-D37 enters human corneal epithelial cells by a noncanonical clathrin-mediated pathway involving lysosome-associated membrane protein 1 and PAK1, independent of pH, dynamin, and early endosome antigen 1. We showed earlier that HAdV-D37 enters human keratocytes through caveolae. Therefore, epidemic keratoconjunctivitis-associated viruses enter different corneal cell types via disparate pathways, which could account for a relative paucity of proinflammatory gene expression upon infection of corneal epithelial cells compared with keratocytes, as seen in prior studies.
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- Ji Sun Lee
- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Comparison of ophthalmic toxicity of light-emitting diode and organic light-emitting diode light sources. Sci Rep 2020; 10:11582. [PMID: 32665663 PMCID: PMC7360575 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68565-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2018] [Accepted: 06/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The use of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) has rapidly increased in recent years. However, the effect of OLEDs on human health has not been studied yet. We investigated morphologic and functional changes after OLEDs exposure of human ocular cells, including corneal, conjunctival, lens, and retinal pigment epithelial cells, and mouse eyes. In corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells, the levels of reactive oxygen species production and interleukin-8 expression after white light-emitting diodes (LED) exposure were significantly greater than those after OLED exposure. Although no gross morphologic changes of the eyelid or cornea were found in LED- or OLED-exposed mice, oxidative stress on ocular surface was significantly increased, and the outer nuclear layer (ONL) was significantly shorter in both light-treated groups than the control group. Moreover, ONL thickness was significantly lower in the LED group than the OLED group. The electroretinography response was significantly lower in light exposure group, and there was significant difference between LED- and OLED-treated mice. Although OLED exhibits certain ocular toxicity, it can be less toxic to eyes than LED. The higher blue-wavelength energy of LED light might be the reason for its higher toxicity relative to OLED.
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Absence of Signal Peptide Peptidase, an Essential Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Glycoprotein K Binding Partner, Reduces Virus Infectivity In Vivo. J Virol 2019; 93:JVI.01309-19. [PMID: 31511378 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01309-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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We previously reported that herpes simplex virus (HSV) glycoprotein K (gK) binds to signal peptide peptidase (SPP), also known as minor histocompatibility antigen H13. Binding of gK to SPP is required for HSV-1 infectivity in vitro SPP is a member of the γ-secretase family, and mice lacking SPP are embryonic lethal. To determine how SPP affects HSV-1 infectivity in vivo, the SPP gene was deleted using a tamoxifen-inducible Cre recombinase driven by the ubiquitously expressed ROSA26 promoter. SPP mRNA was reduced by more than 93% in the cornea and trigeminal ganglia (TG) and by 99% in the liver of tamoxifen-injected mice, while SPP protein expression was reduced by 90% compared to the level in control mice. Mice lacking SPP had significantly less HSV-1 replication in the eye as well as reduced gK, UL20, ICP0, and gB transcripts in the cornea and TG compared to levels in control mice. In addition, reduced infiltration of CD45+, CD4+, CD8+, F4/80+, CD11c+, and NK1.1+ T cells was observed in the cornea and TG of SPP-inducible knockout mice compared to that in control mice. Finally, in the absence of SPP, latency was significantly reduced in SPP-inducible knockout mice compared to that in control mice. Thus, in this study we have generated SPP-inducible knockout mice and shown that the absence of SPP affects virus replication in the eye of ocularly infected mice and that this reduction is correlated with the interaction of gK and SPP. These results suggest that blocking this interaction may have therapeutic potential in treating HSV-1-associated eye disease.IMPORTANCE Glycoprotein K (gK) is an essential and highly conserved HSV-1 protein. Previously, we reported that gK binds to SPP, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein, and blocking this binding reduces virus infectivity in vitro and also affects gK and UL20 subcellular localization. To evaluate the function of gK binding to SPP in vivo, we generated SPP-inducible knockout mice and observed the following in the absence of SPP: (i) that significantly less HSV-1 replication was seen in ocularly infected mice than in control mice; (ii) that expression of various HSV-1 genes and cellular infiltrates in the eye and trigeminal ganglia of infected mice was less than that in control mice; and (iii) that latency was significantly reduced in infected mice. Thus, blocking of gK binding to SPP may be a useful tool to control HSV-1-induced eye disease in patients with herpes stromal keratitis (HSK).
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Pennington MR, Saha A, Painter DF, Gavazzi C, Ismail AM, Zhou X, Chodosh J, Rajaiya J. Disparate Entry of Adenoviruses Dictates Differential Innate Immune Responses on the Ocular Surface. Microorganisms 2019; 7:E351. [PMID: 31540200 PMCID: PMC6780103 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms7090351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Revised: 09/08/2019] [Accepted: 09/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Human adenovirus infection of the ocular surface is associated with severe keratoconjunctivitis and the formation of subepithelial corneal infiltrates, which may persist and impair vision for months to years following infection. Long term pathology persists well beyond the resolution of viral replication, indicating that the prolonged immune response is not virus-mediated. However, it is not clear how these responses are sustained or even initiated following infection. This review discusses recent work from our laboratory and others which demonstrates different entry pathways specific to both adenovirus and cell type. These findings suggest that adenoviruses may stimulate specific pattern recognition receptors in an entry/trafficking-dependent manner, leading to distinct immune responses dependent on the virus/cell type combination. Additional work is needed to understand the specific connections between adenoviral entry and the stimulation of innate immune responses by the various cell types present on the ocular surface.
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- Matthew R Pennington
- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Howe Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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Wang S, Hirose S, Ghiasi H. The Absence of Lymphotoxin-α, a Herpesvirus Entry Mediator (HVEM) Ligand, Affects Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infection In Vivo Differently than the Absence of Other HVEM Cellular Ligands. J Virol 2019; 93:e00707-19. [PMID: 31142672 PMCID: PMC6675894 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00707-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Previously, we reported that the absence of herpesvirus entry mediator (HVEM) decreases latency but not primary infection in ocularly infected mice. Recently, we reported that similar to the absence of HVEM, the absence of HVEM ligands (i.e., LIGHT, CD160, and B and T lymphocyte attenuator [BTLA]) also decreased latency but not primary infection. Similar to LIGHT, CD160, and BTLA, another member of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily, lymphotoxin-α (LTα), also interacts with HVEM. To determine whether LTα decreases latency in infected mice, we ocularly infected LTα-/- mice with latency-associated transcript-positive [LAT(+)] and LAT(-) viruses using similarly infected wild-type (WT) mice as controls. In contrast to WT C57BL/6 mice, LTα-/- mice were highly susceptible to ocular herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infection, independent of the presence or absence of LAT. Survival was partially restored by adoptive transfer of CD4+, CD8+, or total T cells. Infected LTα-/- mice had significantly higher corneal scarring than WT mice, and adoptive T cell transfer did not alter the severity of eye disease. In contrast to results in WT mice, the amount of latency was not affected by the absence of LAT. The amount of LAT RNA in LTα-/- mice infected with LAT(+) virus was similar to that in WT mice, and adoptive T cell transfer did not alter LAT RNA levels in LTα-/- infected mice. Increased latency in the absence of LTα correlated with upregulation of HVEM, LIGHT, CD160, and BTLA transcripts as well as with an increase in markers of T cell exhaustion. The results of our study suggest that LTα has antipathogenic and anti-inflammatory functions and may act to protect the host from infection.IMPORTANCE Recently, we evaluated the effects of HVEM and its ligands (LIGHT, CD160, and BTLA) on HSV-1 infectivity. However, the effect of LTα, another member of the TNF superfamily, on HSV-1 latency and eye disease is not known. Here, we demonstrate increased latency and corneal scarring in LTα-/- infected mice, independent of the presence of LAT. In addition, infected mice were highly susceptible to HSV-1 infection, and survival was partially but not significantly restored by adoptive T cell transfer. These results suggest that the absence of LTα affects HSV-1 infectivity differently than the absence of HVEM, LIGHT, CD160, and BTLA.
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- Shaohui Wang
- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Como CN, Bubak AN, Blackmon AM, Jones D, Mueller NH, Davidson R, Nagel MA. Varicella Zoster Virus Induces Differential Cell-Type Specific Responses in Human Corneal Epithelial Cells and Keratocytes. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2019; 60:704-711. [PMID: 30786281 PMCID: PMC6383726 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.18-25801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Purpose While VZV DNA and antigen have been detected in acute and chronic VZV keratitis, it is unclear whether productive infection of corneal cells is ongoing or whether residual, noninfectious VZV antigens elicit inflammation. Herein, we examined VZV-infected primary human corneal epithelial cells (HCECs) and keratocytes (HKs) to elucidate the pathogenesis of VZV keratitis. Methods HCECs and HKs were mock- or VZV infected. Seven days later, cells were examined for morphology, proinflammatory cytokine and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) release, ability to recruit peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and neutrophils, and MMP substrate cleavage. Results Both cell types synthesized infectious virus. VZV-infected HCECs proliferated, whereas VZV-infected HKs died. Compared to mock-infected cells, VZV-infected HCECs secreted significantly more IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, and IL-12p70 that were confirmed at the transcript level, and MMP-1 and MMP-9; conditioned supernatant attracted PBMCs and neutrophils and cleaved MMP substrates. In contrast, VZV-infected HKs suppressed cytokine secretion except for IL-8, which attracted neutrophils, and suppressed MMP release and substrate cleavage. Conclusions Overall, VZV-infected HCECs recapitulate findings of VZV keratitis with respect to epithelial cell proliferation, pseudodendrite formation and creation of a proinflammatory environment, providing an in vitro model for VZV infection of corneal epithelial cells. Furthermore, the proliferation and persistence of VZV-infected HCECs suggest that these cells may serve as viral reservoirs if immune clearance is incomplete. Finally, the finding that VZV-infected HKs die and suppress most proinflammatory cytokines and MMPs may explain the widespread death of these cells with unchecked viral spread due to ineffective recruitment of PBMCs.
