Treatment with interferon-α2b and ribavirin improves outcome in MERS-CoV–infected rhesus macaques
Identifieur interne : 000412 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 000411; suivant : 000413Treatment with interferon-α2b and ribavirin improves outcome in MERS-CoV–infected rhesus macaques
Auteurs : Darryl Falzarano ; Emmie De Wit ; Angela L. Rasmussen ; Friederike Feldmann ; Atsushi Okumura ; Dana P. Scott ; Doug Brining ; Trenton Bushmaker ; Cynthia Martellaro ; Laura Baseler ; Arndt G. Benecke ; Michael G. Katze ; Vincent J. Munster ; Heinz FeldmannSource :
- Nature Medicine [ 1078-8956 ] ; 2013.
Abstract
The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has killed ∼50% of individuals known to be infected, making understanding its mechanisms of transmission and pathogenesis and identifying candidate treatments a high priority. Heinz Feldmann, Vincent J. Munster and Michael G. Katze and their colleagues now report that treating MERS-CoV-infected rhesus macaques with interferon-α2b and ribavirin reduced virus replication and infection severity, suggesting the potential use of this combination for the clinical treatment of infected humans.
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contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bushmaker</surname><given-names>Trenton</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff4">4</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Martellaro</surname><given-names>Cynthia</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Baseler</surname><given-names>Laura</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff5">5</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Benecke</surname><given-names>Arndt G</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff6">6</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Katze</surname><given-names>Michael G</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff7">7</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Munster</surname><given-names>Vincent J</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff4">4</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Feldmann</surname><given-names>Heinz</given-names></name><address><email>feldmannh@niaid.nih.gov</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff8">8</xref></contrib><aff id="Aff1"><label>1</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.419681.3</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0001 2164 9667</institution-id><institution>Division of Intramural Research,</institution><institution>Disease Modeling and Transmission Unit, Laboratory of Virology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories,</institution></institution-wrap>Hamilton, Montana USA</aff><aff id="Aff2"><label>2</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.34477.33</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000122986657</institution-id><institution>Department of Microbiology,</institution><institution>University of Washington,</institution></institution-wrap>Seattle, Washington USA</aff><aff id="Aff3"><label>3</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.419681.3</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0001 2164 9667</institution-id><institution>Division of Intramural Research,</institution><institution>Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories,</institution></institution-wrap>Hamilton, Montana USA</aff><aff id="Aff4"><label>4</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.419681.3</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0001 2164 9667</institution-id><institution>Division of Intramural Research,</institution><institution>Virus Ecology Unit, Laboratory of Virology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories,</institution></institution-wrap>Hamilton, Montana USA</aff><aff id="Aff5"><label>5</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.169077.e</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0004 1937 2197</institution-id><institution>Department of Comparative Pathobiology,</institution><institution>Purdue University,</institution></institution-wrap>West Lafayette, Indiana USA</aff><aff id="Aff6"><label>6</label>Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, UMR7224 France</aff><aff id="Aff7"><label>7</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.34477.33</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000122986657</institution-id><institution>Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington,</institution></institution-wrap>Seattle, Washington USA</aff><aff id="Aff8"><label>8</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.21613.37</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000 0004 1936 9609</institution-id><institution>Department of Medical Microbiology,</institution><institution>University of Manitoba,</institution></institution-wrap>Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>8</day><month>9</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>19</volume><issue>10</issue><fpage>1313</fpage><lpage>1317</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>24</day><month>5</month><year>2013</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>27</day><month>8</month><year>2013</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. 