Journal
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 1798, Issue 2, Pages 228-234Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.08.018
Keywords
Piscidin; Structure-function relationship; Solid-state NMR; Peptide dynamics; Chemical shift anisotropy; Water-bilayer interface
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [CHE-0832571]
- Research Corporation the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
- NIH [GM-64676]
- Cooperative Agreement [DMR-0084173]
- State of Florida
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0832571] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Antimicrobial peptides, which play multiple host-defense roles, have garnered increased experimental focus because of their potential applications in the pharmaceutical and food production industries. While their mechanisms of action are richly debated, models that have been advanced share modes of peptide-lipid interactions that require peptide dynamics. Before the highly cooperative and specific events suggested in these models take place, peptides must undergo an important process of migration along the membrane surface and delivery from their site of binding on the membrane to the actual site of functional performance. This phenomenon, which contributes significantly to antimicrobial function, is poorly understood, largely due to a lack of experimental and computational tools needed to assess it. Here, we use N-15 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance to obtain molecular level data on the motions of piscidin's amphipathic helices on the surface of phospholipid bilayers. The studies presented here may help contribute to a better understanding of the speed at which the events that lead to antimicrobial response take place. Specifically, from the perspective of the kinetics of cellular processes, we discuss the possibility that piscidins and perhaps many other amphipathic antimicrobial peptides active on the membrane surface may represent a class of fast scavengers rather than static polypeptides attached to the water-lipid interface. (c) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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