Advances in Host-Directed Therapies Against Tuberculosis

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-56907-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

This book discusses specific immune cell regulatory pathway(s), immune cell types, or other mechanisms involved in host responses to tuberculosis that can be potentially targeted for host-directed therapy (HDT). The pathways/mechanisms investigated are either protective – thus calling for pathway/factor enhancing drugs – or maladaptive – thus calling for pathway/factor inhibitory drugs. Discovery and development (pre-clinical and clinical) of candidate HDT agents will also be elucidated, as well as approaches for HDT of other diseases. The benefit to the reader will derive from learning about the biology of multiple host pathways involved in health and disease, how these pathways are disrupted or dysregulated during tuberculosis, and which druggable targets exist in these pathways. This book provides the reader with a roadmap of current and future directions of HDT against tuberculosis. Since the host pathways/factors involved in protective or maladaptive responses to tuberculosis are not disease-specific, information learned from the context of tuberculosis likely will be relevant to other infectious and non-infectious diseases.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karakousis, Petros C.

Gennaro, Maria Laura

Hafner, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Immunologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakotherapie, Psychopharmakotherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Infektionskrankheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction: An overview of host-directed therapies for tuberculosis

Daniel Frank, Robert Mahon



Section 2: Targeting immunometabolism

Chapter 2: Sirtuin deacetylases: Linking Mycobacterial infection and host metabolism

Lorissa Smulan, Hardy Kornfeld, and Amit Singhal

Chapter 3: The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1): an ally of M. tuberculosis in host cells

Natalie Bruiners, Valentina Guerrini, Maria Laura Gennaro

Chapter 4: HIF-1a as a potential therapeutic target for tuberculosis treatment

Qingkui Jiang, Maria Laura Gennaro, Lanbo Shi

Chapter 5: Nuclear receptors in host-directed therapies against tuberculosis

Eun-Kyeong Jo



Section 3: Enhancing anti-mycobacterial mechanisms

Chapter 6: Autophagy as a target for host-directed therapy against tuberculosis

Surbhi Verma, Raman Deep Sharma and Dhiraj Kumar

Chapter 7: Metformin: a leading HDT candidate for TB

Amit Singhal and Hardy Kornfeld

Chapter 8: Statins as host-directed therapy for tuberculosis

Noton K. Dutta, Petros C. Karakousis

Chapter 9: Antimycobacterial attributes of mitochondria: An insight into host defense mechanisms

Rikesh K Dubey, Apoorva Narain



Section 4: Targeting immune cells

Chapter 10: Conventional and unconventional lymphocytes in immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Paula Ruibal, Tom H.M. Ottenhoff, Simone A. Joosten

Chapter 11: Targeting inhibitory cells such as Tregs and MDSCs in the tuberculous granuloma

Sadiya Parveen, John R. Murphy, and William R. Bishai

Chapter 12: Targeting suppressor T cells

Léanie Kleynhans, Gerhard Walzl

Chapter 13: Neutrophil-mediated mechanisms as targets for host-directed therapies against tuberculosis

Über Autor(innen)

Petros C. Karakousis, M.D., is an infectious diseases-trained physician scientist and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focus is on host-pathogen interactions contributing to Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence and antibiotic tolerance. His laboratory is actively investigating the repurposing of clinically available agents with immune-modulatory properties as adjunctive host-directed therapy, in order to shorten the duration of TB treatment and improve lung pathology.

Maria Laura Gennaro, M.D., is Professor of Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey School of Medicine. Her laboratory studies mechanisms of adaptation expressed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and by the host macrophage during infection, with the goal of finding targets for therapeutic intervention. She has a specific interest in macrophage lipid metabolism, which is altered following M. tuberculosis infection, thereby promoting bacterial survival.

Richard Hafner, M.D., is an infectious diseases-trained physician and Chief of the TB Clinical Research Branch in the Division of AIDS at NIAID/NIH. Throughout his career, he has had a long-standing interest in advancing innovative host-directed therapies for infections. He has been involved in several clinical trials, authored various articles, and hosted multiple scientific meetings related to research to develop targeted HDTs for TB.