2013</copyright-statement><license><license-p>This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract id="Abs1" abstract-type="web-summary"><p id="Par1">The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has killed ∼50% of individuals known to be infected, making understanding its mechanisms of transmission and pathogenesis and identifying candidate treatments a high priority. Heinz Feldmann, Vincent J. Munster and Michael G. Katze and their colleagues now report that treating MERS-CoV-infected rhesus macaques with interferon-α2b and ribavirin reduced virus replication and infection severity, suggesting the potential use of this combination for the clinical treatment of infected humans.</p><sec><title>Supplementary information</title><p>The online version of this article (doi:10.1038/nm.3362) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.</p></sec></abstract><abstract id="Abs2"><p id="Par2">The emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is of global concern: the virus has caused severe respiratory illness, with 111 confirmed cases and 52 deaths<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref></sup> at the time of this article's publication. Therapeutic interventions have not been evaluated <italic>in vivo</italic>; thus, patient management relies exclusively on supportive care, which, given the high case-fatality rate, is not highly effective. The rhesus macaque is the only known model organism for MERS-CoV infection, developing an acute localized to widespread pneumonia with transient clinical disease<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR3">3</xref></sup> that recapitulates mild to moderate human MERS-CoV cases<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR4">4</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR5">5</xref></sup>. The combination of interferon-<bold>α</bold>2b and ribavirin was effective in reducing MERS-CoV replication <italic>in vitro</italic><sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR6">6</xref></sup>; therefore, we initiated this treatment 8 h after inoculation of rhesus macaques. In contrast to untreated, infected macaques, treated animals did not develop breathing abnormalities and showed no or very mild radiographic evidence of pneumonia. Moreover, treated animals showed lower levels of systemic (serum) and local (lung) proinflammatory markers, in addition to fewer viral genome copies, distinct gene expression and less severe histopathological changes in the lungs. Taken together, these data suggest that treatment of MERS-CoV infected rhesus macaques with IFN-<bold>α</bold>2b and ribavirin reduces virus replication, moderates the host response and improves clinical outcome. As these two drugs are already used in combination in the clinic for other infections, IFN-<bold>α</bold>2b and ribavirin should be considered for the management of MERS-CoV cases.</p><sec><title>Supplementary information</title><p>The online version of this article (doi:10.1038/nm.3362) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="npg-subject"><title>Subject terms</title><kwd>Viral infection</kwd><kwd>Drug therapy</kwd></kwd-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-copyright-statement</meta-name><meta-value>© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. 2013</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="Sec1"><title>Main</title><p id="Par3">MERS-CoV is the first lineage-C betacoronavirus known to infect humans<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR7">7</xref></sup>. Similar to SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) coronavirus infection, MERS-CoV infection can result in an acute respiratory distress syndrome with multiorgan dysfunction<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR8">8</xref></sup>. The rapid identification of therapeutics for MERS-CoV is a high priority as there is currently no specific therapy or vaccine. A meta-analysis of data from the SARS outbreak in 2003<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR9">9</xref></sup> found that the benefit of different treatment strategies<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR11">11</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">14</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR16">16</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR17">17</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR18">18</xref></sup> was inconclusive at best<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR9">9</xref></sup>. We recently demonstrated <italic>in vitro</italic> that the antiviral effect of interferon-α2b (IFN-α2b) against MERS-CoV is augmented by the concomitant use of ribavirin, and when we combined the treatments, the effective concentrations were such that they could be used in the clinic<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR6">6</xref></sup>. Here we evaluate the effectiveness <italic>in vivo</italic> of combination IFN-α2b and ribavirin treatment, in an attempt to identify a therapeutic approach that can be immediately implemented in the clinic for MERS-CoV cases.