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Título : A novel synthetic peptide inspired on Lys49 phospholipase A2 from Crotalus oreganus abyssus snake venom active against multidrug-resistant clinical isolates
Autor : de Almeida, José R.
Mendes, Bruno
Lancellotti, Marcelo
Marangoni, Sergio
Vale, Nuno
Passos, Óscar
Ramos, María J.
Fernandes, Pedro A.
Gomes, Paula
da Silva, Saulo L.
Palabras clave : Antibacterial activity
Biomimetic peptide
Snake venom
Phospholipase A2
Fecha de publicación : 2018
Editorial : Elsevier
Citación : Almeida, J. R., Mendes, B., Lancellotti, M., Marangoni, S., Vale, N., Passos, Ó., … Da Silva, S. L. (2018). A novel synthetic peptide inspired on Lys49 phospholipase A2 from Crotalus oreganus abyssus snake venom active against multidrug-resistant clinical isolates. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 149, 248–256. doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.02.055.
Resumen : Currently, the evolving and complex mechanisms of bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics are increasing, while alternative medicines are drying up, which urges the need to discover novel agents able to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Lys49 phospholipase A2s (PLA2s) from snake venoms are multifunctional toxins able to induce a huge variety of therapeutic effects and consequently serve as templates for new drug leads. Hence, the present study was aimed at the synthesis of oligopeptides mimicking regions of the antibacterial Lys49 PLA2 toxin (CoaTx-II), recently isolated from Crotalus oreganus abyssus snake venom, to identify small peptides able to reproduce the therapeutic action of the toxin. Five peptides, representing major regions of interest within CoaTx-II, were synthesized and screened for their antibacterial properties. The 13-mer peptide pC-CoaTxII, corresponding to residues 115–129 of CoaTx-II, was able to reproduce the promising bactericidal effect of the toxin against multi-resistant clinical isolates. Peptide pC-CoaTxII is mainly composed by positively charged and hydrophobic amino acids, a typical trait in most antimicrobial peptides, and presented no defined secondary structure in aqueous environment. The physicochemical properties of pC-CoaTxII are favorable towards a strong interaction with anionic lipid membranes as those in bacteria. Additional in silico studies suggest formation of a water channel across the membrane upon peptide insertion, eventually leading to bacterial cell disruption and death. Overall, our findings confirm the valuable potential of snake venom toxins towards design and synthesis of novel antimicrobials, thus representing key insights towards development of alternative efficient antimicrobials to fight bacterial resistance to current antibiotics.
URI : http://dspace.ikiam.edu.ec:8080/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/206
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.02.055
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