Publication Date:
2012-06-23
Description:
Defensins are antimicrobial peptides that contribute broadly to innate immunity, including protection of mucosal tissues. Human alpha-defensin (HD) 6 is highly expressed by secretory Paneth cells of the small intestine. However, in contrast to the other defensins, it lacks appreciable bactericidal activity. Nevertheless, we report here that HD6 affords protection against invasion by enteric bacterial pathogens in vitro and in vivo. After stochastic binding to bacterial surface proteins, HD6 undergoes ordered self-assembly to form fibrils and nanonets that surround and entangle bacteria. This self-assembly mechanism occurs in vivo, requires histidine-27, and is consistent with x-ray crystallography data. These findings support a key role for HD6 in protecting the small intestine against invasion by diverse enteric pathogens and may explain the conservation of HD6 throughout Hominidae evolution.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4332406/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4332406/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chu, Hiutung -- Pazgier, Marzena -- Jung, Grace -- Nuccio, Sean-Paul -- Castillo, Patricia A -- de Jong, Maarten F -- Winter, Maria G -- Winter, Sebastian E -- Wehkamp, Jan -- Shen, Bo -- Salzman, Nita H -- Underwood, Mark A -- Tsolis, Renee M -- Young, Glenn M -- Lu, Wuyuan -- Lehrer, Robert I -- Baumler, Andreas J -- Bevins, Charles L -- AI032738/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI040124/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI044170/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI050843/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI057757/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI070726/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI072732/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI073120/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI076246/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI082320/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI088122/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- HD059127/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI032738/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI050843/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI057757/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI076246/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM099526/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T32AI060555/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jul 27;337(6093):477-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1218831. Epub 2012 Jun 21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22722251" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adhesins, Bacterial/metabolism
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Animals
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Bacterial Proteins/metabolism
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Cell Line
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Humans
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*Immunity, Innate
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*Immunity, Mucosal
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Intestinal Mucosa/immunology/microbiology/ultrastructure
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Intestine, Small/*immunology/microbiology/ultrastructure
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Macromolecular Substances/chemistry/immunology/metabolism
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Mice
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Mice, Transgenic
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Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
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Models, Molecular
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Nanostructures
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Paneth Cells/immunology/metabolism
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Peptides/chemistry/metabolism
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Protein Binding
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Protein Multimerization
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Protein Structure, Quaternary
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Salmonella Infections, Animal/immunology/microbiology
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Salmonella typhimurium/immunology/pathogenicity/ultrastructure
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Yersinia enterocolitica/immunology/pathogenicity
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alpha-Defensins/*chemistry/immunology/*metabolism
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env Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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