Evaluation of Mannose Binding Lectin Gene Variants in Pediatric Influenza Virus-Related Critical Illness

Overview

Journal Front Immunol

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2019 May 30

PMID 31139182

Authors

Emily R Levy

Wai-Ki Yip

Michael Super

Jill M Ferdinands

Anushay J Mistry

Margaret M Newhams

Yu Zhang

Helen C Su

Gwenn E McLaughlin

Anil Sapru

Laura L Loftis

Scott L Weiss

Mark W Hall

Natalie Cvijanovich

Adam Schwarz

Keiko M Tarquinio

Peter M Mourani

Adrienne G Randolph

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Abstract

Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is an innate immune protein with strong biologic plausibility for protecting against influenza virus-related sepsis and bacterial co-infection. In an autopsy cohort of 105 influenza-infected young people, carriage of the deleterious MBL gene _Gly54Asp("B") mutation was identified in 5 of 8 individuals that died from influenza-methicillin-resistant (MRSA) co-infection. We evaluated variants known to influence MBL levels with pediatric influenza-related critical illness susceptibility and/or severity including with bacterial co-infections. We enrolled children and adolescents with laboratory-confirmed influenza infection across 38 pediatric intensive care units from November 2008 to June 2016. We sequenced "low-producer" variants rs11003125("H/L"), rs7096206("Y/X"), rs1800450("B"), rs1800451("C"), rs5030737("D") in patients and biologic parents. We measured serum levels and compared complement activity in low-producing homozygotes ("B/B," "C/C") to HYA/HYA controls. We used a population control of 1,142 healthy children and also analyzed family trios (PBAT/HBAT) to evaluate disease susceptibility, and nested case-control analyses to evaluate severity. We genotyped 420 patients with confirmed influenza-related sepsis: 159 (38%) had acute lung injury (ALI), 165 (39%) septic shock, and 30 (7%) died. Although bacterial co-infection was diagnosed in 133 patients (32%), only MRSA co-infection ( = 33, 8% overall) was associated with death ( < 0.0001), present in 11 of 30 children that died (37%). variants predicted serum levels and complement activation as expected. We found no association between influenza-related critical illness susceptibility and variants using family trios (633 biologic parents) or compared to population controls. variants were not associated with admission illness severity, septic shock, ALI, or bacterial co-infection diagnosis. Carriage of low-MBL producing variants was not a risk factor for mortality, but children that died did have higher carriage of one or more B alleles (OR 2.3; = 0.007), including 7 of 11 with influenza MRSA-related death (vs. 2 of 22 survivors: OR 14.5, = 0.0002). variants that decrease MBL levels were not associated with susceptibility to pediatric influenza-related critical illness or with multiple measures of critical illness severity. We confirmed a prior report of higher B allele carriage in a relatively small number of young individuals with influenza-MRSA associated death.

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