</p><p id="Par4">Two groups of three rhesus macaques were infected with 7 × 10<sup>6</sup>, the TCID<sub>50</sub> (50% tissue culture infectious dose), of MERS-CoV (hCoV-EMC/2012, a clinical isolate<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR8">8</xref></sup>), as previously described<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref></sup>. We initiated treatment 8 h after infection, with subcutaneous delivery of 5 mega international units (MIU)/kg of IFN-α2b and an intravenous loading dose of ribavirin (30 mg per kg body weight). We subsequently treated the rhesus macaques with ribavirin intramuscularly (10 mg per kg body weight) every 8 h and IFN-α2b (5 MIU/kg) subcutaneously every 16 h until 72 h after infection, when all animals were euthanized (<xref rid="Fig1" ref-type="fig">Fig. 1a</xref>) at the peak of clinical signs and viral loads in this model<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR3">3</xref></sup>.<fig id="Fig1"><label>Figure 1</label><caption><title>Schedule of treatment and selected clinical laboratory parameters.</title><p>(<bold>a</bold>) Schematic showing the experiment schedule. IFN-α2b was delivered subcutaneously at 5 MIU/kg. Ribavirin was delivered as an initial loading dose intravenously at 30 mg/kg (full circle) with subsequent doses delivered intramuscularly at 10 mg/kg (half-full circle). Rhesus macaques were given either IFN-α2b and ribavirin (treated, RM1–RM3, <italic>n</italic> = 3) or sham treatment (untreated, RM4–RM6, <italic>n</italic> = 3) on the same schedule. (<bold>b</bold>) Clinical score (see also <xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Table 1</xref>) determined from an established scoring sheet<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref></sup>. (<bold>c</bold>) Changes in oxygen saturation from preinoculation values (% δSPO<sub>2</sub>). (<bold>d</bold>,<bold>e</bold>) The total number of white blood cells (WBCs) (<bold>d</bold>) and neutrophils (<bold>e</bold>) in blood samples obtained from animals 0, 24, 48 and 72 h after infection. All values are mean ± s.d. (two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Bonferroni's <italic>post hoc</italic> test, <sup>**</sup><italic>P</italic> < 0.01). A single sample per time point per animal was used for the analysis. K, cell count × 10<sup>3</sup>.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="41591_2013_Article_BFnm3362_Fig1_HTML" id="d29e576"></graphic></fig></p><p id="Par5">Infection with MERS-CoV in the absence of treatment led to similar clinical signs as previously reported, including increased respiration rates, abdominal breathing and piloerection<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR3">3</xref></sup> (<xref rid="Fig1" ref-type="fig">Fig. 1b</xref> and <xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Table 1</xref>). The animals' observed breathing difficulties were supported by evidence of decreased oxygen saturation in untreated animals (2–5% decrease from baseline) (<xref rid="Fig1" ref-type="fig">Fig. 1c</xref>). We observed significantly increased white blood cell counts in untreated animals 1 d after infection, but they returned to normal levels on subsequent days (<xref rid="Fig1" ref-type="fig">Fig. 1d</xref>). We attributed the increase in white blood cells mainly to a significant increase in neutrophils (<xref rid="Fig1" ref-type="fig">Fig. 1e</xref>). In contrast, treated animals did not show evidence of increased respiration, piloerection or decreased oxygen saturation levels, nor did they show significant changes in hematology (<xref rid="Fig1" ref-type="fig">Fig. 1d,e</xref>). To monitor signs of pneumonia, we X-rayed the animals daily. Radiographs from treated animals remained normal 1 d after infection and showed, at most, light infiltration in a single lobe 2 or 3 d after infection in one or two of three animals, respectively (<xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Table 2</xref>). In contrast, untreated animals showed evidence of increasing amounts of interstitial infiltration between 1 and 3 d after infection, ranging from localized (single lobe) to diffuse severe pulmonary interstitial infiltration throughout the lungs (<xref rid="Fig2" ref-type="fig">Fig. 2</xref> and <xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Table 2</xref>).<fig id="Fig2"><label>Figure 2</label><caption><title>Radiographic alterations.</title><p>Ventrodorsal thoracic X-rays from IFN-α2b– and ribavirin–treated (RM1–RM3) and untreated (RM4–RM6) rhesus macaques imaged before MERS-CoV infection (day 0) and on day 3 after infection. Areas of interstitial infiltration, indicative of pneumonia, are circled. R indicates the right side of the animal.