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- Christina N Como
- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States.,Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States.,Department of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States
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Hirose S, Wang S, Tormanen K, Wang Y, Tang J, Akbari O, Ghiasi H. Roles of Type 1, 2, and 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells in Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infection In Vitro and In Vivo. J Virol 2019; 93:e00523-19. [PMID: 31019056 PMCID: PMC6580970 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00523-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 04/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) play important roles in host defense and inflammation. They are classified into three distinct groups based on their cytokine and chemokine secretion patterns and transcriptome profiles. Here, we show that ILCs isolated from mice can be infected with herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) but that subsequent replication of the virus is compromised. After infection, type 2 ILCs expressed significantly higher levels of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), interleukin 1α (IL-1α), IL-6, IL-9, RANTES, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), CXCL1, CXCL2, CXCL10, CCL3, and CCL4 than infected type 1 or type 3 ILCs. Transcriptome-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis of the ILCs 24 h after HSV-1 infection revealed that 77 herpesvirus genes were detected in the infected type 3 ILCs, whereas only 11 herpesvirus genes were detected in infected type 1 ILCs and 27 in infected type 2 ILCs. Compared with uninfected cells, significant upregulation of over 4,000 genes was seen in the HSV-1-infected type 3 ILCs, whereas 414 were upregulated in the infected type 1 ILCs and 128 in the infected type 2 ILCs. In contrast, in all three cell types, only a limited number of genes were significantly downregulated. Type 1, type 2, and type 3 ILC-deficient mice were used to gain insights into the effects of the ILCs on the outcome of ocular HSV-1 infection. No significant differences were found on comparison with similarly infected wild-type mice or on comparison of the three strains of deficient mice in terms of virus replication in the eyes, levels of corneal scarring, latency-reactivation in the trigeminal ganglia, or T-cell exhaustion. Although there were no significant differences in the survival rates of infected ILC-deficient mice and wild-type mice, there was significantly reduced survival of the infected type 1 or type 3 ILC-deficient mice compared with type 2 ILC-deficient mice. Adoptive transfer of wild-type T cells did not alter survival or any other parameters tested in the infected mice. Our results indicate that type 1, 2, and 3 ILCs respond differently to HSV-1 infection in vitro and that the absence of type 1 or type 3, but not type 2, ILCs affects the survival of ocularly infected mice.IMPORTANCE In this study, we investigated for the first time what roles, if any, innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) play in HSV-1 infection. Analysis of isolated ILCs in vitro revealed that all three subtypes could be infected with HSV-1 but that they were resistant to replication. The expression profiles of HSV-1-induced cytokines/chemokines and cellular and viral genes differed among the infected type 1, 2, and 3 ILCs in vitro While ILCs play no role or a redundant role in the outcomes of latency-reactivation in infected mice, absence of type 1 and type 3, but not type 2, ILCs affects the survival of infected mice.
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- Satoshi Hirose
- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Genomics Core, Department of Biomedical Science, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Genomics Core, Department of Biomedical Science, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Zhang Y, Liang Q, Liu Y, Pan Z, Baudouin C, Labbé A, Lu Q. Expression of cytokines in aqueous humor from fungal keratitis patients. BMC Ophthalmol 2018; 18:105. [PMID: 29673332 PMCID: PMC5907746 DOI: 10.1186/s12886-018-0754-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Although a series of reports on corneal fungal infection have been published, studies on pathogenic mechanisms and inflammation-associated cytokines remain limited. In this study, aqueous humor samples from fungal keratitis patients were collected to examine cytokine patterns and cellular profile for the pathogenesis of fungal keratitis. METHODS The aqueous humor samples were collected from ten patients with advanced stage fungal keratitis. Eight aqueous humor samples from patients with keratoconus or corneal dystrophy were taken as control. Approximately 100 μl to 300 μl of aqueous humor in each case were obtained for examination. The aqueous humor samples were centrifuged and the cells were stained and examined under optical microscope. Bacterial and fungal cultures were performed on the aqueous humor and corneal buttons of all patients. Cytokines related to inflammation including IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, TNF-α, and IFN-γ were examined using multiplex bead-based Luminex liquid protein array systems. RESULTS Fungus infection was confirmed in these ten patients by smear stains and/or fungal cultures. Bacterial and fungal cultures revealed negative results in all aqueous humor specimens. Polymorphonuclear leukocytes were the predominant infiltrating cells in the aqueous humor of fungal keratitis. At the advanced stages of fungal keratitis, the levels of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, and IFN-γ in the aqueous humor were significantly increased when compared with control (p<0.01). The levels of IL-10 and TNF-α also showed an ascending trend but with no statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS High concentration of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, and IFN-γ in the aqueous humor was associated with fungal keratitis.
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- Yingnan Zhang
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Beijing, 100005, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing, 100730, China.
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- Quinze-Vingts National Ophthalmology Hospital, Paris and Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Versailles, France.,INSERM, U968, Paris, F-75012, France; UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S 968, Institut de la Vision, Paris F-75012, France; CNRS, UMR_7210, Paris F-75012, France, Paris, France
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- Quinze-Vingts National Ophthalmology Hospital, Paris and Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Versailles, France.,INSERM, U968, Paris, F-75012, France; UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S 968, Institut de la Vision, Paris F-75012, France; CNRS, UMR_7210, Paris F-75012, France, Paris, France
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Louisville, 301 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA
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Ahsan SM, Rao CM. Condition responsive nanoparticles for managing infection and inflammation in keratitis. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:9946-9959. [PMID: 28681884 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr00922d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Keratitis is a major cause of avoidable visual impairment. About 30% of patients with fungal keratitis eventually become permanently blind in the developing world. Proteases, secreted by the pathogen and the host, damage the cornea before the infection is resolved. Treating keratitis is a challenge because both infection and inflammation need to be addressed. An additional challenge is to maintain a therapeutic dose at the corneal surface as blinking and tear film wash away the drugs, administered as eye drops. We have developed a nanoparticle-based drug delivery system that enhances the drug residence time by anchoring to the cornea, down-regulates inflammation and releases the antifungal drug: all in a condition-responsive manner. The expression of Toll-Like Receptors (TLR4) on the corneal epithelial cells increases in response to infection. We have conjugated anti-TLR4 antibodies on the surface of ketoconazole-encapsulated gelatin nanoparticles. The anti-TLR4 antibody not only facilitates binding of nanoparticles to the cornea, enhancing their residence time, but also reduces the levels of inflammatory cytokines. Host and fungal proteases degrade the gelatin nanoparticle, an alternative substrate for proteases, thereby reducing corneal damage and releasing the encapsulated drug, ketoconazole, proportional to the severity of infection. After testing the efficacy of the system with human corneal epithelial cells, we have extended our studies to a rat model of keratitis. The results show a significantly increased corneal retention, suppressed inflammation and resolution of infection in the infected eyes. We believe that this will be an excellent approach to manage keratitis as well as other topical ocular infections.
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- Saad M Ahsan
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Uppal Road, Hyderabad - 500 007, Telangana, India.
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Park PJ, Chang M, Garg N, Zhu J, Chang JH, Shukla D. Corneal lymphangiogenesis in herpetic stromal keratitis. Surv Ophthalmol 2014; 60:60-71. [PMID: 25444520 DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2014.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2014] [Revised: 05/23/2014] [Accepted: 06/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Corneal lymphangiogenesis is the extension of lymphatic vessels into the normally alymphatic cornea, a process that compromises the cornea's immune-privileged state and facilitates herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK). HSK results most commonly from infection by herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) and is characterized by immune- and inflammation-mediated damage to the deep layers of the cornea. Current research demonstrates the potential of anti-lymphangiogenic therapy to decrease and prevent herpes-induced lymphangiogenesis.
