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Aytu BioPharma Announces Publication of In Vitro Study Demonstrating That Ultraviolet-A Light Increases Mitochondrial Anti-Viral Signaling Protein Within CellsAYTU STOCK
May 12, 2021
ENGLEWOOD, CO / ACCESSWIRE / May 12, 2021 / Aytu BioPharma, Inc. (NASDAQ:AYTU), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on commercializing novel therapeutics and consumer healthcare products, announced today that in vitro data related to the ultraviolet (UV) A light used in the Healight™ UVA endotracheal catheter technology was published in BioRxiv, an online archive for health science manuscripts that are not yet peer reviewed.
The manuscript titled "Ultraviolet-A light increases mitochondrial anti-viral signaling protein via cell-cell communication" concluded that UVA light increases the expression of mitochondrial antiviral-signaling (MAVS) protein within cells, and the results suggest that this transmission of an increase in intracellular MAVS involves cell-to-cell communication. These findings confirm that an increase of MAVS in response to UVA light can be transmitted from cells directly exposed to UVA light to neighboring cells that have not been directly exposed to UVA light and suggest that cell-to-cell signaling is involved in the process of eliciting UVA light's antiviral effect.
"These latest findings continue to build upon the potential of the UVA light platform technology and may reveal the fundamental basis for the therapeutic effect of the specific UVA light used in the Healight endotracheal catheter. These findings point to the fact that direct exposure of cells to UVA light may not be required to elicit an antiviral effect against a pathogen like SARS-CoV-2 because the mitochondrial activation results in a wide-ranging cell-to-cell response which could result in an increased antiviral effect, "commented Josh Disbrow, chief executive officer of Aytu BioPharma.
In the study, MAVS levels were compared in primary human tracheal epithelial cells (HTEpC) exposed to narrow band (NB)-UVA light for 20 minutes and in unexposed controls, at 30-40% and at 100% cell culture confluency. MAVS levels were also compared in unexposed HTEpC cells treated with supernatants or lysates from UVA-exposed cells or from unexposed controls, and in cells from different sections of confluent monolayer plates where only one section of the plate was exposed to NB-UVA. This study did not test the use of the actual Healight device to treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Normalized MAVS levels, as detected by western blot, were increased in NB-UVA exposed cells when compared to unexposed controls (P=0.0193). There were no changes in normalized MAVS levels, when naïve 30-40% confluent HTEpC cells were treated with supernatants or cell lysates from NB-UVA exposed 30-40% confluent HTEpC cells (P=0.4022, P=0.1256). Normalized MAVS levels gradually increased from section 4 (farthest unexposed area) through section 1 (closest area exposed to NB-UVA) (P=0.08), and there was a significant increase in MAVS levels in section 1 (exposed to NB-UVA) when compared to unexposed section 4 (P=0.0382).
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