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="41591_2013_Article_BFnm3362_Fig2_HTML" id="d29e624"></graphic></fig></p><p id="Par6">Upon necropsy, gross pathology revealed lungs that were normal in appearance in all treated animals (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3a</xref>). In contrast, lungs from untreated animals were firm and edematous, failed to collapse (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3a</xref>) and contained gross lesions with a mean affected area of 14.3% (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3a</xref> and <xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Table 3</xref>). Multifocal consolidation and dark red discoloration, consistent with interstitial pneumonia, was most prevalent on the dorsal surface of the lungs of untreated animals. We did not observe any other pathological changes at necropsy.<fig id="Fig3"><label>Figure 3</label><caption><title>Pathology and viral loads in selected tissue samples.</title><p>(<bold>a</bold>) Gross pathology of lungs from IFN-α2b– and ribavirin–treated (left) and untreated (middle) MERS-CoV–infected rhesus macaques 72 h after inoculation. The percentage area showing gross pathology is indicated on the right. Six lung lobes per animal (dorsal and ventral) from three animals per group were scored. (<bold>b</bold>) The mean viral load determined by qRT-PCR from individual tissues collected at necropsy. The mean viral load of all lung lobes combined is indicated in the inset. Log TCID<sub>50</sub> eq/g, log TCID<sub>50</sub> equivalents per gram tissue; one sample per tissue per animal from three animals per group were analyzed. (<bold>c</bold>,<bold>d</bold>) Lung tissue collected at necropsy stained with H&E. Pulmonary arterioles appear normal in treated animals (RM2) (<bold>c</bold>, left). Treated RM2 shows mild acute bronchointerstitial pneumonia demonstrated by multifocal accumulations of inflammatory cells centered on terminal bronchioles (<bold>c</bold>, middle). Higher magnification of the boxed region showing thickening of the alveolar septae by small numbers of neutrophils, macrophages, fibrin and edema (asterisk) (<bold>c</bold>, right). Pulmonary arterioles are bounded by moderate numbers of lymphocytes indicative of perivasculitis in untreated animals (<bold>d</bold>, left). Larger numbers of inflammatory cells and fibrin also extend into alveolar spaces. Untreated RM4 shows marked coalescing bronchointerstitial pneumonia with abundant alveolar fibrin and edema (<bold>d</bold>, middle). Higher magnification of untreated RM4 showing airways filled with organizing fibrin (arrow) and moderate numbers of viable and degenerate neutrophils and macrophages (<bold>d</bold>, right). (<bold>e</bold>) Percentage of neutrophils in lung sections stained with myeloperoxidase. Two sections per lobe and six lobes per animal from three animals per group were analyzed. All values are mean ± s.d. (<italic>t</italic>-test, <sup>*</sup><italic>P</italic> < 0.05, <sup>**</sup><italic>P</italic> < 0.01).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="41591_2013_Article_BFnm3362_Fig3_HTML" id="d29e703"></graphic></fig></p><p id="Par7">We used quantitative real-time RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) to determine viral loads as TCID<sub>50</sub> equivalents in tissues, fluids and nasal and throat swabs<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref></sup>. There was no detectable viral RNA in the blood at any time point or in urine taken at necropsy. Daily bronchial alveolar lavage samples showed similar viral loads between treated and untreated groups (<xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Fig. 1</xref>). With the exception of the oronasopharynx in treated animals, all respiratory tract tissues collected at necropsy were positive for MERS-CoV by qRT-PCR (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3b</xref>). Viral RNA was also absent from the tonsils, spleen and kidney of treated animals, but it was present in these tissues in two of three untreated animals. In all of the tissues analyzed, with the exception of left middle lobe lung specimens, the viral loads were lower in specimens from treated animals as compared to untreated animals (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3b</xref>). When we combined the values from all lung specimens, the mean viral load in treated animals was 0.81 log lower than in untreated animals (<italic>P</italic> = 0.0428, unpaired <italic>t</italic>-test, one tail), demonstrating a statistically significant reduction in virus replication throughout the lung (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3b</xref>, inset).</p><p id="Par8">All animals developed some degree of pulmonary pathology with mild to marked multifocal bronchointerstitial pneumonia, predominantly centered on the terminal bronchioles (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3c,d</xref>). However, untreated rhesus macaques 4 and 5 showed moderate to marked lesions with abundant alveolar edema, fibrin with formation of hyaline membranes and low to moderate numbers of macrophages (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3d</xref>), a lesion severity not observed in the treated animals (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3c</xref> and <xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Table 3</xref>). Only untreated animals showed significant scoring for perivascular infiltrates within and adjacent to affected areas of the lung (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3d</xref>) (<italic>P</italic> < 0.001, Mann-Whitney). We observed higher numbers of neutrophils in lungs of untreated animals compared to treated ones (9.3% compared to 6.1%, respectively) (<xref rid="Fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3e</xref>).