Title Airway-delivered short-chain fatty acid acetate boosts antiviral immunity during rhinovirus infection.
Author Antunes, Krist Helen; Singanayagam, Aran; Williams, Lily; Faiez, Tasnim Syakirah; Farias, Ana; Jackson, Millie M; Faizi, Fatima K; Aniscenko, Julia; Kebadze, Tatiana; Chander Veerati, Punnam; Wood, Lisa; Bartlett, Nathan W; Duarte de Souza, Ana Paula; Johnston, Sebastian L
Journal J Allergy Clin Immunol Publication Year/Month 2022-Oct
PMID 36216081 PMCID -N/A-
Affiliation + expend 1.Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Immunology - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre; National Heart and Lung Institute and, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London.

BACKGROUND: Microbiota are recognized to play a major role in regulation of immunity through release of immunomodulatory metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs). Rhinoviruses (RVs) induce upper respiratory tract illnesses and precipitate exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease through poorly understood mechanisms. Local interactions between SCFAs and antiviral immune responses in the respiratory tract have not been previously investigated. OBJECTIVE: We sought to investigate whether pulmonary metabolite manipulation through lung-delivered administration of SCFAs can modulate antiviral immunity to RV infection. METHODS: We studied the effects of intranasal administration of the SCFAs acetate, butyrate, and propionate on basal expression of antiviral signatures, and of acetate in a mouse model of RV infection and in RV-infected lung epithelial cell lines. We additionally assessed the effects of acetate, butyrate, and propionate on RV infection in differentiated human primary bronchial epithelial cells. RESULTS: Intranasal acetate administration induced basal upregulation of IFN-beta, an effect not observed with other SCFAs. Butyrate induced RIG-I expression. Intranasal acetate treatment of mice increased interferon-stimulated gene and IFN-lambda expression during RV infection and reduced lung virus loads at 8 hours postinfection. Acetate ameliorated virus-induced proinflammatory responses with attenuated pulmonary mucin and IL-6 expression observed at day 4 and 6 postinfection. This interferon-enhancing effect of acetate was confirmed in human bronchial and alveolar epithelial cell lines. In differentiated primary bronchial epithelial cells, butyrate treatment better modulated IFN-beta and IFN-lambda gene expression during RV infection. CONCLUSIONS: SCFAs augment antiviral immunity and reduce virus load and proinflammatory responses during RV infection.

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