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In Silico Identification of Antimicrobial Peptides in the Proteomes of Goat and Sheep Milk and Feta Cheese

Milk and dairy products are a major functional food group of growing scientific and commercial interest due to their nutritional value and bioactive “load”. A major fraction of the latter is attributed to milk’s rich protein content and its biofunctional peptides that occur naturally during digestio...

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Autores principales: Tomazou, Marios, Oulas, Anastasis, Anagnostopoulos, Athanasios K., Tsangaris, George Th., Spyrou, George M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6958355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31546575
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proteomes7040032
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author Tomazou, Marios
Oulas, Anastasis
Anagnostopoulos, Athanasios K.
Tsangaris, George Th.
Spyrou, George M.
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description Milk and dairy products are a major functional food group of growing scientific and commercial interest due to their nutritional value and bioactive “load”. A major fraction of the latter is attributed to milk’s rich protein content and its biofunctional peptides that occur naturally during digestion. On the basis of the identified proteome datasets of milk whey from sheep and goat breeds in Greece and feta cheese obtained during previous work, we applied an in silico workflow to predict and characterise the antimicrobial peptide content of these proteomes. We utilised existing tools for predicting peptide sequences with antimicrobial traits complemented by in silico protein cleavage modelling to identify frequently occurring antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract in humans. The peptides of interest were finally assessed for their stability with respect to their susceptibility to cleavage by endogenous proteases expressed along the intestinal part of the GI tract and ranked with respect to both their antimicrobial and stability scores.
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spelling pubmed-69583552020-01-23 In Silico Identification of Antimicrobial Peptides in the Proteomes of Goat and Sheep Milk and Feta Cheese Tomazou, Marios Oulas, Anastasis Anagnostopoulos, Athanasios K. Tsangaris, George Th. Spyrou, George M. Proteomes Article Milk and dairy products are a major functional food group of growing scientific and commercial interest due to their nutritional value and bioactive “load”. A major fraction of the latter is attributed to milk’s rich protein content and its biofunctional peptides that occur naturally during digestion. On the basis of the identified proteome datasets of milk whey from sheep and goat breeds in Greece and feta cheese obtained during previous work, we applied an in silico workflow to predict and characterise the antimicrobial peptide content of these proteomes. We utilised existing tools for predicting peptide sequences with antimicrobial traits complemented by in silico protein cleavage modelling to identify frequently occurring antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract in humans. The peptides of interest were finally assessed for their stability with respect to their susceptibility to cleavage by endogenous proteases expressed along the intestinal part of the GI tract and ranked with respect to both their antimicrobial and stability scores. MDPI 2019-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6958355/ /pubmed/31546575 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proteomes7040032 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proteomes7040032
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