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- Paul J Park
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Department Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) infects the majority of the world's population. These infections are often asymptomatic, but ocular HSV-1 infections cause multiple pathologies with perhaps the most destructive being herpes stromal keratitis (HSK). HSK lesions, which are immunoinflammatory in nature, can recur throughout life and often cause progressive corneal scaring resulting in visual impairment. Current treatment involves broad local immunosuppression with topical steroids along with antiviral coverage. Unfortunately, the immunopathologic mechanisms defined in animal models of HSK have not yet translated into improved therapy. Herein, we review the clinical epidemiology and pathology of the disease and summarize the large amount of basic research regarding the immunopathology of HSK. We examine the role of the innate and adaptive immune system in the clearance of virus and the destruction of the normal corneal architecture that is typical of HSK. Our goal is to define current knowledge of the pathogenic mechanisms and recurrent nature of HSK and identify areas that require further study.
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Qazi BS, Tang K, Qazi A. Recent advances in underlying pathologies provide insight into interleukin-8 expression-mediated inflammation and angiogenesis. Int J Inflam 2011; 2011:908468. [PMID: 22235381 PMCID: PMC3253461 DOI: 10.4061/2011/908468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2011] [Revised: 08/15/2011] [Accepted: 09/06/2011] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Interleukin-8 has long been recognized to have anti-inflammatory activity, which has been established in various models of infection, inflammation, and cancer. Several cell types express the receptor for the cytokine IL-8 and upon its recognition produce molecules that are active both locally and systemically. Many different types of cells, in particular monocytes, neutrophils, epithelial, fibroblast, endothelial, mesothelial, and tumor cells, secrete IL-8. Increased expression of IL-8 and/or its receptors has been characterized in many chronic inflammatory conditions, including psoriasis, ARDS, COPD, and RA as well as many cancers, and its upregulation often correlates with disease activity. IL-8 constitutes the CXC class of chemokines, a potent chemoattractant and activator of neutrophils and other immune cells. It is a proangiogenic cytokine that is overexpressed in many human cancers. Therefore, inhibiting the effects of IL-8 signaling may be a significant therapeutic intervention.
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- Basit Saleem Qazi
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery Spine Unit, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, 222 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, Liaoning 116011, China
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Virotherapy induces massive infiltration of neutrophils in a subset of tumors defined by a strong endogenous interferon response activity. Cancer Gene Ther 2011; 18:785-94. [PMID: 21869820 PMCID: PMC3196785 DOI: 10.1038/cgt.2011.46] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Oncolytic virotherapy has shown substantial promises as an alternative therapeutic modality for solid tumors in both preclinical studies and clinical trials. The main therapeutic activity of virotherapy derives from the direct lytic effect associated with virus replication and the induction of host immune responses to the infected tumor cells. Here we show that some human and murine tumor cell lines are highly resistant to the lytic effect of a type II herpes simplex virus-derived oncolytic virus, FusOn-H2, which was constructed by deleting the N-terminal region of the ICP10 gene. However, these tumor cells still respond exceptionally well to FusOn-H2 virotherapy in vivo. Histological examination of the treated tumors revealed that, in contrast to tumors supporting FusOn-H2 replication, implants of these highly resistant lines showed massive infiltration of neutrophils after virotherapy. Further analysis showed that there is a correlation between an intrinsically strong interferon response activity and the recruitment of neutrophils in these tumors. These results suggest that an innate immune response mainly represented by neutrophils may be part of the virotherapy-mediated antitumor mechanism in these tumors.
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Effect of Toll-like receptor 2 and 4 of corneal fibroblasts on cytokine expression with co-cultured antigen presenting cells. Cytokine 2011; 56:265-71. [PMID: 21820318 DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2011.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2011] [Revised: 04/29/2011] [Accepted: 07/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Keratocytes are the first component to contact ocular pathogens when the epithelial barrier breaks down and the emerging evidences indicated keratocytes appeared to be one of the corneal cellular immune components. Little is known about the role of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in keratocytes, although it has been well documented that keratocytes constitutively express various TLRs including TLR2 and TLR4. In this in vitro study, the authors focused on the role of keratocytes in corneal innate immune system and cross-talk of keratocytes with resident antigen presenting cells (APCs), especially through TLR2 and TLR4. Primary cultivated keratocytes (corneal fibroblasts) from C57BL/6 mice per se actively secreted pro-inflammatory cytokines, especially interleukin (IL)-6, with a dose-dependent manner in response to Pam3CSK4 or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge. With co-culture of corneal fibroblasts with APCs per se, secretion of IL-6 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α was markedly increased and it was counterbalanced by concurrent increase in IL-10 and tumor growth factor-β1. After Pam3CSK4 or LPS stimulation, this cytokine balance was completely broken down by overwhelming amplification of IL-6 and TNF-α secretion, especially in co-culture of corneal fibroblasts with macrophages, rather than with dendritic cells. Using corneal fibroblasts from TLR2 or TLR4 knockout mice, we could find the reversal of Pam3CSK4 or LPS-responsive dose-dependent increment in IL-6 and TNF-α. These results implied that corneal fibroblasts and their TLRs could be key components for the ocular homeostasis and pathogen-associated ocular innate immunity.
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The ocular surface is continuously exposed to environmental agents such as allergens, pollutants, and microorganisms, which could provoke inflammation. However, an array of anatomical, physiological, and immunological features of the ocular surface conspire to limit corneal inflammation and endow the eye with immune privilege. A remarkable example of ocular immune privilege is the success of corneal allografts, which unlike all other forms of organ transplantation, survive without the use of systemic immunosuppressive drugs or MHC matching. This review describes the anatomical, physiological, and dynamic immunoregulatory processes that contribute to immune privilege.
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- Jerry Y Niederkorn
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
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Prasad KM, Eack SM, Goradia D, Pancholi KM, Keshavan MS, Yolken RH, Nimgaonkar VL. Progressive gray matter loss and changes in cognitive functioning associated with exposure to herpes simplex virus 1 in schizophrenia: a longitudinal study. Am J Psychiatry 2011; 168:822-30. [PMID: 21632649 PMCID: PMC4209378 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.10101423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Longitudinal changes in gray matter volume and cognitive performance were evaluated among individuals exposed to neurotropic herpes simplex virus subtype 1 (HSV1). There is a replicable association of HSV1 exposure with smaller prefrontal volumes and cognitive impairments in schizophrenia. METHOD The authors concurrently examined the whole-brain longitudinal trajectory over 1 year of gray matter volumes and executive functioning measured with the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test among 26 first-episode antipsychotic-naive subjects with schizophrenia and 38 healthy subjects. Age, gender, socioeconomic status, and exposure to cytomegalovirus (another virus of the herpes family that was previously associated with cognitive impairments) were the covariates. RESULTS Significant gray matter loss in the posterior cingulate gyrus was noted among the HSV1-seropositive schizophrenia subjects over 1 year but not among other groups. Prefrontal gray matter volumes did not show longitudinal changes. Binomial mixed-effects models indicated that improvement over 1 year in Wisconsin Card Sorting Test categories completed and perseverative errors occurred in significantly fewer HSV1-seropositive schizophrenia subjects than in the HSV1-seronegative schizophrenia subjects or the healthy subjects regardless of serological status. Three-way interactions of diagnosis, HSV1 status, and time were significant for both categories completed and perseverative errors. An increase in perseverative errors over 1 year, but not the change in the number of categories completed, correlated with longitudinal volume loss of the posterior cingulate gyrus. CONCLUSIONS These observations suggest that HSV1 exposure may be associated with longitudinal gray matter loss in the posterior cingulate gyrus and decline in executive functioning among subjects with schizophrenia.
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- Konasale M. Prasad
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213,School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21218
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Allen SJ, Mott KR, Ljubimov AV, Ghiasi H. Exacerbation of corneal scarring in HSV-1 gK-immunized mice correlates with elevation of CD8+CD25+ T cells in corneas of ocularly infected mice. Virology 2010; 399:11-22. [PMID: 20079918 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2009] [Revised: 12/07/2009] [Accepted: 12/08/2009] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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We have shown previously that exacerbation of corneal scarring (CS) in HSV-1 glycoprotein K (gK) immunized mice was associated with CD8+ T cells. In this study, we investigated the type and the nature of the immune responses that are involved in the exacerbation of CS in gK-immunized animals. BALB/c mice were vaccinated with baculovirus expressed gK, gD, or mock-immunized. Twenty-one days after the third immunization, mice were ocularly infected with 2 x 10(5) PFU/eye of virulent HSV-1 strain McKrae. Infiltration of the cornea by CD4+, CD8+, CD25+, CD4+CD25+, CD8+CD25+, CD19+, CD40+, CD40L+, CD62L+, CD95+, B7-1+, B7-2+, MHC-I+, and MHC-II+ cells was monitored by immunohistochemistry, qRT-PCR and FACS at various times post-infection (PI). This study demonstrated for the first time that the presence of CD8+CD25+ T cells in the cornea is correlated with exacerbation of CS in the gK-immunized group.
