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Confirmation of the Disulfide Connectivity and Strategies for Chemical Synthesis of the Four-Disulfide-Bond-Stabilized Aspergillus giganteus Antifungal Protein, AFP

[Image: see text] Emerging fungal infections require new, more efficient antifungal agents and therapies. AFP, a protein from Aspergillus giganteus with four disulfide bonds, is a promising candidate because it selectively inhibits the growth of filamentous fungi. In this work, the reduced form of A...

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Autores principales: Váradi, Györgyi, Batta, Gyula, Galgóczy, László, Hajdu, Dorottya, Fizil, Ádám, Czajlik, András, Virágh, Máté, Kele, Zoltán, Meyer, Vera, Jung, Sascha, Marx, Florentine, Tóth, Gábor K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society and American Society of Pharmacognosy 2023
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10152477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36847642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.2c00954
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Sumario:[Image: see text] Emerging fungal infections require new, more efficient antifungal agents and therapies. AFP, a protein from Aspergillus giganteus with four disulfide bonds, is a promising candidate because it selectively inhibits the growth of filamentous fungi. In this work, the reduced form of AFP was prepared using native chemical ligation. The native protein was synthesized via oxidative folding with uniform protection for cysteine thiols. AFP’s biological activity depends heavily on the pattern of natural disulfide bonds. Enzymatic digestion and MS analysis provide proof for interlocking disulfide topology (abcdabcd) that was previously assumed. With this knowledge, a semi-orthogonal thiol protection method was designed. By following this strategy, out of a possible 105, only 6 disulfide isomers formed and 1 of them proved to be identical with the native protein. This approach allows the synthesis of analogs for examining structure–activity relationships and, thus, preparing AFP variants with higher antifungal activity.