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Antimicrobial activity of peptides extracted from camels' blood neutrophils against some pathogenic bacteria

    M.A. Mahmood M.A. Essa

Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2021, Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 33-37
10.33899/ijvs.2020.126239.1270

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Abstract

The aim of the current research was to isolate and purify antimicrobial cationic peptides (Amps) taken from camel blood and to study its antibacterial activity against some multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria Salmonella typhimurium, Bacillus subtilis. The results showed the possibility of obtaining these peptides from camel's white blood cells, and was separated by using Reversed-Phased-High Performance Liquid Chromatography (RP-HPLC) technical equipment. The results showed the presence of 21 absorption peaks of the isolated peptide extract. The two-stage-radial diffusions method was used to study the activity of the crude peptide against the studied bacteria. The results showed that these peptides were effective without any resistance. The best effect was on the Bacillus subtilis with a diameter of 31 mm inhibition, while the less effect was on the Salmonella typhimurium with a diameter of 20 mm.
Keywords:
    Antimicrobial peptide Multidrug resistant Radial diffusion method
Main Subjects:
  • Biotechnology
Introduction
 
Antimicrobial peptides (Amps) are defined as the total host defense peptides in the various organisms that enter into innate immunity, which response to any external or environmental effect (1,2). These peptides have a high ability to kill different types of Gram-positive and negative bacteria, including bacteria that showing resistance to antibiotics, as well as fungi, viruses and even cancer cells (3). These peptides are advanced therapeutic agents and differ from the used-antibiotics according to their affinity to be more bactericidal than bacteriostatic against bacteria, and the inability of bacteria to develop resistance towards them compared to antibiotics (4).
Many types of antimicrobial peptides are isolated from different sources, both plant and animal, or from some prokaryotic organisms. Mammalians blood is one of the best sources for isolation of these peptides. They are isolated from leukocytes, especially neutrophils, in some animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, deer and pigs (5,6). They are generally divided into two main groups: cationic peptides and anionic peptides (7,8). Positive types are the most effective group against the various pathogens of humans, which have two important groups: Defensins and Cathelicidins, that are divided into several secondary types according to their forms and structures (9).
Each group differ from other one in their shape, but both have positive charge, hydrophobic, and the same mechanism of action by binding to cell walls and plasma membranes with changing in their structures, engineering and loss functions (10-12). The negatively charged group (Anionic) of antimicrobial peptides is usually much smaller than positive peptides (Cationic) and has a little number of peptides that have weak and unclear antimicrobial activity against pathogens (13). Due to the importance of these antibacterial peptides as effective therapeutic alternatives, the present study aimed to extract these peptides from the white blood cells of camels and study their antimicrobial activity against Gram-examples of positive and negative bacteria that have multidrug resistance property.
Materials and methods
 
Bacterial isolates
Two types of isolated pathogenic bacteria Salmonella typhimurium and Bacillus subtilis which isolated and diagnosed previously in the Department of Biology at the College of Education for Pure Sciences at University of Mosul.
 
The animal used 
A single-humped camel Camels dromedarius was used in this search which is locally bred in Nineveh province to obtain blood sample.
 
Preparing cultivation media
The cultivation media used to study sensitivity of bacteria against Amps using the Two-stage radial diffusion method, were prepared from their initial components according to (14).
 
 Antibiotics
Ten disks of antibiotics were used-manufactured by Bioanalyse (Turkey). Cefotaxime (CTX 10µg), ciprofloxacin (CIP 10 µg), streptomycin (S 10 µg), doxycycline (DO 10 µg), ampicillin (AM 10 µg), amoxiclave (AMC 30 µg), norfloxacin (Nor 10 µg), tetracycline (TE 30 µg), gentamycin (GN 30 µg), naldixic acid (NAI 30 µg).
 
Collecting blood 
Approximately 300 ml of camel venous blood was collected, mixed directly with sodium citrate solution to prevent clotting 1:4 of blood and shaken well to prevent coagulation until use in subsequent experiments (15).
 
Isolating and extracting of antimicrobial peptides from leukocytes
The method was based on (6,14), where Amps were isolated from a camel's leukocytes. Briefly, the red blood cells were lysed by the addition of 0.83% ammonium chloride solution to the blood at a ratio of 3:1 (ammonium chloride: blood). White blood cells were collected by centrifugation at 700×g for 15 min, 4 ºC, re-suspended in phosphate buffer saline and sonicated to release the neutrophil granules. These granules were collected by centrifugation at 27,000 × g for 40 min, 4ºC, and suspended in 10% acetic acid and mixed overnight at 4ºC to extract the antimicrobial peptides. The solution containing the antimicrobial peptides was separated from the granules by centrifugation at 27,000 × g for 20 min, 4ºC. The extract was lyophilized, dissolved in 0.01% acetic acid and stored at -70 ºC until use.
 