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- Sariah J Allen
- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, CSMC Burns and Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; Ophthalmology Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, CSMC Burns and Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, CSMC Burns and Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; Ophthalmology Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, CSMC Burns and Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- Ophthalmology Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, CSMC Burns and Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, CSMC Burns and Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; Ophthalmology Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, CSMC Burns and Allen Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
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Safvati A, Cole N, Hume E, Willcox M. Mediators of neovascularization and the hypoxic cornea. Curr Eye Res 2009; 34:501-14. [PMID: 19899985 DOI: 10.1080/02713680902919557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The maintenance of corneal avascularity is essential to vision. The mechanisms by which the cornea becomes vascularized in response to inflammation or hypoxic stress are beginning to be elucidated. A detailed understanding of the molecular responses of the cornea to hypoxia is critical for prevention and development of novel treatments for neovascularization in a range of disease states. Here, we have examined the current literature on the major mediators of angiogenesis, which have previously been reported during hypoxia in the cornea in order to better understand the mechanisms by which corneal angiogenesis occurs in circumstances where the available oxygen is reduced. The normal cornea produces angiogenic factors that are regulated by the production of anti-angiogenic molecules. The various cell types of the cornea respond differentially to inflammatory and hypoxic stimuli. An understanding of the factors that may predispose patients to development of corneal blood vessels may provide an opportunity to develop novel prophylactic strategies. The difficulties with extrapolating data from other cell types and animal models to the cornea are also examined.
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- Aidin Safvati
- Vision Cooperative Research Centre and School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Miyazaki D, Inoue Y, Araki-Sasaki K, Shimomura Y, Tano Y, Hayashi K. Neutrophil chemotaxis induced by corneal epithelial cells after herpes simplex virus type 1 infection. Curr Eye Res 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/02713689808951244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Level of herpes simplex virus type 1 latency correlates with severity of corneal scarring and exhaustion of CD8+ T cells in trigeminal ganglia of latently infected mice. J Virol 2008; 83:2246-54. [PMID: 19091870 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02234-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A hallmark of infection with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is the establishment of latency in ganglia of the infected individual. During the life of the latently infected individual, the virus can occasionally reactivate, travel back to the eye, and cause recurrent disease. Indeed, a major cause of corneal scarring (CS) is the scarring induced by HSV-1 following reactivation from latency. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between the amount of CS and the level of the HSV-1 latency-associated transcript (LAT) in trigeminal ganglia (TG) of latently infected mice. Our results suggested that the amount of CS was not related to the amount of virus replication following primary ocular HSV-1 infection, since replication in the eyes was similar in mice that did not develop CS, mice that developed CS in just one eye, and mice that developed CS in both eyes. In contrast, mice with no CS had significantly less LAT, and thus presumably less latency, in their TG than mice that had CS in both eyes. Higher CS also correlated with higher levels of mRNAs for PD-1, CD4, CD8, F4/80, interleukin-4, gamma interferon, granzyme A, and granzyme B in both cornea and TG. These results suggest that (i) the immunopathology induced by HSV-1 infection does not correlate with primary virus replication in the eye; (ii) increased CS appears to correlate with increased latency in the TG, although the possible cause-and-effect relationship is not known; and (iii) increased latency in mouse TG correlates with higher levels of PD-1 mRNA, suggesting exhaustion of CD8+ T cells.
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Vij N, Sharma A, Thakkar M, Sinha S, Mohan RR. PDGF-driven proliferation, migration, and IL8 chemokine secretion in human corneal fibroblasts involve JAK2-STAT3 signaling pathway. Mol Vis 2008; 14:1020-7. [PMID: 18523665 PMCID: PMC2408775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2008] [Accepted: 05/22/2008] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is associated with corneal fibroblast migration and proliferation and plays an important role in corneal wound healing. However, the intracellular mechanisms of PDGF-mediated functions in corneal fibroblasts are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that PDGF functional activities in the cornea involve the Janus kinase-2/signal transducers and activators of transcription-3 (JAK2-STAT3) signaling pathway and whether PDGF induces the expression of suppressors of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3), belonging to the novel family of feedback regulators of cytokine and growth factor activities. METHODS Human corneal fibroblast (HSF) cultures were used as an in vitro model for functional analysis. Real-time polymerase chain reactions were performed to quantify gene expression. Immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting techniques were used to measure protein expression. Cell growth, migration, and ELISA assays were used for functional validation. RESULTS Low endogenous levels of STAT3 and SOCS3 mRNA and protein expression were noted in HSFs. PDGF treatment of HSF significantly induced SOCS3 mRNA (3.0-4.5 fold) and protein (1.5-2.5 fold) expression in a time-dependent manner. Similarly, PDGF treatment of HSF significantly increased STAT3 protein expression at two tested time points (2.5-2.96 fold). Cultures exposed to vehicle (control) did not show any change in SOCS3 and STAT3 mRNA or protein expression. An addition of AG-490, a selective inhibitor of the JAK2-STAT3 pathway, significantly inhibited PDGF-mediated STAT3 induction and cell growth and migration in HSF. We also observed that PDGF induced interleukin-8 (IL8) chemokine secretion (2 fold) and AG-490 inhibited IL8 secretion. CONCLUSIONS Our data showed that PDGF induced STAT3, SOCS3, and IL8 chemokine secretion in human corneal fibroblasts. Further, PDGF-induced cell growth, migration, and IL8 secretion in corneal fibroblast involve the JAK2-STAT3 signaling pathway.
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- Neeraj Vij
- Mason Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
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- Mason Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO,Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO
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- Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO,Department of Neurology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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- Mason Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO,Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO
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- Mason Eye Institute, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO,College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO,Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO
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Van de Walle GR, May ML, Sukhumavasi W, von Einem J, Osterrieder N. Herpesvirus Chemokine-Binding Glycoprotein G (gG) Efficiently Inhibits Neutrophil Chemotaxis In Vitro and In Vivo. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 179:4161-9. [PMID: 17785855 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.179.6.4161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Glycoprotein G (gG) of alphaherpesviruses has been described to function as a viral chemokine-binding protein (vCKBP). More recently, mutant viruses devoid of gG have been shown to result in increased virulence, but it remained unclear whether the potential of gG to serve as a vCKBP is responsible for this observation. In this study, we used equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) as a model to study the pathophysiological importance of vCKBP activity. First, in vitro chemotaxis assays studying migration of immune cells, an important function of chemokines, were established. In such assays, supernatants of EHV-1-infected cells significantly inhibited IL-8-induced chemotaxis of equine neutrophils. Identification of gG as the responsible vCKBP was achieved by repeating similar experiments with supernatants from cells infected with a gG-negative mutant, which were unable to alter IL-8-induced equine neutrophil migration. Furthermore, rEHV-1 gG was able to significantly reduce neutrophil migration, establishing gG as a bona fide vCKBP. Second, and importantly, in vivo analyses in a murine model of EHV-1 infection showed that neutrophil migration in the target organ lung was significantly reduced in the presence of gG. In summary, we demonstrate for the first time that EHV-1 gG not only binds to chemokines but is also capable of inhibiting their chemotactic function both in vitro and in vivo, thereby contributing to viral pathogenesis and virulence.
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- Gerlinde R Van de Walle
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Burns AR, Li Z, Smith CW. Neutrophil migration in the wounded cornea: the role of the keratocyte. Ocul Surf 2007; 3:S173-6. [PMID: 17216113 DOI: 10.1016/s1542-0124(12)70249-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Neutrophil migration into the corneal stroma following epithelial injury is an early event in the non-adaptive immune response. Little is known regarding the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate neutrophil migration within the injured cornea. In this article, evidence is presented supporting the idea that migrating neutrophils form integrin-dependent adhesive contacts not only with extracellular matrix molecules, but also with interstitial cells known as keratocytes. Since keratocytes express adhesion molecules and secrete leukotactic factors, and because they are joined to one another to form a cellular network, we suggest that the keratocyte network plays a prominent role in neutrophil migration by serving as a source of contact guidance and chemoattraction for migrating neutrophils. The proposed neutrophil interactions with keratocytes constitute the beginning of a new experimental paradigm for understanding leukocyte migration within the injured cornea.
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- Alan R Burns
- Department of Medicine, DeBakey Heart Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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McInnis KA, Britain A, Lausch RN, Oakes JE. Human corneal epithelial cells synthesize ELR(-)alpha-chemokines in response to proinflammatory mediators. Ocul Immunol Inflamm 2007; 15:295-302. [PMID: 17763126 DOI: 10.1080/09273940701397117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to characterize the synthesis of alpha-chemokines IP-10, MIG, and I-TAC by human corneal epithelial cells (HCE) following exposure to proinflammatory mediators. Supernatants were collected from HCE cultures stimulated with individual or combinations of TNF-alpha, IL-1alpha, and IFN-gamma, and assayed for alpha-chemokines by ELISA. RT-PCR was used to detect IFN-gamma receptor mRNA. Activation of STAT 1 was determined by Western blotting. Stimulation of HCE with either IL-1alpha or TNF-alpha increased IP-10 protein synthesis up to 6-fold, whereas insignificant levels of MIG and I-TAC were induced. The epithelial cells were found to express IFN-gamma receptors constitutively. Exposure to the ligand resulted in STAT 1 phosphorylation and production of nanogram amounts of IP-10, I-TAC, and MIG. When HCE were stimulated with combinations of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma, or IL-1alpha and IFN-gamma, the levels of IP-10 and I-TAC secreted were > 150-fold higher than that produced following exposure to a single cytokine. In contrast, MIG protein synthesis was not enhanced upon stimulation with cytokine combinations. The abundant production of ELR(-)alpha -chemokines following appropriate stimulation suggests that HCE may play an important role in the recruitment of effector cells such as activated T-lymphocytes to inflamed corneal tissue. The data also indicate that the synthesis of IP-10, I-TAC, and MIG are differentially regulated in HCE.