</p><p id="Par9">We monitored serum IFN-α levels to assess the delivery of IFN-α2b. Treated animals had at least 2.3 times the level of IFN-α measured in untreated animals (1 and 3 d after infection), whereas 2 d after infection, treated animals had 37 times the level of untreated animals (<xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Fig. 2</xref>), which probably reflects the timing of IFN-α2b administration in relation to blood collection. Untreated animals showed evidence of an IFN response 1 and 2 d after infection, with means of 190 and 103 pg/ml, respectively; however, IFN-α was undetectable by 3 d after infection. Treated animals did not show alterations in systemic (serum) interleukin-2 (IL-2), monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), IL-6, IL-15 and IFN-γ levels compared to those observed in untreated animals (<xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Fig. 3</xref>). We observed elevated local levels of IL-6, IFN-γ and MCP-1 in homogenate from lung tissue collected 3 d after infection of untreated animals compared to treated animals (<xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Fig. 3</xref>), which indicates a tissue-specific host response to infection that is moderated by treatment.</p><p id="Par10">We analyzed the effect of treatment on the lung transcriptome by microarray of RNA extracted from the right lower lobe (RLL). We performed a singular value decomposition–coupled multidimensional scaling (SVD-MDS) analysis, providing an overall view of the transcriptome, on samples from infected and uninfected animals in addition to control lung tissue samples from naive rhesus macaques (<xref rid="Fig4" ref-type="fig">Fig. 4a</xref>). Comparison of group means revealed a clear separation between the treated and untreated lung RLL samples; treated and untreated samples were also separated from naive control samples, indicating that treatment induces unique transcriptional changes. Using a relaxed <italic>P</italic> value cutoff (<italic>P</italic> < 0.05), we observed 966 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) when treated, infected and untreated, infected animals were compared to naive animals (<xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Table 4</xref>), many associated with innate antiviral processes induced by IFN-α2b and ribavirin<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref></sup>. These included genes encoding type 1 and 3 IFN, pattern recognition receptors and IFN-induced with helicase C domain 1 (<italic>IFIH1</italic>, or MDA5), effector molecules and associated signal transducers. Comparison of uninfected, untreated animals to infected, treated and infected, untreated animals revealed lower expression of inflammatory genes in treated animals suggestive of milder disease (<xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Fig. 5</xref>).<fig id="Fig4"><label>Figure 4</label><caption><title>Transcriptional signatures.</title><p>(<bold>a</bold>) Singular value decomposition–coupled multidimensional scaling (SVD-MDS) representation showing the distribution of individual samples following dimensionality reduction. This represents the similarity of the gene expression patterns of the following groups: uninfected, untreated control lung (black), MERS-CoV–infected, untreated lung (red, RM4–RM6) and MERS-CoV–infected, treated lung (blue, RM1–RM3). All lung samples were from the lower right lobe. Group means are shown as open circles, and distances from uninfected, untreated controls for MERS-CoV–infected, treated and MERS-CoV–infected, untreated macaques are shown as arrows between group means. The distance between points and groups is indicative of the differences in gene expression between the different groups. (<bold>b</bold>) Heatmap showing log<sub>10</sub> expression ratios to untreated, MERS-CoV–infected group mean of 205 DEGs associated with IFN-α2b and ribavirin treatment, as determined by Welch's <italic>t</italic>-test (<italic>P</italic> < 0.01, fold change ≥ 1.5) and grouped by hierarchical clustering. (<bold>c</bold>) Molecular interaction network built using DEGs shown in <bold>b</bold>. Solid lines show direct molecular interactions; dashed lines show indirect molecular interactions. Red molecules are those upregulated in treated animals relative to untreated, whereas turquoise molecules are downregulated.