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Lipidation of Temporin-1CEb Derivatives as a Tool for Activity Improvement, Pros and Cons of the Approach

The alarming raise of multi-drug resistance among human microbial pathogens makes the development of novel therapeutics a priority task. In contrast to conventional antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), besides evoking a broad spectrum of activity against microorganisms, could offer additional...

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Autores principales: Kosikowska-Adamus, Paulina, Sikorska, Emilia, Wyrzykowski, Dariusz, Walewska, Aleksandra, Golda, Anna, Deptuła, Milena, Obuchowski, Michał, Prahl, Adam, Pikuła, Michał, Lesner, Adam
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8269107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34206444
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22136679
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author Kosikowska-Adamus, Paulina
Sikorska, Emilia
Wyrzykowski, Dariusz
Walewska, Aleksandra
Golda, Anna
Deptuła, Milena
Obuchowski, Michał
Prahl, Adam
Pikuła, Michał
Lesner, Adam
author_facet Kosikowska-Adamus, Paulina
Sikorska, Emilia
Wyrzykowski, Dariusz
Walewska, Aleksandra
Golda, Anna
Deptuła, Milena
Obuchowski, Michał
Prahl, Adam
Pikuła, Michał
Lesner, Adam
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description The alarming raise of multi-drug resistance among human microbial pathogens makes the development of novel therapeutics a priority task. In contrast to conventional antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), besides evoking a broad spectrum of activity against microorganisms, could offer additional benefits, such as the ability to neutralize toxins, modulate inflammatory response, eradicate bacterial and fungal biofilms or prevent their development. The latter properties are of special interest, as most antibiotics available on the market have limited ability to diffuse through rigid structures of biofilms. Lipidation of AMPs is considered as an effective approach for enhancement of their antimicrobial potential and in vivo stability; however, it could also have undesired impact on selectivity, solubility or the aggregation state of the modified peptides. In the present work, we describe the results of structural modifications of compounds designed based on cationic antimicrobial peptides DK5 and CAR-PEG-DK5, derivatized at their N-terminal part with fatty acids with different lengths of carbon chain. The proposed modifications substantially improved antimicrobial properties of the final compounds and their effectiveness in inhibition of biofilm development as well as eradication of pre-formed 24 h old biofilms of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus. The most active compounds (C5-DK5, C12-DK5 and C12-CAR-PEG-DK5) were also potent against multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 strain and clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Both experimental and in silico methods revealed strong correlation between the length of fatty acid attached to the peptides and their final membranolytic properties, tendency to self-assemble and cytotoxicity.
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spelling pubmed-82691072021-07-10 Lipidation of Temporin-1CEb Derivatives as a Tool for Activity Improvement, Pros and Cons of the Approach Kosikowska-Adamus, Paulina Sikorska, Emilia Wyrzykowski, Dariusz Walewska, Aleksandra Golda, Anna Deptuła, Milena Obuchowski, Michał Prahl, Adam Pikuła, Michał Lesner, Adam Int J Mol Sci Article The alarming raise of multi-drug resistance among human microbial pathogens makes the development of novel therapeutics a priority task. In contrast to conventional antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), besides evoking a broad spectrum of activity against microorganisms, could offer additional benefits, such as the ability to neutralize toxins, modulate inflammatory response, eradicate bacterial and fungal biofilms or prevent their development. The latter properties are of special interest, as most antibiotics available on the market have limited ability to diffuse through rigid structures of biofilms. Lipidation of AMPs is considered as an effective approach for enhancement of their antimicrobial potential and in vivo stability; however, it could also have undesired impact on selectivity, solubility or the aggregation state of the modified peptides. In the present work, we describe the results of structural modifications of compounds designed based on cationic antimicrobial peptides DK5 and CAR-PEG-DK5, derivatized at their N-terminal part with fatty acids with different lengths of carbon chain. The proposed modifications substantially improved antimicrobial properties of the final compounds and their effectiveness in inhibition of biofilm development as well as eradication of pre-formed 24 h old biofilms of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus. The most active compounds (C5-DK5, C12-DK5 and C12-CAR-PEG-DK5) were also potent against multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 strain and clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Both experimental and in silico methods revealed strong correlation between the length of fatty acid attached to the peptides and their final membranolytic properties, tendency to self-assemble and cytotoxicity. MDPI 2021-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8269107/ /pubmed/34206444 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22136679 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Kosikowska-Adamus, Paulina
Sikorska, Emilia
Wyrzykowski, Dariusz
Walewska, Aleksandra
Golda, Anna
Deptuła, Milena
Obuchowski, Michał
Prahl, Adam
Pikuła, Michał
Lesner, Adam
Lipidation of Temporin-1CEb Derivatives as a Tool for Activity Improvement, Pros and Cons of the Approach
title Lipidation of Temporin-1CEb Derivatives as a Tool for Activity Improvement, Pros and Cons of the Approach
title_full Lipidation of Temporin-1CEb Derivatives as a Tool for Activity Improvement, Pros and Cons of the Approach
title_fullStr Lipidation of Temporin-1CEb Derivatives as a Tool for Activity Improvement, Pros and Cons of the Approach
title_full_unstemmed Lipidation of Temporin-1CEb Derivatives as a Tool for Activity Improvement, Pros and Cons of the Approach
title_short Lipidation of Temporin-1CEb Derivatives as a Tool for Activity Improvement, Pros and Cons of the Approach
title_sort lipidation of temporin-1ceb derivatives as a tool for activity improvement, pros and cons of the approach
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8269107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34206444
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22136679
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