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- Karla A McInnis
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA
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Fernandez S, Gillgrass A, Kaushic C. Differential Responses of Murine Vaginal and Uterine Epithelial Cells Prior to and Following Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 (HSV-2) Infection. Am J Reprod Immunol 2007; 57:367-77. [PMID: 17430501 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2007.00482.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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PROBLEM This study was undertaken to evaluate the susceptibility of upper and lower reproductive tract epithelial cells (ECs) to herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection and examine their cytokine secretion patterns prior to and following infection. METHOD OF STUDY Primary EC cultures, grown from murine vaginal and uterine tissue, were inoculated with HSV-2. Viral shedding was measured in apical and basolateral compartments. Multi-analyte bead-based immunoassays run on Luminex, were used to analyse cytokine profiles. RESULTS Both vaginal and uterine ECs became productively infected with HSV-2, ex-vivo. Uterine ECs displayed varying degrees of infection, dependent on transepithelial resistance of the monolayers. Co-culturing stromal cells did not significantly change levels of viral shedding from ECs. Uterine ECs and epithelial-stromal co-cultures constitutively secreted interleukin (IL)-1alpha, IL-6, mouse homologue of human IL-8 (KC) and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), while vaginal epithelial-stromal co-cultures secreted granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and KC. Following exposure to HSV-2, IL-6 and MCP-1 levels decreased in uterine EC cultures. CONCLUSIONS This data shows that ECs from the upper and lower reproductive tract have different cytokine secretion profiles and respond differentially to infection. HSV-2 may be able to suppress epithelial cytokine secretion as a strategy to evade host immune system.
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- Sherie Fernandez
- Center For Gene Therapeutics, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote Center for Learning and Discovery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Li H, Zhang J, Kumar A, Zheng M, Atherton SS, Yu FSX. Herpes simplex virus 1 infection induces the expression of proinflammatory cytokines, interferons and TLR7 in human corneal epithelial cells. Immunology 2006; 117:167-76. [PMID: 16423052 PMCID: PMC1782219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2005.02275.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Herpetic epithelial and stromal keratitis is a sight-threatening ocular infection. To study the role of the epithelium in the innate response to herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infection of the cornea, we used a telomerase-immortalized human corneal epithelial cell (HCEC) line, HUCL, and primary HCECs as a model and infected the cells with HSV-1 (KOS strain). HSV-1 infection of HCECs resulted in a two-phase activation of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB), JNK and p38, with the first peak at 1-4 hr and a second peak at 8 hr. Concomitant with the first peak of activation, transcriptional expression of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interferon (IFN)-beta was rapidly induced in HSV-1-infected cells. HSV-1 infection also induced the production of IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-alpha in both HUCL cells and primary HCECs. Coincident with the second phase of NF-kappaB activation in HSV-1-infected HCECs, the expression of Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) was induced, whereas the level of TLR3 was greatly down-regulated. Thus, in response to HSV-1 infection, HCECs produce proinflammatory cytokines, leading to infiltration, and IFNs to enhance the antiviral activity in the cornea, probably through sequential activation of TLRs.
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- Hui Li
- The Kresge Eye Institute/Department of Ophthalmology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Oshima T, Sonoda KH, Tsutsumi-Miyahara C, Qiao H, Hisatomi T, Nakao S, Hamano S, Egashira K, Charo IF, Ishibashi T. Analysis of corneal inflammation induced by cauterisation in CCR2 and MCP-1 knockout mice. Br J Ophthalmol 2006; 90:218-22. [PMID: 16424537 PMCID: PMC1860158 DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2005.077875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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AIM To elucidate the role of CCR2/MCP-1 in corneal inflammation. METHODS A cauterisation induced corneal inflammation model was used. The corneas were cauterised with silver nitrate in CCR2 knockout (KO) mice, MCP-1 KO mice, and control mice. Clinical signs such as corneal oedema and opacity were examined 96 hours after cauterisation and the phenotypes of the cells infiltrating the cornea were analysed by flow cytometry. Corneal inflammation in neutrophil depleted mice was also analysed. RESULTS After cauterisation both CCR2 KO and MCP-1 KO mice showed the same levels of corneal oedema and opacity as control mice. Flow cytometry revealed that in control mice most of the infiltrating cells were neutrophils and macrophages, whereas in both CCR2 KO mice and MCP-1 KO mice, the number of macrophages infiltrating the cornea were markedly reduced. However, prominent infiltrates of neutrophils were still observed in the cornea in CCR2 KO mice and MCP-1 KO mice. The depletion of neutrophils significantly reduced the oedema and opacity induced in the cornea by cauterisation. CONCLUSION The CCR2 and MCP-1 molecules are not essential for cauterisation induced corneal inflammation. Neutrophils, rather than migrated macrophages, are the final effector cells involved in inducing inflammation in this model.
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- T Oshima
- Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, Japan
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Chodosh J. Human adenovirus type 37 and the BALB/c mouse: progress toward a restricted adenovirus keratitis model (an American Ophthalmological Society thesis). TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2006; 104:346-65. [PMID: 17471351 PMCID: PMC1809897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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PURPOSE To establish a mouse model of adenovirus keratitis in order to study innate immune mechanisms in the adenovirus-infected cornea. METHODS Balb/c 3T3 fibroblasts were inoculated with human adenovirus (HAdV) serotypes 8, 19, or 37 and observed for cytopathic effect. Viral growth titers were performed, and apoptosis was measured by TUNEL assay. Viral and host cytokine gene expression was assessed by RT-PCR in cultured Balb/c 3T3 fibroblasts and in the corneas of virus-injected Balb/c mice. Western blot analysis was performed to detect cell signaling in the virus-infected cornea. RESULTS Only HAdV37 induced cytopathic effect in mouse cells. Viral gene expression was limited, and viral replication was not detected. Apoptotic cell death in HAdV37-infected Balb/c cells was evident 48 and 72 hours postinfection (P < .01). MCP-1, IL-6, KC, and IP-10 mRNA levels were increased maximally by 8.4, 9.6, 10.5, and 20.0-fold, respectively, at 30 to 90 minutes after HAdV37 infection. Similar cytokine elevations were observed in the corneas of Balb/c mice 4 hours after stromal injection of HAdV37, when viral gene expression for the viral capsid protein IIIa was not detected. Western blot showed increased phosphorylation of ERK1/2 at 4 and 24 hours after corneal infection. CONCLUSIONS Despite limited viral gene expression, HAdV37 infection of Balb/c 3T3 fibroblasts results in increased proinflammatory gene expression. A similar pattern of cytokine expression in the corneas of HAdV37-infected Balb/c mice suggests the mouse adenoviral keratitis model may be useful for the study of early innate immune responses in the adenovirus-infected corneal stroma.
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MESH Headings
- Adenoviridae Infections/metabolism
- Adenoviridae Infections/virology
- Adenoviruses, Human/physiology
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- BALB 3T3 Cells/pathology
- BALB 3T3 Cells/virology
- Blotting, Western
- Chemokine CCL2/genetics
- Chemokine CXCL1
- Chemokine CXCL10
- Chemokines, CXC/genetics
- Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral
- Disease Models, Animal
- Eye Infections, Viral/metabolism
- Eye Infections, Viral/virology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral/physiology
- In Situ Nick-End Labeling
- Interleukin-6/genetics
- Keratitis/metabolism
- Keratitis/virology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1/metabolism
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3/metabolism
- Phosphorylation
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Virus Replication
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- James Chodosh
- Molecular Pathogenesis of Eye Infection Research Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Departments of Ophthalmology, Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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Rodríguez-Martínez S, Cancino-Díaz ME, Jiménez-Zamudio L, García-Latorre E, Cancino-Díaz JC. TLRs and NODs mRNA expression pattern in healthy mouse eye. Br J Ophthalmol 2005; 89:904-10. [PMID: 15965176 PMCID: PMC1772715 DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2004.056218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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AIMS To look for TLR and NOD mRNA expression in the healthy eye and in other immune privileged and non-immune privileged mouse organs. METHODS Semiquantitative RT-PCR was performed to look for TLR1-9 and NOD1 and NOD2 mRNA expressions in the whole eye, in the anterior (AP) and posterior (PP) portions of the eye, in corneal fibroblasts (CF) and in ovary, brain, testis, heart, lung, and spleen. RESULTS All the TLR mRNAs were expressed in the whole eye of Balb/c mice. NIH and C57BL/6 did not express TLR9 and TLR8, respectively. NIH expressed higher levels of TLR1, 2, 3, and 6 than the other strains. C57BL/6 expressed the lowest levels of all TLRs. TLR9, 5, and 4 were the less expressed in all strains. All TLRs were expressed in Balb/c PP and TLR1 was not expressed in AP. In NIH and Balb/c CF the majority of TLRs were overexpressed with LPS. In testis, expression of most TLRs was absent. Non-immune privileged organs expressed most of the TLRs. All the organs expressed NOD1 and NOD2. In PP NOD2 was not expressed. CONCLUSION TLRs and NODs are expressed in the eye, and could have an important role in the innate immunity.
