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ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH
卷 192, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2021.105104
关键词
Antimicrobial peptides (AMP); NK-lysin; Nervous necrosis virus; European sea bass; Teleost fish
资金
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [AGL2016-74866-C3-1-R]
- FEDER
- Agencia Espanola de Investigacion [PID2019-105522 GB-I00]
- Fundacion Seneca, Grupo de Excelencia de la Region de Murcia [19883/GERM/15]
- National Commission for Scientific & Technological Research Chile (FONDECYT) [1170379]
Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) are small molecules with potential antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal effects, with NK-lysin being a crucial molecule in both innate immunity and cell-mediated cytotoxic responses. Studies have shown that NK-lysin derived peptides (NKLPs) have direct antiviral activity against nervous necrosis virus (NNV) in vitro, making them a potential prophylactic treatment for European sea bass. More research is needed to understand the mechanisms of action and applicability of NKLPs in the aquaculture industry.
Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) comprise a wide range of small molecules with direct antibacterial activity and immunostimulatory role and are proposed as promising substitutes of the antibiotics. Additionally, they also exert a role against other pathogens such as viruses and fungi less evaluated. NK-lysin, a human granulysin orthologue, possess a double function, taking part in the innate immunity as AMP and also as direct effector in the cell-mediated cytotoxic (CMC) response. This molecule is suggested as a pivotal molecule involved in the defence upon nervous necrosis virus (NNV), an epizootic virus provoking serious problems in welfare and health status in Asian and Mediterranean fish destined to human consumption. Having proved that NK-lysin derived peptides (NKLPs) have a direct antiviral activity against NNV in vitro, we aimed to evaluate their potential use as a prophylactic treatment for European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), one of the most susceptible cultured-fish species. Thus, intramuscular injection of synthetic NKLPs resulted in a very low transcriptional response of some innate and adaptive immune markers. However, the injection of NKLPs ameliorated disease signs and increased fish survival upon challenge with pathogenic NNV. Although NKLPs showed promising results in treatments against NNV, more efforts are needed to understand their mechanisms of action and their applicability to the aquaculture industry.
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