Transcriptional regulation of human defense peptides: a new direction in infection control
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Santi M. Mandal
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Sounik Manna
Abstract
While antibiotics remain as a major therapy against life threatening pathogenic infections, they often lead to side effects like rashes, gastrointestinal and central nervous system reactions to serious allergies or organ damage. These adverse effects alongside the emergence of multi-antibiotic resistant bacteria and the decline in the development of new antibiotics, have posed a serious impediment for effective antibiotic therapy. A paradigm shift in attitudes has led us to think about the possibility of controlling infections with the indigenous antimicrobial peptides synthesized by human beings. It has been observed that few transcription factors can stimulate more than three dozen defense peptides in the human system. Hence, during the infection stage, if we can induce these common factors, most of the infections could be healed from inside without the administration of any antibiotics. The efficiency of such peptides is being proven in clinical tests leading to the development of drugs.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Reviews
- Interaction of volatile organic compounds and underlying liver disease: a new paradigm for risk
- Five decades of research on mitochondrial NADH-quinone oxidoreductase (complex I)
- Modifications in small nuclear RNAs and their roles in spliceosome assembly and function
- Minireview
- Transcriptional regulation of human defense peptides: a new direction in infection control
- Research Articles/Short Communications
- Cell Biology and Signaling
- Down-regulated paxillin suppresses cell proliferation and invasion by inhibiting M2 macrophage polarization in colon cancer
- p21Waf1 deficiency does not decrease DNA repair in E1A+cHa-Ras transformed cells by HDI sodium butyrate
- MAC30 knockdown involved in the activation of the Hippo signaling pathway in breast cancer cells
- Inhibition of JAK2/STAT3 signaling suppresses bone marrow stromal cells proliferation and osteogenic differentiation, and impairs bone defect healing
- IL-37 affects the occurrence and development of endometriosis by regulating the biological behavior of endometrial stromal cells through multiple signaling pathways
- Resveratrol alleviates early brain injury following subarachnoid hemorrhage: possible involvement of the AMPK/SIRT1/autophagy signaling pathway
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Reviews
- Interaction of volatile organic compounds and underlying liver disease: a new paradigm for risk
- Five decades of research on mitochondrial NADH-quinone oxidoreductase (complex I)
- Modifications in small nuclear RNAs and their roles in spliceosome assembly and function
- Minireview
- Transcriptional regulation of human defense peptides: a new direction in infection control
- Research Articles/Short Communications
- Cell Biology and Signaling
- Down-regulated paxillin suppresses cell proliferation and invasion by inhibiting M2 macrophage polarization in colon cancer
- p21Waf1 deficiency does not decrease DNA repair in E1A+cHa-Ras transformed cells by HDI sodium butyrate
- MAC30 knockdown involved in the activation of the Hippo signaling pathway in breast cancer cells
- Inhibition of JAK2/STAT3 signaling suppresses bone marrow stromal cells proliferation and osteogenic differentiation, and impairs bone defect healing
- IL-37 affects the occurrence and development of endometriosis by regulating the biological behavior of endometrial stromal cells through multiple signaling pathways
- Resveratrol alleviates early brain injury following subarachnoid hemorrhage: possible involvement of the AMPK/SIRT1/autophagy signaling pathway
