TABLE 7. Cytokine gene expression and protein production from human bronchial epitheial cells in response to a panel of PAMPs.
Cytokine gene expression levels (expressed as Fold Change compared to mock) (A) and cytokine protein levels (pg/ml) (B) produced by HBECs stimulated with agonists of PRRs in three biological triplicates as described in Figure 5.
| Gene expression: Fold change compared to mock. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate | Stimulus | IFNL1 | IFNL2,3 | IFNA2 | IL6 | IFNB | IL1B | TNF | OAS1 | CCL5 |
| 1 | mock | 1.08776613 | 0.79928221 | 1.19999823 | 1.30808036 | 1.32516511 | 0.85835078 | 1.48185745 | 1.153 | 0.99353337 |
| 2 | mock | 0.80309968 | 1.03944458 | 1.1125182 | 1.44052637 | 1.8698094 | 1.23454434 | 0.97639371 | 0.906 | 1.33467285 |
| 3 | mock | 1.14470878 | 1.20364527 | 0.74905252 | 0.53069423 | 0.40358282 | 0.94368815 | 0.6911441 | 0.957 | 0.75412391 |
| 1 | LPS | 2.26403152 | 1.34700233 | 0.57470547 | 8.53626546 | 1.8206117 | 1.87712863 | 1.83645884 | 0.823 | 1.0446748 |
| 2 | LPS | 0.88769411 | 1.19076621 | 0.68154988 | 5.79591359 | 1.22705776 | 1.84912206 | 2.02753574 | 0.631 | 1.07399805 |
| 3 | LPS | 0.08570655 | 0.79481745 | 0.45996989 | 6.10265885 | 0.35862051 | 1.897624 | 1.23594805 | 1.199 | 1.24693359 |
| 1 | R848 | 0.12626965 | 1.00125676 | 0.51241564 | 1.55489994 | 0.70863548 | 1.45388658 | 1.32152016 | 1.572 | 1.1366199 |
| 2 | R848 | 1.19116929 | 0.85538217 | 0.66924748 | 0.85064115 | 0.6127652 | 1.99729347 | 1.76992468 | 0.922 | 1.12812089 |
| 3 | R848 | 0.12662991 | 1.68360147 | 1.15521676 | 1.01779155 | 1.43743636 | 1.99409404 | 2.74516011 | 0.774 | 0.99089092 |
| 1 | CpG | 0.70965977 | 1.09906755 | 1.33329012 | 0.46222685 | 0.50048681 | 1.20562076 | 0.9860895 | 0.84 | 0.39827961 |
| 2 | CpG | 0.13897165 | 1.34321804 | 0.69414175 | 0.6819143 | 0.79420964 | 1.43290523 | 1.14569699 | 0.812 | 0.57587246 |
| 3 | CpG | 0.12914228 | 1.11462397 | 0.64504556 | 1.42512396 | 0.93157229 | 1.42900761 | 1.48854516 | 0.621 | 1.43524691 |
| 1 | poly(I:C) | 152.57392 | 269.767186 | 0.4036708 | 26.6623935 | 11.3580198 | 1.93664808 | 17.2269121 | 74.773 | 707.642877 |
| 2 | poly(I:C) | 108.38442 | 180.054819 | 0.30374745 | 17.2593057 | 5.68820494 | 1.8594426 | 10.8601403 | 68.343 | 606.266728 |
| 3 | poly(I:C) | 85.9993752 | 190.486567 | 0.47608847 | 15.0663454 | 6.22247983 | 1.66321366 | 11.4573603 | 59.053 | 447.126246 |
| 1 | 3pRNA | 540.068187 | 3029.78274 | 1.86181381 | 6.10027114 | 194.395249 | 1.49218139 | 1.88036466 | 137.506 | 45.9807249 |
