title: Diet-induced obese mice exhibit altered heterologous immunity during a secondary 2009 pandemic H1N1 infection.
abstract: During the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus (pH1N1) outbreak, obese individuals were at greater risk for morbidity and mortality from pandemic infection. However, the mechanisms contributing to greater infection severity in obese individuals remain unclear. Although most individuals lacked pre-existing, neutralizing Ab protection to the novel pH1N1 virus, heterologous defenses conferred from exposure to circulating strains or vaccination have been shown to impart protection against pH1N1 infection in humans and mice. Because obese humans and mice have impaired memory T cell and Ab responses following influenza vaccination or infection, we investigated the impact of obesity on heterologous protection from pH1N1 infection using a mouse model of diet-induced obesity. Lean and obese mice were infected with influenza A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (PR8) and 5 wk later challenged with a lethal dose of heterologous pH1N1. Cross-neutralizing Ab protection was absent in this model, but obese mice exhibited a significantly lower level of nonneutralizing, cross-reactive pH1N1 nucleoprotein Abs following the primary PR8 infection. Further, obese mice had elevated viral titers, greater lung inflammation and lung damage, and more cytotoxic memory CD8(+) T cells in the lung airways. Although obese mice had more regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the lung airways than did lean controls during the pH1N1 challenge, Tregs isolated from obese mice were 40% less suppressive than Tregs isolated from lean mice. In sum, excessive inflammatory responses to pH1N1 infection, potentially owing to greater viral burden and impaired Treg function, may be a novel mechanism by which obesity contributes to greater pH1N1 severity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
authors.forename: J Justin
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Milner
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Sheridan
authors.forename: Erik A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Karlsson
authors.forename: Stacey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schultz-Cherry
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Melinda A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D003429:Cross Reactions / Q000276:immunology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D053118:Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008820:Mice, Obese; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology*; D009976:Orthomyxoviridae Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology*; D058873:Pandemics
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral
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