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Title: Design of short membrane selective antimicrobial peptides containing tryptophan and arginine residues for improved activity, salt-resistance, and biocompatibility
Authors: Saravanan, Rathi
Li, Xiang
Lim, Kaiyang
Mohanram, Harini
Peng, Li
Mishra, Biswajit
Basu, Anindya
Lee, Jong-Min
Bhattacharjya, Surajit
Leong, Susanna Su Jan
Keywords: DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering
Issue Date: 2013
Source: Saravanan, R., Li, X., Lim, K., Mohanram, H., Peng, L., Mishra, B., et al. (2014). Design of short membrane selective antimicrobial peptides containing tryptophan and arginine residues for improved activity, salt-resistance, and biocompatibility. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 111(1), 37-49.
Series/Report no.: Biotechnology and bioengineering
Abstract: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) kill microbes by non-specific membrane permeabilization, making them ideal templates for designing novel peptide-based antibiotics that can combat multi-drug resistant pathogens. For maximum efficacy in vivo and in vitro, AMPs must be biocompatible, salt-tolerant and possess broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity. These attributes can be obtained by rational design of peptides guided by good understanding of peptide structure-function. Toward this end, this study investigates the influence of charge and hydrophobicity on the activity of tryptophan and arginine rich decamer peptides engineered from a salt resistant human β-defensin-28 variant. Mechanistic investigations of the decamers with detergents mimicking the composition of bacterial and mammalian membrane, reveal a correlation between improved antibacterial activity and the increase in tryptophan and positive residue content, while keeping hemolysis low. The potent antimicrobial activity and high cell membrane selective behavior of the two most active decamers, D5 and D6, are attributed to an optimum peptide charge to hydrophobic ratio bestowed by systematic arginine and tryptophan substitution. D5 and D6 show surface localization behavior with binding constants of 1.86 × 108 and 2.6 × 108 M−1, respectively, as determined by isothermal calorimetry measurements. NMR derived structures of D5 and D6 in SDS detergent micelles revealed proximity of Trp and Arg residues in an extended structural scaffold. Such potential cation–π interactions may be critical in cell permeabilization of the AMPs. The fundamental characterization of the engineered decamers provided in this study improves the understanding of structure–activity relationship of short arginine tryptophan rich AMPs, which will pave the way for future de novo design of potent AMPs for therapeutic and biomedical applications.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102751
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19188
ISSN: 0006-3592
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25003
Schools: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering 
School of Materials Science & Engineering 
School of Biological Sciences 
Rights: © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Fulltext Permission: none
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