Cathelicidin

CAMP
Available structures
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Identifiers
Aliases CAMP, CAP-18, CAP18, CRAMP, FALL-39, FALL39, HSD26, LL37, cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide
External IDs OMIM: 600474 MGI: 108443 HomoloGene: 110678 GeneCards: CAMP
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

820

12796

Ensembl

ENSG00000164047

ENSMUSG00000038357

UniProt

P49913

P51437

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_004345

NM_009921

RefSeq (protein)

NP_004336.3

NP_034051.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 3: 48.22 – 48.23 Mb Chr 9: 109.85 – 109.85 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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Cathelicidin-related antimicrobial peptides are a family of polypeptides found in lysosomes of macrophages and polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), and keratinocytes.[3] Cathelicidins serve a critical role in mammalian innate immune defense against invasive bacterial infection.[4] The cathelicidin family of peptides are classified as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). The AMP family also includes the defensins. Whilst the defensins share common structural features, cathelicidin-related peptides are highly heterogeneous.[4]

Members of the cathelicidin family of antimicrobial polypeptides are characterized by a highly conserved region (cathelin domain) and a highly variable cathelicidin peptide domain.[4]

Cathelicidin peptides have been isolated from many different species of mammals. Cathelicidins were originally found in neutrophils but have since been found in many other cells including epithelial cells and macrophages after activation by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or the hormone 1,25-D, which is the hormonally active form of vitamin D.[5]

Characteristics

Cathelicidin

Crystal Structure Analysis of the Cathelicidin Motif of Protegrins
Identifiers
Symbol Cathelicidin
Pfam PF00666
Pfam clan CL0121
InterPro IPR001894
PROSITE PDOC00729
SCOP 1lyp
SUPERFAMILY 1lyp
OPM superfamily 236
OPM protein 2k6o

Cathelicidins range in size from 12 to 80 amino acid residues and have a wide range of structures.[6] Most cathelicidins are linear peptides with 23-37 amino acid residues, and fold into amphiphatic α-helices. Additionally cathelicidins may also be small-sized molecules (12-18 residues) with beta-hairpin structures, stabilized by one or two disulphide bonds. Even larger cathelicidin peptides (39-80 amino acid residues) are also present. These larger cathelicidins display repetitive proline motifs forming extended polyproline-type structures.[4]

The cathelicidin family shares primary sequence homology with the cystatin[7] family of cysteine proteinase inhibitors, although amino acid residues thought to be important in such protease inhibition are usually lacking.

Family members

Cathelicidin family components have been found in: humans, monkeys, mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, pandas, pigs, cattle, frogs, sheep, goats, chickens, and horses.

Currently identified cathelicidins include the following:[4]

  • Human: hCAP-18/LL-37
  • Rhesus monkey: RL-37
  • Mice:CRAMP-1/2, (Cathelicidin-related Antimicrobial Peptide[8]
  • Rats: rCRAMP
  • Rabbits: CAP-18
  • Guinea pig: CAP-11
  • Pigs: PR-39, Prophenin, PMAP-23,36,37
  • Cattle: BMAP-27,28,34 (Bovine Myeloid Antimicrobial Peptides); Bac5, Bac7
  • Frogs: cathelicidin-AL (found in Amolops loloensis)[9]
  • Sheep:
  • Goats:
  • Chickens: Four cathelicidins, fowlicidins 1,2,3 and cathelicidin Beta-1 [10]
  • Horses:
  • Pandas:
  • Tasmanian Devil: Saha-CATH5 [11]

Clinical significance

Patients with rosacea have elevated levels of cathelicidin and elevated levels of stratum corneum tryptic enzymes (SCTEs). Cathelicidin is cleaved into the antimicrobial peptide LL-37 by both kallikrein 5 and kallikrein 7 serine proteases. Excessive production of LL-37 is suspected to be a contributing cause in all subtypes of Rosacea.[12] Antibiotics have been used in the past to treat rosacea, but antibiotics may only work because they inhibit some SCTEs.[13]

Higher plasma levels of human cathelicidin antimicrobial protein (hCAP18), which are up-regulated by vitamin D, appear to significantly reduce the risk of death from infection in dialysis patients. Patients with a high level of this protein were 3.7 times more likely to survive kidney dialysis for a year without a fatal infection.[14]

Vitamin D up-regulates genetic expression of cathelicidin, which exhibits broad-spectrum microbicidal activity against bacteria, fungi, and viruses.[15][16] Cathelicidin rapidly destroys the lipoprotein membranes of microbes enveloped in phagosomes after fusion with lysosomes in macrophages.

