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MCP-1, a highly expressed chemokine in dengue haemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome patients, may cause permeability change, possibly through reduced tight junctions of vascular endothelium cells

¹ Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, 1 Da-Shue Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan
² Tainan Hospital, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Tainan, Taiwan
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, 1 Da-Shue Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, 1 Da-Shue Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan
⁵ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Correspondence
Hsiao-Sheng Liu
a713{at}mail.ncku.edu.tw

Vascular leakage, one hallmark of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome, has been linked to the mediators secreted from cells in the circulatory system. In this study, extremely high expression levels of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) were found in the plasma of DHF patients compared with low MCP-1 expression levels in the plasma of enterovirus 71-infected patients. It was also found that MCP-1 expression was induced in dengue virus 2 (DV2)-infected monocytes and lymphocytes, but not in liver or endothelial cells. Exposing monolayers of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) to recombinant human MCP-1 (rhMCP-1) or to the culture supernatant of DV2-infected human monocytes increased the vascular permeability of the cells. MCP-1-neutralizing monoclonal antibody only partially prevented monolayer permeability change. Consistently, the distribution of the tight junction protein ZO-1 on the cellular membranes of HUVECs was disrupted by rhMCP-1 or by the conditioned medium of DV2-infected monocytes. In summary, it was found that the increased permeability and disrupted tight junctions of human vascular endothelium cells were effected through a mechanism partially dependent on MCP-1, which was secreted by DV2-infected monocytes and lymphocytes.