Detection of individual human neutrophil α-defensins (human neutrophil peptides 1, 2 and 3) in unfractionated gingival crevicular fluid—A MALDI-MS approach

Add time:09/08/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

The role of antimicrobial peptides is particularly important in the oral cavity where there is constant challenge by microorganisms. The α-defensins are a group of cationic peptides that comprise 30–50% of the total protein in azurophilic granules of human neutrophils. They include the human neutrophil peptides (HNP) 1, 2 and 3 which have almost identical amino acid sequences but differ in their biological activities. The amino acid sequence similarities of the defensins have made it difficult to unequivocally determine the presence of individual defensins using antibody-based techniques. However, by virtue of their cationic nature we postulated that the defensins would fly particularly well in mass spectrometry and that this characteristic would allow facile identification of individual HNPs in unfractionated gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) from periodontitis patients and healthy controls. Although there was variability in levels of defensins detected in periodontal health and disease, HNP-1 was always identified as the major peak in the triad and HNP-3 as the minor peak, lending support to the hypothesis that HNP-2 may arise by post-translational proteoyltic cleavage of HNP-3 rather than HNP-1. The finding that the defensins were more abundant in a higher proportion of the healthy sites studied could be linked to a more intact defensin barrier in periodontal health.

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