Journal
PEPTIDES
Volume 28, Issue 7, Pages 1331-1343Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2007.05.001
Keywords
de novo peptide sequencing; amphibian skin secretion; antimicrobial peptide; phyllornedusa hypochondrialis azurea; cDNA cloning
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Studies conducted on amphibian skin secretions over the past 40 years have isolated and identified huge arrays of bioactive peptides, many of which have demonstrated potent antimicrobial activity. Such peptides are attracting increasing attention due to the growing problem of pathogenic microorganisms resistant to conventional antibiotics. The current study utilized a combined proteomic/genomic approach to facilitate the high throughput sequencing of five novel dermaseptins and four novel phylloseptins from the skin secretions of Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis azurea. Peptides were partially identified using Q-TOF MS/MS fragmentation and de novo sequencing, while a cDNA library was constructed from the lyophilized skin secretion. T-RACE reactions used primers designed for the highly conserved 5'-signal regions of previously deduced dermaseptin precursors. cDNA sequenced peptides were attributed to their respective fragmentation spectra to confirm the structure of the final processed peptides. Such an approach identified post-translational modifications in addition to deciphering isobaric amino acids. Several of the peptides were purified to homogeneity and displayed potent antimicrobial activity with minimum inhibitory concentrations starting at 0.4 mu M when tested against and range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria including Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Micrococcus luteus. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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