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Journal of Virology, March 2005, p. 2979-2987, Vol. 79, No. 5
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.79.5.2979-2987.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Basal and Reovirus-Induced Beta Interferon (IFN-ß) and IFN-ß-Stimulated Gene Expression Are Cell Type Specific in the Cardiac Protective Response

Department of Microbiology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,¹ Department of Molecular Biological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina²

Received 6 May 2004/ Accepted 9 October 2004

Viral myocarditis is an important human disease, with a wide variety of viruses implicated. Cardiac myocytes are not replenished yet are critical for host survival and thus may have a unique response to infection. Previously, we determined that the extent of reovirus induction of beta interferon (IFN-ß) and IFN-ß-mediated protection in primary cardiac myocyte cultures was inversely correlated with the extent of reovirus-induced cardiac damage in a mouse model. Surprisingly, and in contrast, the IFN-ß response did not determine reovirus replication in skeletal muscle cells. Here we compared the IFN-ß response in cardiac myocytes to that in primary cardiac fibroblast cultures, a readily replenished cardiac cell type. We compared basal and reovirus-induced expression of IFN-ß, IRF-7 (an interferon-stimulated gene [ISG] that further induces IFN-ß), and another ISG (561) in the two cell types by using real-time reverse transcription-PCR. Basal IFN-ß, IRF-7, and 561 expression was higher in cardiac myocytes than in cardiac fibroblasts. Reovirus T3D induced greater expression of IFN-ß in cardiac myocytes than in cardiac fibroblasts but equivalent expression of IRF-7 and 561 in the two cell types (though fold induction for IRF-7 and 561 was higher in fibroblasts than in myocytes because of the differences in basal expression). Interestingly, while reovirus replicated to equivalent titers in cardiac myocytes and cardiac fibroblasts, removal of IFN-ß resulted in 10-fold-greater reovirus replication in the fibroblasts than in the myocytes. Together the data suggest that the IFN-ß response controls reovirus replication equivalently in the two cell types. In the absence of reovirus-induced IFN-ß, however, reovirus replicates to higher titers in cardiac fibroblasts than in cardiac myocytes, suggesting that the higher basal IFN-ß and ISG expression in myocytes may play an important protective role.

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