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- S Rodríguez-Martínez
- Laboratorio de Microbiología General, Departamento de Microbiología de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Carpio y Plan de Ayala, México, México
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Gamba G, Cavalieri H, Courreges MC, Massouh EJ, Benencia F. Early inhibition of nitric oxide production increases HSV-1 intranasal infection. J Med Virol 2004; 73:313-22. [PMID: 15122810 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Here, we studied the role of nitric oxide (NO) production during the first steps of the respiratory infection of BALB/c mice with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), strain F. Nitric oxide synthase II (NOS-II) mRNA and protein were detected by reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and dot blot, respectively in samples of lungs and turbinates early post-infection (p.i.). Immunohistochemical analysis revealed pulmonar macrophages and PMN expressing NOS-II in the lungs of infected animals. Animals intranasally treated with aminoguanidine (AG), a NOS inhibitor, during the first steps of infection, showed a dose-dependent increase in pneumonitis compared to controls. Viral titres in turbinates, lungs, and brains were higher in AG treated mice. Finally, histopathology studies revealed a stronger inflammation in eyes, and lungs of these animals. Taken together, these results suggest a role of NO in controlling primary HSV intranasal infection.
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- Gisela Gamba
- Laboratory of Immunochemistry, Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Shirane J, Nakayama T, Nagakubo D, Izawa D, Hieshima K, Shimomura Y, Yoshie O. Corneal epithelial cells and stromal keratocytes efficently produce CC chemokine-ligand 20 (CCL20) and attract cells expressing its receptor CCR6 in mouse herpetic stromal keratitis. Curr Eye Res 2004; 28:297-306. [PMID: 15287366 DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.28.5.297.28682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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PURPOSE CC chemokine-ligand 20 (CCL20) is known to be selectively expressed by surface-lining mucosal epithelial cells and skin epidermal keratinocytes and to attract cells such as immature dendritic cells and effector T cells via CCR6. This study evaluated the ability of corneal epithelial cells and stromal keratocytes to produce CCL20 in vitro and in vivo. METHODS Human corneal epithelial cells (HCE) and corneal keratocytes (HCK) were treated without or with various cytokines and expression of CCL20 mRNA and secreion of its protein were evaluated by RT-PCR and ELISA. Induction of CCL20 mRNA in HCE and HCK was also examined upon in vitro infection with HSV-1. Using a mouse model of herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK), induction of CCL20 expression and accumulation of cells expressing CCR6 were evaluated by RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry. RESULTS Not only corneal epithelial cells but also stromal keratocytes efficiently expressed CCL20 mRNA and protein upon stimulation with IL-1beta and TNF-alpha. In vitro infection with HSV-1 also induced CCL20 mRNA in both types of cells. In a mouse herpetic stromal keratitis model, prominent accumulation of CCL20 and CCR6 mRNA was revealed in HSV-1-infected corneas. Furthermore, immunohistochemistry demonstrated production of CCL20 by corneal epithelial cells as well as stromal keratocytes and stromal infiltration of DEC205+ dendritic cells, CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells. Double staining revealed that CCR6-expressing cells were mostly MHC class II+ dendritic cells. CONCLUSIONS Not only epithelial cells but also stromal keratocytes are efficient producers of CCL20 in the cornea and recruit CCR6-expressing cells such as dendritic cells into inflamed cornea.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/physiology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/physiology
- Cell Movement
- Chemokine CCL20
- Chemokines, CC/genetics
- Chemokines, CC/metabolism
- Corneal Stroma/drug effects
- Corneal Stroma/metabolism
- Corneal Stroma/virology
- Dendritic Cells/physiology
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Epithelium, Corneal/drug effects
- Epithelium, Corneal/metabolism
- Epithelium, Corneal/virology
- Fibroblasts/drug effects
- Fibroblasts/metabolism
- Fibroblasts/virology
- Herpesvirus 1, Human/physiology
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Interleukin-1/pharmacology
- Keratitis, Herpetic/metabolism
- Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins/genetics
- Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins/metabolism
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptors, CCR6
- Receptors, Chemokine/genetics
- Receptors, Chemokine/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/pharmacology
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- Jumi Shirane
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan
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The ocular surface is constantly exposed to a wide array of microorganisms. The ability of the outer ocular system to recognize pathogens as foreign and eliminate them is critical to retain corneal transparency, hence preservation of sight. Therefore, a combination of mechanical, anatomical, and immunological defense mechanisms has evolved to protect the outer eye. These host defense mechanisms are classified as either a native, nonspecific defense or a specifically acquired immunological defense requiring previous exposure to an antigen and the development of specific immunity. Sight-threatening immunopathology with autologous cell damage also can take place after these reactions. This article discusses the innate and acquired corneal elements of the immune defense at the ocular surface. The relative roles of the various factors contributing to prevention of eye infection remain to be fully defined.
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- E K Akpek
- The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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Natarajan K, Rajala MS, Chodosh J. Corneal IL-8 expression following adenovirus infection is mediated by c-Src activation in human corneal fibroblasts. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:6234-43. [PMID: 12794155 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.12.6234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Emerging evidence indicates that intracellular signaling cascades mediate entry of pathogenic adenoviruses into target host cells as well as some of the undesirable inflammatory responses to adenoviral gene vectors. We found that Ad19 infection of cultured human corneal fibroblasts induced IL-8 gene transcription independently of IL-1beta, TNF-alpha, and viral gene expression, suggesting that intracellular signaling events might mediate early inflammatory events in adenovirus keratitis. Heat but not UV light inactivation of the virus abrogated the effect of infection on IL-8 mRNA and protein levels, consistent with a viral binding-mediated mechanism. The tyrosine kinase inhibitor herbimycin blocked Ad19-induced IL-8 expression. Western blot analysis revealed tyrosine phosphorylation of the functionally related kinases c-Src and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 in corneal fibroblasts within 15 min after infection. Respective inhibitors of these kinases, PP2 and PD98059, also blocked Ad19-induced IL-8 mRNA and protein expression. Application of inhibitors to Src and ERK kinase assays suggested an upstream relationship of c-Src to ERK. Finally, DNA microarray studies performed 1 h after Ad19 or mock infection of corneal fibroblasts in the presence or absence of the Src-specific inhibitor PP2 confirmed a relationship between c-Src and IL-8 expression in Ad19-infected corneal cells. c-Src may act as a global regulator of early proinflammatory host responses to Ad19 infection of the human cornea.
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- Kanchana Natarajan
- Department of Ophthalmology, The Molecular Pathogenesis of Eye Infection Research Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
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Natarajan K, Chodosh J, Kennedy R. Innate immunity in th e cornea: a putative role for keratocytes in the chemokine response to viral infection of the human corneal stroma. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2003; 506:745-51. [PMID: 12613987 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0717-8_105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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Existing evidence suggests that chemokine expression by virus-infected cells is a common response to viral infection. By such a mechanism, non-immunologic cells may participate in the generation of an early innate immune response to infection. In the absence of classic immunologic cells in the corneal stroma, keratocytes may play a similar role in the corneal responses to viral infection.
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- Kanchana Natarajan
- Department of Ophthalmology, Molecular Pathogenesis of Eye Infection Research Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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Shimmura S, Igarashi R, Yaguchi H, Ohashi Y, Shimazaki J, Tsubota K. Lecithin-bound superoxide dismutase in the treatment of noninfectious corneal ulcers. Am J Ophthalmol 2003; 135:613-9. [PMID: 12719067 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9394(02)02151-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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PURPOSE To evaluate the effects of a lipophilic analog of superoxide dismutase in the treatment of persistent epithelial defects of the cornea. DESIGN Interventional case series. METHODS Nineteen eyes of 19 patients with noninfectious corneal ulcers were enrolled. Patient profiles consisted of seven cases with Mooren-type peripheral ulcers, three cases with chemical or thermal burns, two cases with vernal keratoconjunctivitis, four cases with cicatricial keratoconjunctivitis, and three cases with sterile ulcers after corneal surgery. Patients consisted of 11 men and 8 women, with a mean age of 51.5 +/- 17.9 years (range, 14-77). Only patients who did not respond to conventional therapy were recruited for the study. Lecithinated superoxide dismutase was applied for 2 weeks, and sketches and/or fluorescein slit micrographs were recorded before and at the end of the study. The main outcome measure was decrease in ulcer size. RESULTS As a group, the average ulcer size relative to the entire cornea decreased from 18.2 +/- 15.1% to 10.0 +/- 15.0% after 2 weeks (P <.05). A dramatic effect (>90% decrease in ulcer size) was observed in eight cases (100% in six cases), whereas no apparent change was found (<30% decrease in ulcer size) in five cases. The presence of polymorphonucleocytes within the ulcerated tissue was confirmed by brush cytology. CONCLUSION Lecinthinated superoxide dismutase was effective in decreasing persistent epithelial defect size in a subset of patients with sterile corneal ulcers refractive to conventional therapy. A large-scale clinical investigation is merited.
