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  • Title: Species-specific regulation of innate immunity by vitamin D signaling.
    Author: Dimitrov V, White JH.
    Journal: J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol; 2016 Nov; 164():246-253. PubMed ID: 26369615.
    Abstract:
    While many global mechanisms of innate immune responses to pathogen threat are conserved over a vast range of species, the details of those responses and their regulation appear to be highly species-specific. An array of studies over recent years has revealed that hormonal vitamin D is an important regulator of innate immunity. In humans, the hormone-bound VDR directly induces the transcription of genes encoding antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), pattern recognition receptors and key cytokines implicated in innate immune responses. We find that the vitamin D response elements (VDREs) in a number of these human genes are highly conserved in a range of primates, but not present in rodent genes. Consistent with this, VDR target genes encoding AMPs human beta-defensin 2 (HBD2) and cathelicidin (CAMP) and the pattern recognition receptor NOD2 are induced by 1,25(OH)2D in human cells of epithelial or myeloid origin but not similarly regulated in mouse cells. In addition, while conditioned media from human epithelial cells treated with 1,25(OH)2D produced antimicrobial activity against E. coli and the lung pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, no such activity was detected in conditioned media from comparable 1,25(OH)2D-treated mouse epithelial cells. Given that other work has provided evidence that 1,25(OH)2D does control innate immune responses in mouse models of disease, we discuss the species-specific similarities and differences in 1,25(OH)2D-regulated innate immunity.
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