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="41591_2013_Article_BFnm3362_Fig4_HTML" id="d29e827"></graphic></fig></p><p id="Par11">To elucidate the mechanism by which treatment reduces inflammation and disease during MERS-CoV infection, we sought to identify DEGs that are not associated with known IFN-stimulated gene induction programs. By examining the 205 DEGs identified using a more stringent <italic>P</italic> value cutoff (<italic>P < 0.01</italic>) (<xref rid="Fig4" ref-type="fig">Fig. 4b</xref> and <xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Table 5</xref>) and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, we identified many genes that were downregulated in untreated animals. Many of these were associated with hedgehog signaling (<xref rid="Fig4" ref-type="fig">Fig. 4c</xref>), a pathway involved in respiratory morphogenesis and vascularization<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">27</xref></sup> and potentially involved in inflammatory injury<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref></sup>. In treated animals, we observed upregulation of sonic hedgehog (<italic>SHH</italic>) and subsequent downregulation of genes associated with cell proliferation (<xref rid="MOESM28" ref-type="media">Supplementary Table 5</xref>). SHH, the priming protein of the hedgehog pathway, and the associated molecule GLI family zinc finger 1 have been shown to block injurious responses in the pulmonary vasculature induced by multiple types of inflammatory and stress stimuli<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR29">29</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref></sup>. Consistent with the reduced inflammation, reduction in cellular infiltrates and lack of perivasculitis in the lungs of treated animals, the upregulation of <italic>SHH</italic> suggests that the hedgehog pathway may regulate the host response to protect the lung from potentially injurious inflammation.</p><p id="Par12">Rhesus macaques treated with IFN-α2b and ribavirin 8 h after MERS-CoV infection showed improved clinical parameters with no breathing abnormalities and little evidence of pneumonia by X-ray. In addition, treated animals showed reduced systemic and local levels of proinflammatory markers. Lung tissues collected from treated animals 3 d after infection showed a significant reduction in viral genome copies, an absence of gross lesions and less severe histopathological changes compared to untreated animals. Microarray analysis of the lung supported the success of treatment and identified the hedgehog signaling pathway as a putative contributor to decreased lung damage. These data suggest that treatment of MERS-CoV–infected rhesus macaques with IFN-α2b and ribavirin improves outcome of infection.</p><p id="Par13">IFN-α2b and ribavirin treatment would be expected to provide the greatest benefit early in infection; however, the prolonged disease course in humans<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR8">8</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref></sup> suggests that the treatment window may be considerably wider in the clinic. The disease severity in the rhesus macaque model, which seems most similar to mild to moderate human MERS-CoV cases, makes it difficult to extrapolate the outcome of this treatment in severe cases in humans. Thus, it is currently unknown whether initiation of treatment upon progression to severe respiratory illness would have any benefit, a situation faced in many acute infectious diseases. Additional therapeutics should be evaluated; however, given the severity and poor outcome of MERS-CoV infection, combined IFN-α2b and ribavirin therapy should be considered as an early intervention therapy for MERS-CoV.</p></sec><sec id="Sec2"><title>Methods</title><sec id="Sec3"><title>Biosafety statement.</title><p id="Par14">All infectious work with MERS-CoV was approved by the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and performed in a high-containment facility at the RML, Division of Intramural Research (DIR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). IBC-approved standard operating procedures were applied for all infectious work.</p></sec><sec id="Sec4"><title>Virus and cells.</title><p id="Par15">Vero cells (African green monkey kidney) were maintained at 37 °C in 5% CO<sub>2</sub> in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's media (DMEM) supplemented with 10% FBS (FBS), 50 U/ml penicillin and 50 μg/ml of streptomycin. MERS-CoV (isolate hCoV-EMC/2012)<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR8">8</xref></sup> was subsequently propagated on Vero cells using DMEM as above with 2% FBS (complete DMEM).</p></sec><sec id="Sec5"><title>Animals.</title><p id="Par16">All animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the Rocky Mountain Laboratories and performed following the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the guidelines of the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, International (AAALAC) by certified staff in an AAALAC-approved facility. We inoculated six healthy rhesus macaques (<italic>Macaca mulatta</italic>), aged 4–6 years, with a total of 7 × 10<sup>6</sup> TCID<sub>50</sub> of MERS-CoV by combined intratracheal, intranasal, oral and ocular routes as previously established<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR3">3</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR35">35</xref></sup>. Animals were randomly assigned to either the treated (two males, one female) or untreated (two females, one male) group in a nonblinded manner.