Host defense cathelicidins in cattle: types, production, bioactive functions and potential therapeutic and diagnostic applications
| Autor: | Paloma A. Cavalcante, Morgan Young-Speirs, Dominique Drouin, Eduardo R. Cobo, Herman W. Barkema |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) medicine.drug_class medicine.medical_treatment Antimicrobial peptides Antibiotics Computational biology Biology Cathelicidin 03 medical and health sciences Immune system Anti-Infective Agents Viral envelope Cathelicidins medicine Animals Pharmacology (medical) Mastitis Bovine Bacteria Host (biology) Fungi 0402 animal and dairy science 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences General Medicine Antimicrobial 040201 dairy & animal science 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases Viruses Cattle Female lipids (amino acids peptides and proteins) Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 51:813-821 |
| ISSN: | 0924-8579 |
| Popis: | Cathelicidins are a primitive class of host defense peptides and are known for their broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity against bacteria, fungi, and enveloped viruses. These small, cationic, proteolytically-activated peptides are diverse in structure, encompassing a wide range of activities on host immune and inflammatory cell responses. The dual capacity of cathelicidins to directly control infection and regulate host defenses highlights the potential use of these peptides as alternatives to antibiotics and immunomodulators. Cathelicidins are found in many mammalian species; this review focuses on bovine cathelicidins. Eight naturally and two synthetically occurring bovine cathelicidins are described in detail, with a focus on recent advances in their expression, location and biological roles. This review also presents an overview of the bioactive functions of cathelicidins in bovine mastitis, a disease causing economic losses in cattle dairy production. Comparison of the structural, antimicrobial, cytotoxic and mechanistic properties of bovine cathelicidins advances the knowledge needed for the development of these peptides as potential identifiers of infectious diseases (e.g., bovine mastitis) and as novel therapeutic alternatives to antibiotics. |
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