| 2 | 3pRNA | 517.943584 | 2788.98084 | 1.52979042 | 7.93482956 | 220.443617 | 1.60169859 | 1.51268518 | 84.662 | 26.2228929 |
| 3 | 3pRNA | 492.066973 | 3308.17133 | 4.74806775 | 12.8623593 | 250.691648 | 1.59525226 | 1.44130584 | 82.562 | 29.1500038 |
| 1 | c-GAMP | 5.53607866 | 7.18213991 | 0.48317833 | 2.39282148 | 3.11833951 | 1.9264935 | 2.53645673 | 3.688 | 4.11139724 |
| 2 | c-GAMP | 7.39465192 | 20.6455335 | 1.49077696 | 2.09857544 | 2.6244464 | 1.5801579 | 1.60226108 | 2.784 | 2.43542714 |
| 3 | c-GAMP | 7.72934409 | 16.7636075 | 1.13941914 | 0.94170136 | 2.76246264 | 1.50864361 | 2.75171454 | 5.355 | 4.62987816 |
| Protein leves (pg/ml) | ||||||||||
| Replicate | Stimulus | CXCL10 | IFN-α2 | IFN-λ1 | IFN-λ2,3 | IFN-β | IFN-γ | IL-1β | IL-6 | IL-8 |
| 1 | mock | 15.285 | 0.669 | 6.761 | 22.01 | 5.93 | 0.97 | 6.47 | 16.61 | 4788.965 |
| 2 | mock | 29.836 | 1.182 | 11.246 | 48.61 | 19.131 | 1.7 | 14.5 | 29.59 | 8570.515 |
| 3 | mock | 41.735 | 1.31 | 13.626 | 52.74 | 18.155 | 2.1 | 15.45 | 36.05 | 11628.465 |
| 1 | LPS | 14.706 | 0.937 | 6.761 | 22.95 | 5.931 | 0.97 | 5.41 | 13.1 | 4280.483 |
| 2 | LPS | 20.446 | 0.862 | 8.663 | 26.73 | 6.212 | 0.97 | 10.08 | 19.67 | 6299.808 |
| 3 | LPS | 23.085 | 0.981 | 9.112 | 43.53 | 17.831 | 1.56 | 9.32 | 24.3 | 6747.016 |
| 1 | R848 | 18.828 | 0.894 | 9.553 | 35.17 | 10.894 | 1.32 | 13.06 | 27.03 | 6533.723 |
| 2 | R848 | 19.263 | 0.894 | 8.663 | 32.37 | 9.462 | 1.22 | 12.33 | 23.85 | 7074.38 |
| 3 | R848 | 18.62 | 0.729 | 8.205 | 22.01 | 7.629 | 0.97 | 9.07 | 21.63 | 5521.605 |
| 1 | CpG | 11.033 | 0.574 | 6.188 | 13.41 | 5.931 | 0.97 | 4.61 | 5.9 | 4872.379 |
| 2 | CpG | 13.423 | 0.81 | 8.205 | 23.9 | 5.931 | 0.97 | 8.17 | 9.58 | 6586.405 |
| 3 | CpG | 13.784 | 0.831 | 9.112 | 29.55 | 6.492 | 1.51 | 9.07 | 14.13 | 6489.428 |
| 1 | poly(I:C) | 8008.032 | 1.159 | 324.505 | 63.66 | 261.164 | 1.41 | 16.15 | 456.82 | 19457.155 |
| 2 | poly(I:C) | 9717.693 | 1.925 | 370.669 | 90.86 | 302.521 | 2.61 | 20.79 | 693.4 | 23680.885 |
| 3 | poly(I:C) | 9967.855 | 2.144 | 436.984 | 114.72 | 336.636 | 2.82 | 24.12 | 762.95 | 25097.665 |
| 1 | 3pRNA | 7364.434 | 1.047 | 140.25 | 61.85 | 241.609 | 1.41 | 18.45 | 48.65 | 9523.413 |
| 2 | 3pRNA | 7845.313 | 1.047 | 159.882 | 68.18 | 236.71 | 1.51 | 21.23 | 53.93 | 12032.822 |
| 3 | 3pRNA | 8424.087 | 1.345 | 167.729 | 77.14 | 264.936 | 1.51 | 19.8 | 61.12 | 11463.586 |
| 1 | c-GAMP | 133.378 | 1.024 | 16.947 | 44.92 | 28.268 | 1.36 | 10.96 | 64.01 | 5924.002 |
| 2 | c-GAMP | 102.066 | 0.64 | 10.832 | 22.95 | 5.931 | 0.97 | 8.29 | 54.51 | 5697.244 |
| 3 | c-GAMP | 115.437 | 1.069 | 12.456 | 36.1 | 16.54 | 1.41 | 13.3 | 70.44 | 6955.899 |