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MICROORGANISMS
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8060867
Keywords
antimicrobial peptide; minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC); minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC); minimum haemolytic concentration (MHC); therapeutic index (TI)
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- Universidad Nacional de Colombia's Division de Investigacion y Extension Bogota (DIEB) [41569]
- Fundacion Instituto de Inmunologia de Colombia (FIDIC)
- Universidad del Rosario
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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been recognised as a significant therapeutic option for mitigating resistant microbial infections. It has been found recently thatPlasmodium falciparum-derived, 20 residue long, peptide 35409 had antibacterial and haemolytic activity, making it an AMP having reduced selectivity, and suggesting that it should be studied more extensively for obtaining new AMPs having activity solely targeting the bacterial membrane. Peptide 35409 was thus used as template for producing short synthetic peptides (<20 residues long) and evaluating their biological activity and relevant physicochemical characteristics for therapeutic use. Four of the sixteen short peptides evaluated here had activity againstE. coliwithout any associated haemolytic effects. The 35409-1 derivative (17 residues long) had the best therapeutic characteristics as it had high selectivity for bacterial cells, stability in the presence of human sera, activity againstE. colimultiresistant clinical isolates and was shorter than the original sequence. It had a powerful membranolytic effect and low potential for inducing resistance in bacteria. This peptide's characteristics highlighted its potential as an alternative for combating infection caused byE. colimultiresistant bacteria and/or for designing new AMPs.
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