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Benencia F, Gamba G, Cavalieri H, Courreges MC, Benedetti R, Villamil SM, Massouh EJ. Nitric oxide and HSV vaginal infection in BALB/c mice. Virology 2003; 309:75-84. [PMID: 12726728 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6822(02)00057-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Here we study the role of nitric oxide in the vaginal infection of Balb/c mice with herpes simplex virus type 2. Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) mRNA was detected by RT-PCR in vaginal tissue and inguinal lymph nodes early postinfection. iNOS was also found to be activated in cells recovered from vaginal washings of infected animals. Animals treated with aminoguanidine (AG), an iNOS inhibitor, showed a dose-dependent increase in vaginal pathology after viral infection compared to controls. Viral titers in vaginal washings and vaginas were higher in AG-treated mice. Treated animals presented higher PMN counts in vaginal washings compared to controls. Histopathology studies revealed a profound inflammatory exudate in vaginal tissue of treated animals. Finally, RT-PCR analysis showed increased expression of the chemokines MIP-2 and RANTES in vaginal tissue and inguinal lymph nodes of these animals.
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- Fabián Benencia
- Laboratory of Immunochemistry, Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Pabellón II, Piso 4, Ciudad Universitaria, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Maertzdorf J, Osterhaus ADME, Verjans GMGM. IL-17 expression in human herpetic stromal keratitis: modulatory effects on chemokine production by corneal fibroblasts. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:5897-903. [PMID: 12421973 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.10.5897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK) is an immunopathologic disease triggered by infection of the cornea with HSV. Key events in HSK involve the interaction between cornea-infiltrating inflammatory cells and resident cells. This interaction, in which macrophages, producing IL-1 and TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma-producing Th1 cells play a crucial role, results in the local secretion of immune-modulatory factors and a major influx of neutrophils causing corneal lesions and blindness. The Th1-derived cytokine IL-17 has been shown to play an important role in several inflammatory diseases characterized by a massive infiltration of neutrophils into inflamed tissue. Here we show that IL-17 is expressed in corneas from patients with HSK and that the IL-17R is constitutively expressed by human corneal fibroblasts (HCF). IL-17 exhibited a strong synergistic effect with TNF-alpha on the induction of IL-6 and IL-8 secretion by cultured HCF. Secreted IL-8 in these cultures had a strong chemotactic effect on neutrophils. IL-17 also enhanced TNF-alpha- and IFN-gamma-induced secretion of macrophage-inflammatory proteins 1alpha and 3alpha, while inhibiting the induced secretion of RANTES. Furthermore, considerable levels of IFN-gamma-inducible protein 10 and matrix metalloproteinase 1 were measured in stimulated HCF cultures, while the constitutive secretion of monocyte chemotactic protein 1 remained unaffected. The data presented suggest that IL-17 may play an important role in the induction and/or perpetuation of the immunopathologic processes in human HSK by modulating the secretion of proinflammatory and neutrophil chemotactic factors by corneal resident fibroblasts.
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- Jeroen Maertzdorf
- Institute of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Dr. Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Parcells MS, Lin SF, Dienglewicz RL, Majerciak V, Robinson DR, Chen HC, Wu Z, Dubyak GR, Brunovskis P, Hunt HD, Lee LF, Kung HJ. Marek's disease virus (MDV) encodes an interleukin-8 homolog (vIL-8): characterization of the vIL-8 protein and a vIL-8 deletion mutant MDV. J Virol 2001; 75:5159-73. [PMID: 11333897 PMCID: PMC114921 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.11.5159-5173.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Chemokines induce chemotaxis, cell migration, and inflammatory responses. We report the identification of an interleukin-8 (IL-8) homolog, termed vIL-8, encoded within the genome of Marek's disease virus (MDV). The 134-amino-acid vIL-8 shares closest homology to mammalian and avian IL-8, molecules representing the prototype CXC chemokine. The gene for vIL-8 consists of three exons which map to the BamHI-L fragment within the repeats flanking the unique long region of the MDV genome. A 0.7-kb transcript encoding vIL-8 was detected in an n-butyrate-treated, MDV-transformed T-lymphoblastoid cell line, MSB-1. This induction is essentially abolished by cycloheximide and herpesvirus DNA polymerase inhibitor phosphonoacetate, indicating that vIL-8 is expressed with true late (gamma2) kinetics. Baculovirus-expressed vIL-8 was found to be secreted into the medium and shown to be functional as a chemoattractant for chicken peripheral blood mononuclear cells but not for heterophils. To characterize the function of vIL-8 with respect to MDV infection in vivo, a recombinant MDV was constructed with a deletion of all three exons and a soluble-modified green fluorescent protein (smGFP) expression cassette inserted at the site of deletion. In two in vivo experiments, the vIL-8 deletion mutant (RB1BvIL-8DeltasmGFP) showed a decreased level of lytic infection in comparison to its parent virus, an equal-passage-level parent virus, and to another recombinant MDV containing the insertion of a GFP expression cassette at the nonessential US2 gene. RB1BvIL-8DeltasmGFP retained oncogenicity, albeit at a greatly reduced level. Nonetheless, we have been able to establish a lymphoblastoid cell line from an RB1BvIL-8DeltasmGFP-induced ovarian lymphoma (MDCC-UA20) and verify the presence of a latent MDV genome lacking vIL-8. Taken together, these data describe the identification and characterization of a chemokine homolog encoded within the MDV genome that is dispensable for transformation but may affect the level of MDV in vivo lytic infection.
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- M S Parcells
- Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, Department of Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA.
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Chang E, Galle L, Maggs D, Estes DM, Mitchell WJ. Pathogenesis of herpes simplex virus type 1-induced corneal inflammation in perforin-deficient mice. J Virol 2000; 74:11832-40. [PMID: 11090183 PMCID: PMC112466 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.24.11832-11840.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK) is an inflammatory disease of the cornea that often results in blindness. It is mediated by a host immune response which is triggered by herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection. Immune effector mechanisms are hypothesized to be important in disease development. We investigated, in a mouse model, whether perforin-dependent cytotoxicity is an important effector mechanism in the production of HSK. Wild-type (C57BL/6) and perforin-deficient (PKO) mice were infected intracorneally with HSV-1 strain F. Clinical disease and histologic lesions of the cornea at 23 days postinfection (p.i.) were significantly less severe in HSV-1-infected PKO mice than in infected wild-type mice. mRNA for the chemokine macrophage inflammatory protein 1alpha (MIP-1alpha) was detected by reverse transcription-PCR in the corneas of infected wild-type mice but not in the corneas of infected PKO mice at 23 days p.i. Adoptive transfer of wild-type HSV-1 immune T-cell-enriched splenocytes into HSV-1-infected PKO mice restored the disease phenotype which was seen in infected wild-type mice. In contrast, mice carrying a null-function mutation in the Fas ligand, which is involved in an alternative cytotoxic mechanism, developed clinical disease and histologic lesions which were comparable to those in wild-type mice. Viral clearance from the eyes of PKO mice was not impaired. There was no significant difference between the infectious viral titers isolated from the eyes of PKO and wild-type mice. Our findings show that perforin is important in the pathogenesis of HSK.
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- E Chang
- Department of Molecular Microbiology-Immunology, School of Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Kim YC, Bang D, Lee S, Lee KH. The effect of herpesvirus infection on the expression of cell adhesion molecules on cultured human dermal microvascular endothelial cells. J Dermatol Sci 2000; 24:38-47. [PMID: 10960777 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-1811(00)00080-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Cell-mediated immune response to herpes simplex virus (HSV) may be important in the pathogenesis of herpes keratitis, erythema multiforme or Behcet's disease. We examined whether herpesvirus infection regulates the expression of cell adhesion molecules on cultured human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HDMEC) and the regulation of T-lymphocytes binding to HDMEC. The expression of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM-1), or E-selectin on HDMEC increased significantly after treatment with HSV-1, HSV-2, or measles virus on HDMEC. Anti-IL-1 alpha antibody or anti-TNF alpha antibody partially inhibited the expression of ICAM-1, VCAM-1, or E-selectin on HDMEC. The binding of T-lymphocytes to HDMEC increased significantly after the treatment of HSV-1 or measles virus on HDMEC. The binding of T-lymphocytes to HDMEC was significantly inhibited after 16 h of incubation following treatment with anti-ICAM-1 antibody, anti-IL-1 alpha antibody or anti-TNF alpha antibody to HDMEC. These study results suggest that HSV induces the increased expression of ICAM-1, or induction of VCAM-1 and E-selectin on HDMEC and that among these adhesion molecules, the expression of ICAM-1 on HDMEC mainly regulates the binding of T-lymphocytes to HDMEC. The data also suggest that IL-1 alpha or TNF alpha which was produced by HSV infected HDMEC may be related to these events.