</p></sec><sec id="Sec6"><title>Treatment.</title><p id="Par17">Treatment was initiated at 8 h after infection. The initial ribavirin (MP Bioscience) loading dose (30 mg per kg body weight) was delivered intravenously; subsequent doses (10 mg per kg body weight) were delivered every 8 h intramuscularly. Human interferon-α2b, as IntronA (Merck) (5 MIU/kg) was delivered subcutaneously every 16 h. Three animals received IFN-α2b and ribavirin (treated), whereas three animals received sham treatment (untreated) by the same routes with a comparable volume per kg body weight of sterile saline. The animals were monitored three times daily through clinical scoring and/or examinations as described previously<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref></sup>. Clinical examinations included daily ventral-dorsal and lateral X-rays, evaluations of body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and respiration rate, pulse oximetry, venous bleeding, bronchoalveolar lavage and collection of swabs from nasal and oral mucosa. A board-certified veterinarian interpreted the radiographic data. On day 3 after infection, all animals were necropsied, and conjunctiva, nasal mucosa, tonsil, oronasopharynx, mandibular lymph node, salivary gland, trachea, right bronchus, left bronchus, all six lung lobes, mediastinal lymph node, inguinal lymph node, axillary lymph node, mesenteric lymph node heart, liver, spleen, kidney and urinary bladder were collected for virological and histopathological assays.</p></sec><sec id="Sec7"><title>Hematology assays.</title><p id="Par18">Hematological analysis was carried out following standard protocols. The total white blood cell, lymphocyte, platelet, reticulocyte and red blood cell counts, hemoglobin and hematocrit values, mean cell volume, mean corpuscular volume, and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentrations were determined from EDTA blood with the HemaVet 950FS+ laser-based hematology analyzer (Drew Scientific).</p></sec><sec id="Sec8"><title>Serum and lung homogenate cytokine and chemokine analysis.</title><p id="Par19">Samples from all lung lobes were weighed and subsequently homogenized in 400 μl of Bio-Plex cell lysis buffer (BioRad) with a stainless steel bead on the Qiashredder (Qiagen). Debris were pelleted and the supernatant removed. Both serum and tissue samples were inactivated with 5 MRads γ-radiation according to standard operating procedures. The total protein concentration in the tissue homogenate was determined with the DC Protein Assay (BioRad) and used to normalize the input. Concentrations of granulocyte colony–stimulating factor, granulocyte-macrophage colony–stimulating factor, IFN-γ, IL-1β, IL-1RA, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12/23 (p40), IL-13, IL-15, IL-17, MCP-1 and macrophage inflammatory protein-1α (MIP-1α), MIP-1β, soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L), transforming growth factor-α (TGF-α), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and IL-18 were measured on a Bio-Plex 200 instrument (Bio-Rad) using the Non-Human Primate Cytokine MILLIPLEX map 23-plex kit (Millipore) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Levels of IFN-α in the serum were determined with the VeriKine human IFN-α ELISA kit (PBL, Piscataway, NJ) according to the manufacturer's instructions.</p></sec><sec id="Sec9"><title>Histopathology.</title><p id="Par20">Tissues were placed in cassettes and fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for 7 d. Subsequently, tissues were processed with a Sakura VIP-5 Tissue Tek, on a 12-h automated schedule, using a graded series of ethanol, xylene and ParaPlast Extra. Embedded tissues were sectioned at 5 μm and dried overnight at 42 °C before staining. Tissue sections were stained with H&E. Specific anti-CoV immunoreactivity was detected using a polyclonal rabbit antibody generated against hCoV-EMC/2012 at a 1:1,000 dilution. Tissues were also stained with a myeloperoxidase-specific antibody (1:450 dilution; 760-159, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN). The tissues were then processed for immunohistochemistry using the Discovery XT automated processor (Ventana Medical Systems) with a DAPMap (Ventana Medical Systems) kit, scanned with the Aperio ScanScope XT (Aperio Technologies, Inc.) and the entire section analyzed with the ImageScope Positive Pixel Count algorithm (version 9.1).</p></sec><sec id="Sec10"><title>Genome quantification and microarray sample preparation.