Purifying cationic Amps using ion exchange technique 
The cationic Amps were purified from the solution according to (6,14), by ion-exchange chromatography technique. Amberlite resin IRC-50 (H) column was used, and the cationic Amps bound to the anionic resin and the non-cationic molecules were washed with 25mµ ammonium acetate, then the cationic Amps were eluted with 10% acetic acid. The solution was pumped through the column at a rate of 20ml/h. The cationic Amps was Lyophilized and kept until use.
 
Isolating the cationic peptides by using Reversed Phased-High Performance Chromatography
The method was conducted according to (14,16), and the cationic peptides were isolated from the camel by using HPLC (Japan / Shimadzu-2010A) with isolating column type and size R.P C18, with non-polar Stationary Phase, with polar Mobile phase, with gradual rate of Acetonitrile from 1 to 60%, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and distilled water.
 
Antimicrobial activity of isolated cationic peptides
The antibacterial activity of isolated cationic Amps against the bacteria was studied according to the updated (16) method, where the two-stage radial diffusions method of (17) was used.
 
The Antibiotics sensitivity test
Antibiotics sensitivity test against studied bacterial isolates was conducted according the modified method of Kirby-Bauer, (18).
 
Results
 
The Antibiotics sensitivity test
The results of the bacterial isolates sensitivity (Salmonella typhimurium and Bacillus subtilis) to a group of antibiotics were showed in table 1, where contrasts between these isolates can be noticed in the manner of their resistance for antibiotics.Bacillus subtilis showed resistance for most antibiotics under study, it was sensitive only for four antibiotic ciprofloxacin, tetracycline, gentamycin and amoxicillin with clavulanic acid, while Salmonella typhimurium was resistant for all types of antibiotics except gentamycin and ciprofloxacin. 
 
Purifying and isolating the cationic peptides
The results in Figure 1 show that there are a large number of peaks, which are due to the solution of these peptides, which can represent the different types of cationic peptides present in the extract, which is isolated from camel blood, it is observed to have 21 peaks of absorption or peptide type of cationic peptides, which differed from each other in retention time of each species, and the percentage of high and area. The larger peak appeared in the retention time of 1.523 minutes, with a percentage of high 26.281% and a percentage of area 22.077%, which is discriminate on other cationic peptides that have emerged in this solution, and was the smallest peak, which appeared in the retention time of 11.028 minutes and at the height of 0.018% and the percentage of the area 0.017%.
 
Table 1: Results of the studied bacterial isolates sensitivity (Diameter of inhibition in mm)
 
Antibiotics (µg) 
Bacteria
Bacillus subtilis
S. typhimurium
Cefotaxime (10)
R
R
Ciprofloxacin (10)
S(26)
S(24)
Streptomycin (10)
R
R
Doxycycline (10)
R
R
Ampicillin (10)
R
R
Amoxiclave (30)
S(25)
R
Norfloxacin (10)
R
R
Tetracycline (30)
S(25)
R
Gentamycin (30)
S(27)
S(22)
Naldixic acid (30)
R
R
S = Sensitive, R = Resistant 
 
 
 
Figure 1: Shows the absorption peaks of the isolated cationic peptides from camels' blood using RP-HPLC.
 
Antimicrobial activity of the isolated cationic peptides
The results in table 2 and figure 2 show that the cationic peptides isolated from the camel blood had an antiviral effect against the bacteria under study despite their multiple resistance to antibiotics.
 
Table 2: The antibacterial activity of the cationic peptides on pathogenic bacteria under study (Diameter of inhibition in mm)
 
Bacteria type
Bacillus subtilis
S. typhimurium
Inhibiting effect
31
20
 
The positive peptides isolated from the camel blood have a distinct effect on the two types of bacteria under study, and it is generally observed that the effect of these peptides was more effective in the Gram-positive bacteria compared to the gram-negative bacteria; it is noted that it has a greater effect on Bacillus subtilis with an inhibition zone 31 mm, compared to Salmonella typhimurium with an inhibition zone of 20 mm.
 
 
 
 
 
Figure 2: Antimicrobial activity of the isolated cationic peptides on pathogenic bacteria. (A) Bacillus subtilis (B) Salmonella typhimurium.
 
