| Literature DB >> 28863467 |
Shashank Gupta1, Laurene Cheung1, Supriya Pokkali1, Kathryn Winglee1, Haidan Guo1, John R Murphy1,2, William R Bishai1.
Abstract
Host-directed therapies that augment host immune effector mechanisms may serve as important adjunctive therapies for tuberculosis treatment. We evaluated the activity of denileukin diftitox in an acute mouse model of tuberculosis (TB) infection and analyzed the cellular composition and bacterial burden in lungs and spleens. These in vivo studies show that denileukin diftitox potentiates standard TB treatment in the mouse model, an effect which may be due to depletion of T-regulatory and myeloid-derived suppressor cells during TB infection. Our results indicate that denileukin diftitox and other suppressor cell-depleting therapies may be useful adjunctive, host-directed therapies for TB.Entities:
Keywords: Denileukin diftitox recombinant fusion protein toxin; Host-directed therapy; Immunotherapy; Tuberculosis
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28863467 PMCID: PMC5853937 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix208
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN: 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226