PURPOSE: Influenza viruses infect airway epithelial cells, causing respiratory distress. Immune defense is maintained by chemokine/cytokine secretions from airway epithelial cells. While moderate inflammatory response protects from ill effects, hyper-inflammatory response promotes the pathogenesis. High circulating levels of vitamin D are known to mitigate effects of infectious diseases, including respiratory infectious diseases. The question whether and how vitamin D treatment pre-/post-viral exposure modulates inflammatory response is not clear. The present study was undertaken to understand autophagy/apoptosis balance and chemokine/cytokine response to influenza A (H1N1) infection by pre- and post-1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25[OH]2 D3)[calcitriol] treatment of human lung A549 epithelial cells. METHODS: Influenza A (H1N1) virus was propagated in A549 cell line, titrated using hemagglutination assay, and was used to assess effect of calcitriol. After confirming that 100 nM of calcitriol fails to clear virus, A549 cells were either pre-treated (16 h) with 100 nM or post-treated with 30 nM of 1,25[OH]2 D3 of virus inoculation (1 h). Cells after incubation at 37 °C under 5 % CO2 for 48 h were collected and subjected to RNA and protein extraction. Measurements of viability, influenza M protein, and molecular parameters of cell death and inflammatory response were performed. RESULTS: We report that treatment of these cells with 100/30 nM of 1,25[OH]2 D3 prior to/or post-H1N1 exposure does not affect viral clearance but significantly reduces autophagy and restores increased apoptosis seen on H1N1 infection back to its constitutive level. However, it significantly decreases the levels of H1N1-induced TNF-α (tumor necrosis factor-alpha), IFN-β (interferon-beta), and IFN-stimulated gene-15 (ISG15). 1,25[OH]2 D3 treatment prior to/or post-H1N1 infection significantly down-regulates IL-8 as well as IL-6 RNA levels. These results demonstrate that calcitriol treatment suppresses the H1N1-induced transcription of the chemokines RANTES and IL-8 in epithelial cells. CONCLUSION: The findings provide support for the initiation of vitamin D supplementation program to VDD populations in reducing the severity of influenza.
PURPOSE: Influenza viruses infect airway epithelial cells, causing respiratory distress. Immune defense is maintained by chemokine/cytokine secretions from airway epithelial cells. While moderate inflammatory response protects from ill effects, hyper-inflammatory response promotes the pathogenesis. High circulating levels of vitamin D are known to mitigate effects of infectious diseases, including respiratory infectious diseases. The question whether and how vitamin D treatment pre-/post-viral exposure modulates inflammatory response is not clear. The present study was undertaken to understand autophagy/apoptosis balance and chemokine/cytokine response to influenza A (H1N1) infection by pre- and post-1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25[OH]2 D3)[calcitriol] treatment of human lung A549 epithelial cells. METHODS: Influenza A (H1N1) virus was propagated in A549 cell line, titrated using hemagglutination assay, and was used to assess effect of calcitriol. After confirming that 100 nM of calcitriol fails to clear virus, A549 cells were either pre-treated (16 h) with 100 nM or post-treated with 30 nM of 1,25[OH]2 D3 of virus inoculation (1 h). Cells after incubation at 37 °C under 5 % CO2 for 48 h were collected and subjected to RNA and protein extraction. Measurements of viability, influenza M protein, and molecular parameters of cell death and inflammatory response were performed. RESULTS: We report that treatment of these cells with 100/30 nM of 1,25[OH]2 D3 prior to/or post-H1N1 exposure does not affect viral clearance but significantly reduces autophagy and restores increased apoptosis seen on H1N1infection back to its constitutive level. However, it significantly decreases the levels of H1N1-induced TNF-α (tumor necrosis factor-alpha), IFN-β (interferon-beta), and IFN-stimulated gene-15 (ISG15). 1,25[OH]2 D3 treatment prior to/or post-H1N1 infection significantly down-regulates IL-8 as well as IL-6 RNA levels. These results demonstrate that calcitriol treatment suppresses the H1N1-induced transcription of the chemokines RANTES and IL-8 in epithelial cells. CONCLUSION: The findings provide support for the initiation of vitamin D supplementation program to VDD populations in reducing the severity of influenza.
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