バンコマイシン耐性腸球菌は,抗生物質によって引き起こされた先天性免疫不全を悪用しています
Katharina Brandl1, George Plitas, Coralia N Mihu
1Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York, USA.
Nature
|August 30, 2008
まとめ
ブロードスペクトル抗生物質は,重要な免疫タンパク質であるRegIIIgammaを減少させ,危険なVRE感染を可能にします. Toll型受容体刺激によるRegIIIgammaの回復は,抗生物質耐性細菌と戦う方法を提供します.
科学分野:
- 微生物学 微生物学とは
- 免疫学 免疫学とは
- 胃腸内科 胃腸内科
背景:
- バンコミシン耐性腸球菌 (VRE) のような抗生物質耐性細菌感染症は,医療における大きな課題です.
- 抗生物質の使用がこれらの感染症を促進するメカニズムは,完全に理解されていません.
研究 の 目的:
- 抗生物質治療が抗生物質耐性細菌に対する腸内免疫防御に与える影響を調査する.
- 抗生物質療法とVREに対する感受性の増加を結びつける分子メカニズムを特定する.
主な方法:
- 腸内遺伝子発現の変化を評価するためにマウスの抗生物質治療.
- 腸内におけるバンコミシン耐性腸内細菌 (VRE) のコロニー化の定量化.
- 免疫反応を評価するために,リポポリサッカリド (LPS) でトール型受容体4 (TLR4) の刺激.
主要な成果:
- 抗生物質療法によりマウスの腸内レギIIIガマ (Reg3g) 発現が著しく低下しました.
- 減少したRegIIIgammaレベルは,VREコロニー化の増加と相関しています.
- 口服によるリポポリサッカリド (LPS) の投与により,RegIIIガマの発現が回復し,VRE.ウイルスに対する耐性が強化されました.
結論:
- RegIIIgammaの抗生物質誘発抑制は,VRE.のようなグラム陽性病原体に対する先天性粘膜免疫を損なう.
- トール型受容体をターゲットにすることは,粘膜の防御を回復し,抗生物質耐性感染症と闘うための潜在的な戦略です.
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