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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-020-04652-6
Keywords
Ocellatin; Alpha helical peptide; Antimicrobial resistance; Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs); Density Functional Theory (DFT); HOMO and LUMO; Monte Carlo simulation
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- [VIT/SG/2020-21/43]
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Ocellatin AMPs are considered as promising alternatives to conventional antibiotics, with ocellatin-1 peptide showing strong membrane permeability and potential therapeutic efficacy. Computational analyses indicated non-toxicity and membrane-permeable efficacy of ocellatin-1, making it a suitable scaffold for therapeutics. Trajectory analysis further revealed strong structural stability and important role in bacterial membrane penetration, highlighting the therapeutic potential of ocellatin-1 as an antimicrobial drug.
Ocellatin AMPs (antimicrobial peptides) are considered to be promising alternative therapeutics to conventional antibiotics. Three-dimensional (3D) structures of ocellatin-F1 with 25 residues have been reported to be potent in terms of bacterial membrane permeability. To investigate the influence of similar ocellatin peptides with 25 residues pertaining to antimicrobial effect, ocellatin-1, K1 and S1 peptides were modelled with ocellatin-F1 as template. Comparative analyses between these peptides were carried out, using computational approaches. From the results of in silico toxicity profile, all peptides were found to be non-toxic with no haemolytic activity. Further sequence analysis, net charge, hydrophobicity and hydrophobic moment revealed the membrane permeable efficacy of ocellatin-1 peptide. Besides, the investigation of peptide electronic structures through density functional theory and quantum chemical (HOMO and LUMO) calculations predicted ocellatin-1 to be a suitable peptide, which can be used as a scaffold for therapeutics. Furthermore, the determination of structural contours such as RMSD, RMSF and Rg through trajectory analysis revealed that ocellatin-1 exhibited strong structural stability. In addition, the trajectory analysis of elements of secondary structure illustrated the alpha helical conformations to be retained in all peptides, except ocellatin-1. On the aforementioned grounds, ocellatin-1 was found to possess the important role of peptide penetration of the bacterial membrane. This study becomes significant, since it is the first time where the structural importance of ocellatin peptides were explored in detail and the therapeutic potential of ocellatin-1 as a peptide-based antimicrobial drug have been theoretically revealed.
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