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- Y C Kim
- Department of Dermatology, Dankook University, Cheonan, South Korea
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Ghiasi H, Hofman FM, Cai S, Perng GC, Nesburn AB, Wechsler SL. Vaccination with different HSV-1 glycoproteins induces different patterns of ocular cytokine responses following HSV-1 challenge of vaccinated mice. Vaccine 1999; 17:2576-82. [PMID: 10418905 DOI: 10.1016/s0264-410x(99)00056-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We previously reported that vaccination of BALB/c mice with different baculovirus expressed HSV-1 glycoproteins induced varying degrees of protection against HSV-1 ocular challenge, ranging from complete protection to no protection, to exacerbation of eye disease. To correlate specific local immune responses with protection and exacerbation of corneal scarring, we examined immune cell infiltrates in the cornea after ocular HSV-1 challenge of vaccinated mice. Mice were vaccinated with gD, which completely protects against corneal scarring, gG, which produces no protection against corneal scarring, or gK, which exacerbates corneal scarring. Cryostat sections of cornea were taken at different times after challenge and examined for infiltrating cells containing IL-2, IL-4, IFN-gamma, IL-6, or TNF-alpha. No corneal infiltrates were seen before challenge or 1 day after ocular challenge in any groups. By days 3-7, many cells containing IL-4 and IFN-gamma, but few cells containing IL-2, had infiltrated into the corneas of gG or mock vaccinated mice. At the same times, many cells containing IL-2, but few cells containing IL-4 or IFN-gamma, were seen in the corneas of gD vaccinated mice. In contrast, the corneas of mice vaccinated with gK contained large amounts of IL-2, IFN-gamma, and IL-4. Our results suggest that: (1) corneas from gD vaccinated mice had no corneal disease and developed a response highly biased toward IL-2 responses; (2) corneas from gG or mock vaccinated eyes had significant corneal disease and developed a mostly IL-4 and IFN-gamma cytokine response; and (3) corneas from gK vaccinated mice had exacerbated corneal disease and developed strong IL-2, IL-4 and IFN-gamma cytokine responses.
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- H Ghiasi
- Ophthalmology Research, Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, CSMC, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
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Chodosh J, Nordquist RE, Kennedy RC. Anatomy of mammalian conjunctival lymphoepithelium. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1998; 438:557-65. [PMID: 9634937 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5359-5_79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Ocular surface immune mechanisms are subservient to the fine function of the eye. A clear cornea with a smooth, well-lubricated facade is prerequisite to lucid vision. Hence, corneal inflammation and post-inflammatory scarring are intolerable, and the cornea contains a minimum of lymphoid elements. Although conjunctival dysfunction and consequent tear film deficiency can malign the corneal surface, conjunctival inflammation is tolerated to a considerable degree. In contrast to the human cornea, human conjunctiva contains an abundance of lymphoid tissue. Certain aspects of human conjunctival immunology elicit little debate. Langerhans cells are abundant in conjunctival epithelium. Isolated CD8+ suppressor/cytotoxic T cells predominate in conjunctival epithelium, while T cells in the substantia propria distribute equally between CD4+ T helper cells and CD8+ cells. Yet the presence of plasma cells in human conjunctiva, the expression of secretory component by human conjunctival epithelium, and the function of human conjunctival lymphoid follicles are in dispute. Confusion may derive in part from the use of inappropriate animal models; rodent conjunctiva does not appear to be a worthy facsimile for human conjunctiva. Discrepancies between different human studies likely result from variance in subject age, biopsy site and extent, histologic or histochemical technique, and perhaps the degree of inflammation present at the time of biopsy. Careful immunohistochemical and in situ molecular assays on well-defined loci within the conjunctiva of comparable human subjects may resolve such questions in the future. Organized mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue is rigorously defined as mucosal lymphoid follicles with an ultrastructurally distinct overlying lymphoepithelium. Based on available evidence, the epithelium overlying mammalian conjunctival lymphoid follicles does not contain distinct M cells. Whether zonal differences in morphology reflect real differences in the capacity to sample tear film antigens for presentation to the mucosal immune system remains to be established.
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- J Chodosh
- Department of Ophthalmology, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma City, USA
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Tran MT, Dean DA, Lausch RN, Oakes JE. Membranes of herpes simplex virus type-1-infected human corneal epithelial cells are not permeabilized to macromolecules and therefore do not release IL-1alpha. Virology 1998; 244:74-8. [PMID: 9581780 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1998.9084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nanogram amounts of the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-1alpha (IL-1alpha) were detected in uninfected cultures of human corneal epithelial cells (HCEC). Although HSV-1 replicated >10(4)-fold in these cells and caused extensive cytopathic effects, virus infection was not accompanied by significant extracellular release of IL-1alpha. Additional studies showed that release of radiolabeled cytosolic proteins from virus-infected HCEC was no greater than that released by mock-infected cells. These findings indicate that HSV-1 infection of HCEC does not result in IL-1alpha release because newly formed virus progeny can escape infected cells without disrupting cell membranes.
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- M T Tran
- Department of Microbiology/Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36688, USA
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Bian ZM, Elner VM, Lukacs NW, Strieter RM, Kunkel SL, Elner SG. Glycated human serum albumin induces IL-8 and MCP-1 gene expression in human corneal keratocytes. Curr Eye Res 1998; 17:65-72. [PMID: 9472473 DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.17.1.65.5253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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PURPOSE The glycated human serum albumin (GHSA) has been demonstrated as effective chemokine inducer in human retinal pigment epithelial (hRPE) cells. Since little is known concerning endogenous chemokines induced by GHSA in corneal keratocytes, we investigated IL-8 and MCP-1 gene expression in human corneal keratocytes (HCK) as compared to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), a model for vascular endothelial cells, after stimulation by GHSA. METHODS The HCK and HUVEC were incubated with GHSA, IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha. Secretion of IL-8 and MCP-1 was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The total RNA was extracted from the corresponding cells and the mRNA levels were detected by Northern blot analysis. RESULTS GHSA at 500 micrograms/ml concentration induced a significant increase in keratocyte IL-8 and MCP-1 protein secretion over the 24 h time course. The corresponding IL-8 mRNA levels reached a peak by 4 hr, while the MCP-1 mRNA increased steadily over this time period. The concentrations of GHSA for half-maximal stimulation of keratocyte IL-8 and MCP-1 secretion were 1,863 and 793 micrograms/ml, respectively. The levels of GHSA (500 micrograms/ml)-induced keratocyte IL-8 and MCP-1 expression were similar to that induced by IL-1 beta (0.02 ng/ml) and TNF-alpha (2.0 ng/ml). In contrast, the control HUVEC exposed to GHSA did not show sustained IL-8 and MCP-1 gene expression and protein secretion. CONCLUSIONS This differential stimulation of keratocytes, not HUVEC, suggests that GHSA may be a plasma-borne inducer of chemokines acting on resident corneal cells at sites of inflammation where plasma leakage occurs.
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- Z M Bian
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48105, USA
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Craigen JL, Yong KL, Jordan NJ, MacCormac LP, Westwick J, Akbar AN, Grundy JE. Human cytomegalovirus infection up-regulates interleukin-8 gene expression and stimulates neutrophil transendothelial migration. Immunology 1997; 92:138-45. [PMID: 9370936 PMCID: PMC1363993 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1997.00310.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Virus-induced alterations in the cellular expression of chemokines may be important in directing the migration of specific leucocyte subsets to sites of infection, thereby playing a pivotal role in viral pathogenesis. We show here that cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection of human fibroblasts resulted in significantly increased expression of the C-X-C or alpha-chemokine interleukin-8 (IL-8), at both the mRNA and protein levels. Increased IL-8 production was seen following infection with the high passage laboratory CMV strains AD169, Towne, or Davis, as well as the low passage clinical CMV isolates Toledo or C1F. The increase in IL-8 production had functional consequences, as demonstrated by the ability of supernatants from CMV-infected fibroblasts to significantly enhance neutrophil transendothelial migration. The latter was independent of alterations in adhesion molecule expression on the endothelial cells, and was abrogated by neutralizing antibodies specific for IL-8. Direct infection of endothelium with the endothelial cell-tropic CMV strain C1FE, also resulted in enhanced neutrophil transendothelial migration. Neutrophils play an important role in the dissemination of CMV throughout the body, and thus CMV-induced neutrophil recruitment would be expected to enhance CMV dissemination. Increased production of chemokines in response to CMV infection could also disrupt the fine balance between a beneficial and a destructive immune response, thereby potentially contributing to pathology.
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- J L Craigen
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK
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