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Adjunctive Immunotherapeutic Efficacy of N-Formylated Internal Peptide of Mycobacterial Glutamine Synthetase in Mouse Model of Tuberculosis

Author(s): Shabir Ahmad Mir and Sadhna Sharma*

Volume 27, Issue 3, 2020

Page: [236 - 242] Pages: 7

DOI: 10.2174/0929866526666191028151615

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Abstract

Background: Host-directed therapies are a comparatively new and promising method for the treatment of tuberculosis. A variety of host pathways, vaccines and drugs have the potential to provide novel adjunctive therapies for the treatment of tuberculosis. In this connection, we have earlier reported the immunotherapeutic potential of N-formylated N-terminal peptide of glutamine synthetase of Mycobacterim tuberculosis H37Rv (Mir SA and Sharma S, 2014). Now in the present study, we investigated the immunotherapeutic effect of N-terminally formylated internal-peptide 'f- MLLLPD' of mycobacterial glutamine synthetase (Rv2220) in mouse model of tuberculosis.

Methods: The N-terminally formylated peptide, f-MLLLPD was tested for its potential to generate Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in murine neutrophils. Further, its therapeutic effect alone or in combination with anti-tubercular drugs was evaluated in mouse model of tuberculosis.

Results: The f-MLLLPD peptide treatment alone and in combination with ATDs reduced the bacterial load (indicated as colony forming units) in lungs of infected mice by 0.58 (p<0.01) and 2.92 (p<0.001) log10 units respectively and in their spleens by 0.46 (p<0.05) and 2.46 (p<0.001) log10 units respectively. In addition, the observed histopathological results correlated well with the CFU data.

Conclusion: The results of the current study show that f-MLLLPD peptide confers an additional therapeutic efficacy to the anti-tuberculosis drugs.

Keywords: Anti-tuberculosis drugs, formylated peptide, histopathology, immunotherapy, therapeutic effect, host-directed therapies.

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