Eugene H Chang1, Nima Pouladi2, Stefano Guerra3, Jana Jandova4, Alexander Kim4, Haiquan Li5, Jianrong Li2, Wayne Morgan3, Debra A Stern3, Amanda L Willis4, Yves A Lussier2, Fernando D Martinez3. 1. Department of Otolaryngology, Tucson, Ariz; College of Medicine, Tucson, Ariz; Asthma/Airway Disease Research Center, Tucson, Ariz; University of Arizona BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. Electronic address: echang@oto.arizona.edu. 2. Department of Biomedical Informatics, the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah. 3. College of Medicine, Tucson, Ariz; Asthma/Airway Disease Research Center, Tucson, Ariz; University of Arizona BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. 4. Department of Otolaryngology, Tucson, Ariz. 5. University of Arizona BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The study of pathogenic mechanisms in adult asthma is often marred by a lack of precise information about the natural history of the disease. Children who have persistent wheezing (PW) during the first 6 years of life and whose symptoms start before age 3 years (PW+) are much more likely to have wheezing illnesses due to rhinovirus (RV) in infancy and to have asthma into adult life than are those who do not have PW (PW-). OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to determine whether nasal epithelial cells from PW+ asthmatic adults as compared with cells from PW- asthmatic adults show distinct biomechanistic processes activated by RV exposure. METHODS: Air-liquid interface cultures derived from nasal epithelial cells of 36-year old participants with active asthma with and without a history of PW in childhood (10 PW+ participants and 20 PW- participants) from the Tucson Children's Respiratory Study were challenged with a human RV-A strain (RV-A16) or control, and their RNA was sequenced. RESULTS: A total of 35 differentially expressed genes involved in extracellular remodeling and angiogenesis distinguished the PW+ group from the PW- group at baseline and after RV-A stimulation. Notably, 22 transcriptomic pathways showed PW-by-RV interactions; the pathways were invariably overactivated in PW+ patients, and were involved in Toll-like receptor- and cytokine-mediated responses, remodeling, and angiogenic processes. CONCLUSIONS: Asthmatic adults with a history of persistent wheeze in the first 6 years of life have specific biomolecular alterations in response to RV-A that are not present in patients without such a history. Targeting these mechanisms may slow the progression of asthma in these patients.
BACKGROUND: The study of pathogenic mechanisms in adult asthma is often marred by a lack of precise information about the natural history of the disease. Children who have persistent wheezing (PW) during the first 6 years of life and whose symptoms start before age 3 years (PW+) are much more likely to have wheezing illnesses due to rhinovirus (RV) in infancy and to have asthma into adult life than are those who do not have PW (PW-). OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to determine whether nasal epithelial cells from PW+ asthmatic adults as compared with cells from PW- asthmatic adults show distinct biomechanistic processes activated by RV exposure. METHODS: Air-liquid interface cultures derived from nasal epithelial cells of 36-year old participants with active asthma with and without a history of PW in childhood (10 PW+ participants and 20 PW- participants) from the Tucson Children's Respiratory Study were challenged with a human RV-A strain (RV-A16) or control, and their RNA was sequenced. RESULTS: A total of 35 differentially expressed genes involved in extracellular remodeling and angiogenesis distinguished the PW+ group from the PW- group at baseline and after RV-A stimulation. Notably, 22 transcriptomic pathways showed PW-by-RV interactions; the pathways were invariably overactivated in PW+ patients, and were involved in Toll-like receptor- and cytokine-mediated responses, remodeling, and angiogenic processes. CONCLUSIONS: Asthmatic adults with a history of persistent wheeze in the first 6 years of life have specific biomolecular alterations in response to RV-A that are not present in patients without such a history. Targeting these mechanisms may slow the progression of asthma in these patients.
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