See also

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. "Entrez Gene: CAMP cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide".
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Zanetti M (Jan 2004). "Cathelicidins, multifunctional peptides of the innate immunity". Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 75 (1): 39–48. doi:10.1189/jlb.0403147. PMID 12960280.
  5. Liu PT, Stenger S, Li H, Wenzel L, Tan BH, Krutzik SR, Ochoa MT, Schauber J, Wu K, Meinken C, Kamen DL, Wagner M, Bals R, Steinmeyer A, Zügel U, Gallo RL, Eisenberg D, Hewison M, Hollis BW, Adams JS, Bloom BR, Modlin RL (Mar 2006). "Toll-like receptor triggering of a vitamin D-mediated human antimicrobial response". Science. 311 (5768): 1770–3. doi:10.1126/science.1123933. PMID 16497887.
  6. Gennaro R, Zanetti M (2000). "Structural features and biological activities of the cathelicidin-derived antimicrobial peptides". Biopolymers. 55 (1): 31–49. doi:10.1002/1097-0282(2000)55:1<31::AID-BIP40>3.0.CO;2-9. PMID 10931440.
  7. Zaiou M, Nizet V, Gallo RL (May 2003). "Antimicrobial and protease inhibitory functions of the human cathelicidin (hCAP18/LL-37) prosequence". The Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 120 (5): 810–6. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1747.2003.12132.x. PMID 12713586.
  8. Gallo RL, Kim KJ, Bernfield M, Kozak CA, Zanetti M, Merluzzi L, Gennaro R (May 1997). "Identification of CRAMP, a cathelin-related antimicrobial peptide expressed in the embryonic and adult mouse". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272 (20): 13088–93. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.20.13088. PMID 9148921.
  9. Hao X, Yang H, Wei L, Yang S, Zhu W, Ma D, Yu H, Lai R (Aug 2012). "Amphibian cathelicidin fills the evolutionary gap of cathelicidin in vertebrate". Amino Acids. 43 (2): 677–85. doi:10.1007/s00726-011-1116-7. PMID 22009138.
  10. Achanta M, Sunkara LT, Dai G, Bommineni YR, Jiang W, Zhang G (2012). "Tissue expression and developmental regulation of chicken cathelicidin antimicrobial peptides". Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. 3 (1): 15. doi:10.1186/2049-1891-3-15. PMC 3436658Freely accessible. PMID 22958518.
  11. Peel E, Cheng Y, Djordjevic JT, Fox S, Sorrell TC and Belov K. Cathelicidins in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 35019 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep35019
  12. Reinholz M, Ruzicka T, Schauber J (2012). "Cathelicidin LL-37: an antimicrobial peptide with a role in inflammatory skin disease". Ann Dermatol. 24 (2): 126–35. doi:10.5021/ad.2012.24.2.126. PMC 3346901Freely accessible. PMID 22577261.
  13. Yamasaki K, Di Nardo A, Bardan A, Murakami M, Ohtake T, Coda A, Dorschner RA, Bonnart C, Descargues P, Hovnanian A, Morhenn VB, Gallo RL (Aug 2007). "Increased serine protease activity and cathelicidin promotes skin inflammation in rosacea". Nature Medicine. 13 (8): 975–80. doi:10.1038/nm1616. PMID 17676051.
  14. Gombart AF, Bhan I, Borregaard N, Tamez H, Camargo CA, Koeffler HP, Thadhani R (Feb 2009). "Low plasma level of cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide (hCAP18) predicts increased infectious disease mortality in patients undergoing hemodialysis". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 48 (4): 418–24. doi:10.1086/596314. PMID 19133797.
  15. Zasloff M (Jan 2002). "Antimicrobial peptides of multicellular organisms". Nature. 415 (6870): 389–95. doi:10.1038/415389a. PMID 11807545.
  16. Kamen DL, Tangpricha V (May 2010). "Vitamin D and molecular actions on the immune system: modulation of innate and autoimmunity". Journal of Molecular Medicine (Berlin, Germany). 88 (5): 441–50. doi:10.1007/s00109-010-0590-9. PMC 2861286Freely accessible. PMID 20119827.

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