Cutting Edge: Vitamin D-Mediated Human Antimicrobial Activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Dependent on the Induction of Cathelicidin1

By Philip T Liu, S. Stenger, Dominic Tang, R. Modlin. Journal of Immunology, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Microbiology, Parasitology

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• Vitamin D: Nutrient, Hormone, and Immunomodulator (2018, background): “Moreover, 1,25(OH)2D3 increases chemotaxis, autophagy, and phagolysosomal fusion of innate immune cells [27,28].”
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Success through dormancy (2012, background): “The positively charged CAMPs – cathelicidin, hepcidin, and ubiquitin-related peptides – gain their bactericidal activity by disrupting the negatively charged bacterial cell wall (Alonso et al., 2007; Liu et al., 2007; Sow et al., 2007).”
• Association Between Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level and Upper Respiratory Tract Infection in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2009, neutral): “001 Midwest 3672 47 (42-51) 16 (14-18) South 8245 67 (59-75) 24 (22-26) West 4456 41 (26-56) 17 (14-20) Current cigarette smoking Yes 4249 50 (46-54) 27 (25-30) .”