Title
Gomesin acts in the immune system and promotes myeloid differentiation and monocyte/macrophage activation in mouse
Date Issued
01 November 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Buri M.
Dias C.
Barbosa C.
Nogueira-Pedro A.
Ribeiro-Filho A.
Miranda A.
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Inc.
Abstract
Due to the cytotoxic effect of antimicrobial peptides (AMP) against several microorganism and tumor cells has been proposed their association with the immune system. However, just a few reports have shown this relationship. In this study, mice were treated with gomesin, a β-hairpin AMP that exhibit high cytotoxicity against bacterial and tumor cells. Different effects in the immune system were observed, such as, decrease of CD3+ in T lymphocytes (Control: 17.7 ± 1.4%; Gomesin: 7.67 ± 1.2%) and in hematopoietic progenitors and increase of hematopoietic stem cell (Control: 0.046 ± 0.004%; Gomesin: 0.067 ± 0.003%), B220+ B lymphocytes (Control: 38.63 ± 1.5%; Gomesin: 47.83 ± 0.48%), and Mac-1+F4/80+ macrophages (Control: 11.76 ± 3.4%; Gomesin: 27.13 ± 4.0%). Additionally, macrophage increase was accompanied by an increase of macrophage phagocytosis (Control 20.85 ± 1.53; Gomesin 31.32 ± 1 Geometric mean), interleukin 6 (Control: 47.24 ± 1.9 ng/mL; Gomesin: 138.68 ± 33.68 ng/mL) and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (Control: 0.872 ± 0.093 ng/mL; Gomesin: 1.83 ± 0.067 ng/mL). Thus, this report showed immunomodulatory activity of gomesin in the immune system of mice.
Start page
41
End page
45
Volume
85
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84986269723
PubMed ID
Source
Peptides
ISSN of the container
01969781
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by INFAR/UNIFESP Confocal and Flow Cytometry Facility and by grants (to E.J. P-G and A.M.) from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP. Proc. 2013/09068-7 , 2011/17584-0 ), and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq 473797/2013-5 ). M.V.B. was supported by a PhD’s fellowship from FAPESP (Proc. 2012/20989-4/2015/22901-5 ).
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