期刊
MOLECULES
卷 22, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules22060987
关键词
bovine lactoferricin; antibacterial activity; synthetic peptides; branched peptides; E. coli; S. aureus
资金
- COLCIENCIAS [110165843141, 678-2014]
Peptides derived from LfcinB were designed and synthesized, and their antibacterial activity was tested against Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923. Specifically, a peptide library was constructed by systemically removing the flanking residues (N or C-terminal) of Lfcin 17-31 ((17)FKCRRWQWRMKKLGA(31)), maintaining in all peptides the (20)RRWQWR(25) sequence that corresponds to the minimal antimicrobial motif. For this research, also included were (i) a peptide containing an Ala instead of Cys ([Ala(19)]-LfcinB 17-31) and (ii) polyvalent peptides containing the RRWQWR sequence and a non-natural amino acid (aminocaproic acid). We established that the lineal peptides LfcinB 17-25 and LfcinB 17-26 exhibited the greatest activity against E. coli ATCC 25922 and S. aureus ATCC 25923, respectively. On the other hand, polyvalent peptides, a dimer and a tetramer, exhibited the greatest antibacterial activity, indicating that multiple copies of the sequence increase the activity. Our results suggest that the dimeric and tetrameric sequence forms potentiate the antibacterial activity of lineal sequences that have exhibited moderate antibacterial activity.
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