</title><p id="Par21">RNA from AVL-treated blood and RLT-treated tissues were extracted with the QiaAmp Viral RNA and the RNeasy kits, respectively (Qiagen). qRT-PCR using primers and probe previously described<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref></sup> were performed on the RotorGene Q (Qiagen). A tenfold dilution series of viral RNA based on TCID<sub>50</sub> equivalents was used as a standard. For microarray analysis, lung homogenates were stored at −80 °C in equal volumes RLT buffer (Qiagen) and 70% ethanol until preparation. Samples were thawed, and two additional volumes of RLT buffer with 0.01 volumes of 2-mercaptoethanol were added, followed by an additional two volumes of 70% ethanol. RNA was then extracted using RNeasy spin columns per the manufacturer's protocol. Low-yield samples were concentrated using the RNA Clean and Concentrator (Zymo Research). Probe labeling was carried out using the Agilent Low Input processing protocol, and probes were hybridized to Agilent Rhesus macaque 4×44K microarrays (Agilent Technologies) using the manufacturer's one-color analysis protocol.</p></sec><sec id="Sec11"><title>Microarray data and functional analysis.</title><p id="Par22">For comparisons of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in infected lungs of both IFN-α2b– and ribavirin-treated and untreated animals, raw array data were uploaded to Genedata Analyst 7.6 (Genedata). Data were normalized using the quantile normalization method, and the log<sub>10</sub> ratio expression was calculated relative to the mean probe values of the three untreated animals. Statistically significant DEGs were determined using Welch's <italic>t</italic>-test (<italic>P</italic> < 0.01, fold change ≥ 1.5). Hierarchical clustering of DEGs was performed by the unweighted average method (unweighted pair group with arithmetic mean; UPGMA) using Spotfire DecisionSite 9.1.1 (Tibco). Analysis of functional enrichment was performed using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis software (Ingenuity Systems).</p><p id="Par23">For measures of gene expression dynamics, the array data were normalized using NeONORM<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR36">36</xref></sup> and subjected to SVD-MDS analysis<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR37">37</xref></sup>. In parallel, the data for each individual were merged using weighted averages to generate combined profiles. These were visualized using SVD-MDS.</p></sec><sec id="Sec12"><title>Statistical analyses.</title><p id="Par24">With the exception of the data from the microarray experiment, data were analyzed in Prism (GraphPad Software) using the unpaired <italic>t</italic>-test, two-way ANOVA with Bonferroni's <italic>post hoc</italic> test and the Mann-Whitney test as indicated in the figure legends.</p></sec><sec id="Sec13"><title>Accession codes.</title><p id="Par25">Raw microarray data are deposited in the National Center for Biotechnology Information Gene Expression Omnibus database under accession number <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE47957">GSE47957</ext-link>.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="supplementary-material"><title>Supplementary information</title><sec id="Sec14"><p><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="MOESM28"><media xlink:href="41591_2013_BFnm3362_MOESM28_ESM.pdf"><caption><title>Supplementary Text and Figures</title><p>Supplementary Figures 1–4 and Supplementary Tables 1–5 (PDF 3002 kb)</p></caption></media></supplementary-material></p></sec></sec></body><back><ack><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>We would like to thank B. Haagmans and R. Fouchier, Erasmus Medical Center, for providing MERS-CoV (isolate hCoV-EMC/2012). We also thank all the members of the Rocky Mountain Veterinary Branch (Division of Intramural Research, NIAID, US National Institutes of Health (NIH)) for their assistance, especially K. Cordova, J. Faris, K. Hardcastle, R. LaCasse, D. Long, K. Meade-White, R. Rosenke, T. Thomas and A. Weidow. A. Mora and A. Athman assisted with editing the figures.</p></ack><notes notes-type="author-contribution"><title>Author Contributions</title><p>D.F., E.d.W., V.J.M. and H.F. conceived of and designed the study. D.F., E.d.W., A.L.R., F.F., A.O., D.P.S., T.B., C.M. and D.B. performed the experiments. D.F., E.d.W., A.L.R., A.O., D.P.S., L.B., A.G.B., V.J.M., M.G.K. and H.F. analyzed the data. D.F., A.L.R., M.G.K. and H.F. wrote the manuscript. This work was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program, NIAID, NIH, in addition to the NIAID Regional Centers of Excellence (U54 AI081680), Systems Virology (NIH/NIAID contract number HHSN272200800060C) and Washington National Primate Research Center (P51OD010425) to M.G.K.</p></notes><notes notes-type="data-availability"><title>Accession codes</title><sec id="d29e1044"><title>Primary accessions</title><p><list list-type="bullet"><title>Gene Expression Omnibus</title><list-item><p id="Par28"><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE47957">GSE47957</ext-link></p></list-item></list></p></sec></notes><notes notes-type="COI-statement"><title>Competing interests</title><p id="Par26">The authors declare no competing financial interests.</p></notes><ref-list id="Bib1"><title>References</title><ref id="CR1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other">Anonymous. 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