Discussion
 
In general, it is noticed that through these results the bacteria showed various levels of resistance for antibiotics. The emergence of bacteria resistant to traditional antibiotics is a common health problem and a serious challenge for specialists in this field, where the problem has increased dramatically and rapidly in recent decades with a decrease in the number of new antibiotics detected and increase the need for therapeutic alternatives (2,19). Cationic peptides were chosen because of the importance of this type of antibacterial peptides and their effective role in killing of many pathogenic microorganisms compared with other types of these peptides found in the blood of different animals. While, the non-cationic peptides are less significant and less important in the bacterial study and fewer and less diverse (7,13). This technique is based on the principle of ion exchange, gravitational processes and the opposite adhesion between the components of the insulating material with the materials used in the separation column and by the charge and its strength, the technique has been used by researchers in the field of isolation and purification of peptides from the blood of different animals (6,20). So it was observed that the large number of peptides isolated from the camel blood, with noting differences in the characteristics of the retention time and the proportion of the height and area and the emergence of the number of these peptides isolated from the camel blood may be due to the physiology of the camel and its environment where it lives, may reflect the evolution of its immunity and its mechanisms of resistance to pathogenic microorganisms if we consider that these peptides are isolated from white blood cells with defensive function in the body. The two-stage radial diffusion method was used for it is sensitive and important when studying the inhibiting effect of the isolated cationic peptides from camels' blood on two kinds of pathogenic bacteria (Salmonella typhimurium and Bacillus subtilis) which are known as resistant of antibiotics drugs as shown in table 1. Salmonella typhimurium is one of the bacterial serovars responsible for human and animal infections, as well as noted the increasing rate of antibiotic resistance of Salmonella typhimurium, and the ability to form endospore by Bacillus subtilis allows increasing of bacterial resistance and survival (21-23). These peptides have a positive charge that reacts and attracts the negative charge bacterial cell membranes and cell walls, as well as the presence of special receptors for these peptides on the bacterial cell walls. This correlation and interaction lead to major changes in the structure and engineering of bacterial cell walls and their membranes leading to their death, as well as other effective mechanisms for these peptides (24,25). Where (26) explained that the peptide (Bac5), which is considered from positive peptides that isolated from the blood of mammalian animals, had a significant effect in several types of gram-positive bacteria, and a less effect in the Gram-negative bacteria and this corresponds to the results obtained in this research.
These results may be due to the difference between the cell wall of gram-positive bacteria and gram-negative bacteria, and the effect of these peptides is mainly on the walls and cellular membranes of the bacteria. The increase in the effect of cationic peptides isolated from camel's blood may be due to the number of peptides in the blood of camels, where approximately 21 different peaks.
The importance of the current research results in the possibility of putting these peptides as drug alternatives to control the diseases associated with these studied bacteria and others, after conducting appropriate studies to ensure effective and safety, and there is a need for more comprehensive and detailed studies dealing with other types of animals as well as bacteria to show the importance of these peptides in the treatment of diseases associated with these bacteria, especially, those resistant to the antibiotics.
 
Conclusion 
 
The results of isolating and purifying of Amps showed the possibility of obtaining Amps from blood of camel, and the result of antimicrobial activity of these isolated peptides against studied pathogenic bacteria, showed that these peptides were effective and there was no resistance against them. 
 
Acknowledgements
 
The authors are very grateful to the University of Mosul, College of Education Pure Science, Biology Department, and College of Veterinary Medicine for their provided facilitates, which helped to improve the quality of this work.
 
Conflict of interest 
 
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. 
1.     Isolation and purification antimicrobial cationic peptides (AMP) from camels blood.
2.     Study antibacterial activity of (AMP) against some pathogenic bacteria. 
3.     The result showed the possibility of obtaining these peptides from camel's white blood cells. 
4.     The isolated (AMP) showed antibacterial activity toward studied pathogenic bacteria.
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(2021). Antimicrobial activity of peptides extracted from camels' blood neutrophils against some pathogenic bacteria. Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 35(1), 33-37. doi: 10.33899/ijvs.2020.126239.1270
M.A. Mahmood; M.A. Essa. "Antimicrobial activity of peptides extracted from camels' blood neutrophils against some pathogenic bacteria". Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 35, 1, 2021, 33-37. doi: 10.33899/ijvs.2020.126239.1270
(2021). 'Antimicrobial activity of peptides extracted from camels' blood neutrophils against some pathogenic bacteria', Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 35(1), pp. 33-37. doi: 10.33899/ijvs.2020.126239.1270
Antimicrobial activity of peptides extracted from camels' blood neutrophils against some pathogenic bacteria. Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2021; 35(1): 33-37. doi: 10.33899/ijvs.2020.126239.1270
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