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EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 36, Issue 8, Pages 1019-1027Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-007-0169-8
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antimicrobial peptides; cateslytin; circular dichroism; solid phase synthesis; MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry; solution NMR
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Cateslytin (bCGA (344)RSMRLSFRARGYGFR(358)), a five positively charged 15 amino-acid residues arginine-rich antimicrobial peptide, was synthesized using a very efficient procedure leading to high yields and to a 99% purity as determined by HPLC and mass spectrometry. Circular dichroism, polarized attenuated total reflectance fourier transformed infrared, polarization modulation infrared reflection Absorption spectroscopies and proton two-dimensional NMR revealed the flexibility of such a peptide. Whereas being mostly disordered as a dry powder or in water solution, the peptide acquires a alpha-helical character in the membrane mimicking solvent trifuoroethanol. In zwitterionic micelles of dodecylphophatidylcholine the helical character is retained but to a lesser extent, the peptide returning mainly to its disordered state. A beta-sheet contribution of almost 100% is detected at the air-water interface. Such conformational plasticity is discussed regarding the antimicrobial action of Cateslytin.
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