Journal
CIRCULATION
Volume 112, Issue 15, Pages 2276-2285Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.536433
Keywords
heart failure; immunology; inflammation; myocarditis; viruses
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Background - Myeloid differentiation factor (MyD)-88 is a key adaptor protein that plays a major role in the innate immune pathway. How MyD88 may regulate host response in inflammatory heart disease is unknown. Methods and Results - We found that the cardiac protein level of MyD88 was significantly increased in the hearts of wild-type mice after exposure to Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3). MyD88(-/-) mice showed a dramatic higher survival rate (86%) in contrast to the low survival (35%) in the MyD88(-/-) mice after CVB3 infection (P < 0.0001). Pathological examination showed a significant decrease of cardiac and pancreatic inflammation in the MyD88(-/-) mice. Viral concentrations in the hearts were significantly decreased in the MyD88(-/-) mice. Cardiac mRNA levels for interleukin (IL)-1 beta, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, interferon (IFN)-gamma, and IL-18 were significantly decreased in the MyD88(-/-) mice. Similarly, serum levels of T-helper 1 cytokines were significantly decreased in the MyD88(-/-) mice. In contrast, cardiac protein levels of the activated interferon regulatory factor (IRF)-3 and IFN-beta were significantly increased in the MyD88(-/-) mice but not other usual upstream signals to IRF-3. The cardiac expression of coxsackie-adenoviral receptor and p56(lck) were also significantly decreased. Conclusions - MyD88 appears to be a key contributor to cardiac inflammation, mediating cytokine production and T-helper-1/2 cytokine balance, increasing coxsackie-adenoviral receptor and p56(lck) expression and viral titers after CVB3 exposure. Absence of MyD88 confers host protection possibly through novel direct activation of IRF-3 and IFN-beta.
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