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Topical treatment with the bacterium-derived c-Met agonist InlB321/15 accelerates healing in the abrasion wound mouse model

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Studies of factors affecting wound-healing rates are encouraged by a critical need for new treatments to manage an increasing burden of non-healing wounds. The InlB protein produced by the Gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is an agonist of the tyrosine kinase receptor c-Met and a functional analog of the hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), which is a mammalian ligand of c-Met. The recombinant InlB321 protein, which is the c-Met-binding InlB domain (amino acids 31–321), was cloned from the L. monocytogenes serovar 4b clinical strain VIMHA015 and serovar 1/2a strain EGDe (InlB321/15 and InlB321/EGDe, respectively). Both InlB321 variants stimulated proliferation of endothelial HUVEC cells. InlB321/15 was more active in Erk1/2 phosphorylation assay, and more potent than InlB321/EGDe in the 2D-scratch wound-healing assay. Scratch closure reached 86%, 29% and 72% for InlB321/15, InlB321/EGDe and HGF, respectively, 72 h post-wounding (p < 0.05). Topically applied glycerol-mixed InlB321/15 (300 µg ml− 1) increased abrasion wound-healing rates in mice. The 50% wound closing time (CT50) was reduced by InlB321/15 (4.18 ± 0.91 days; CI: 3.05; 5.31) compared with control animals (5.51 ± 1.21 days; CI: 4.01; 7.01; p < 0.05). Taken together, obtained results suggested a potential of InlB321/15 as a means of accelerating wound healing.

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The work was supported by Russian Science Foundation to S.E. (Grant no. 16-15-00091).

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    Yaroslava M. Chalenko, Elena V. Sysolyatina, Konstantin A. Sobyanin, Marina R. Kapkaeva, Alexandra Lavrikova, Egor Kalinin, Olga N. Scheglovitova & Svetlana A. Ermolaeva

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Chalenko, Y.M., Sysolyatina, E.V., Sobyanin, K.A. et al. Topical treatment with the bacterium-derived c-Met agonist InlB321/15 accelerates healing in the abrasion wound mouse model. Arch Dermatol Res 310, 849–856 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00403-018-1870-4

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