PMID: 8605364Apr 15, 1996Paper

Neutrophil deactivation by influenza A viruses: mechanisms of protection after viral opsonization with collectins and hemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies.

Blood
K L HartshornErika C Crouch

Abstract

Bacterial superinfections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality during influenza A virus (IAV) epidemics. Depression of phagocyte functions resulting from attachment of the IAV hemagglutinin (HA) to cell surface sialo-glycoproteins is a likely contributory cause of these infections. We have proposed that the group of collagenous lectins (termed collectins) present in blood and pulmonary surfactant play a role in initial host defense against IAV. We used here several recombinant human surfactant protein D (RhSP-D) preparations to determine the mechanism through which opsonization of IAV with collectins protects neutrophils against the deactivating effects of IAV on cellular respiratory burst responses in vitro. RhSP-D was markedly more potent than antibodies that inhibited viral hemagglutination activity (anti-HA antibodies) at protecting neutrophils in this assay. Unlike the anti-HA antibodies, RhSP-D was protective at concentrations that minimally inhibited viral hemagglutination activity. Two related features of SP-D--the degree of multimerization and the ability to cause aggregation of IAV particles--were critical determinants of the ability of SP-D to protect neutrophils against deactivation. Similarly SP-D-induced v...Continue Reading

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