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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/4324| Title: | Antimicrobial properties of derivatives of the cationic tryptophan-rich hexapeptide PAF26 |
| Keywords: | Tryptophan-rich cationic antimicrobial peptide AMP Antifungal peptide Phytopathogenic fungi P. digitatum B. cinerea M. grisea F. oxysporum |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Description: | The definitive version is available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0006291X Short antimicrobial peptides represent an alternative to fight pathogen infections. PAF26 is a hexapeptide identified previously by a combinatorial approach against the fungus Penicillium digitatum and shows antimicrobial properties towards certain phytopathogenic fungi. In this work, PAF26 was used as lead compound and its properties were compared with two series of derivatives, obtained by either systematic alanine substitution or N-terminal amino acid addition. The alanine scan approach underlined the optimized sequence of PAF26 in terms of potency and permeation capability, and also the higher contribution of the cationic residues to these properties. The N-terminal addition of amino acids resulted in new heptapeptides with variations in their antimicrobial characteristics, and very low cytolysis to human red blood cells. Positive (Arg or Lys) and aromatic (Phe or Trp) residue addition increased broad spectrum activity of PAF26. Noteworthy, addition of selected residues had specific effects on the properties of derivatives of PAF26. Work was supported by grants BIO2003-00927 and BIO2006-09523 from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC). B.L.-G. acknowledges the post doctoral program “Juan de la Cierva” of the Spanish MEC. Peer reviewed |
| URI: | http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/4324 |
| Other Identifiers: | Biochem Biophys Res Commun 354 (1): 172-177 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/4324 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.12.173 |
| Appears in Collections: | Digital Csic |
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