A method for enhancing the overall beneficial immune system response in a host that works in conjunction with the host's natural immune system response to simultaneously enhance the host's ability to eliminate infectious microbes while suppressing the toxicity of the immune system response to the host. The method utilizes the non-enzymatic formation of allicin in response to the localized generation of H2O2 by immune system cells (such as neutrophils) to simultaneously increase the antimicrobial effect while reducing the cytotoxicity to the host. It is shown that enzymes can be reversibly inhibited that would not normally be sensitive to deactivation by a thiol-disulfide exchange reaction. This results in part from the recognition that deactivation of SH dependant enzymes by allicin does not take place by the previously attributed mechanism of thiol-disulfide exchange reactions. Allicin, cysteine, and related organosulfur compounds have a variety of antimicrobial and immunomodulatory properties that work together with the host's immune system in the prevention and treatment of disease. Prophylactic and therapeutic treatment is provided by administering an allium-related organosulfur compound such that a localized thiosulfinate is caused to be non-enzymatically formed in response to localized generation of H2O2 by the activated immune system cells. Allicin, cysteine and related organosulfur compounds may be simultaneously delivered in an efficient manner through the use of protein-bound S-AllylMercaptoCysteine (SAMC) or similar prodrugs.
一种增强宿主整体有益免疫系统反应的方法,与宿主自然免疫系统反应协同作用,同时增强宿主消除感染微
生物的能力,同时抑制免疫系统反应对宿主的毒性。该方法利用免疫系统细胞(如中性粒细胞)产生的局部
H2O2而非酶促形成
大蒜素,以同时增加抗微
生物作用,同时减少对宿主的细胞毒性。研究表明,可以可逆地抑制通常不敏感于巯基-二
硫化物交换反应失活的酶。部分原因是因为认识到
大蒜素对SH依赖的酶的失活不是通过先前归因于巯基-二
硫化物交换反应的机制进行的。
大蒜素、半胱
氨酸和相关
有机硫化合物具有各种抗微
生物和免疫调节性质,与宿主的免疫系统一起在预防和治疗疾病方面发挥作用。通过给予与韭菜属植物相关的
有机硫化合物,使局部
硫代氧化物在被激活的免疫系统细胞产生的局部 的作用下非酶促形成,提供预防性和治疗性治疗。可以通过使用蛋白质结合的S-烯丙基巯基半胱
氨酸(S
AMC)或类似的前药同时有效地传递
大蒜素、半胱
氨酸和相关
有机硫化合物。