期刊
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
卷 591, 期 -, 页码 314-325出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.02.019
关键词
Surfactant-like peptide; Gemini surfactant; Self-assembly; Antimicrobial activity; Hydrophobic drug
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81973274, 81000658]
A simple strategy was proposed to design gemini surfactant-like peptides, and a peptide named APK was successfully designed with strong self-assembly and hydrophobic encapsulation capabilities. Furthermore, APK showed potential for anti-tumor, anesthetic, and antimicrobial applications.
Recently, many kinds of gemini-type amphiphilic peptides have been designed and shown their advantage as self-assembling nanomaterials. In this study, we proposed a simple strategy to design gemini surfactant-like peptides, which are only composed of natural amino acids and can be easily obtained by conventional peptide sythnesis. Taking two prolines as the turn-forming units, a peptide named APK was designed. The petide has a linear sequence but naturally takes the conformation like a gemini surfactant. Compared with a single-tailed surfactant-like peptide A6K, APK showed much stronger ability to undergo self-assembly and to encapsulate hydrophobic pyrene. Several hydrophobic drugs including paclitaxel, doxorubicin, etomidate and propofol were encapsulated by APK, and the corresponding formulations showed anti-tumor or anesthetic efficacy comparable to their respective clinical formulations. Furthermore, APK could inhibit the growth of different microorganisms including E. coli, S. aureus and C. albicans. Etomidate and propofol formulations encapsulated by APK also showed strong antimicrobial activity. Taking APK as an example, our study indicated a straightforward strategy to design gemini surfactant-like peptides, which could be potential nanomaterials for exploring hydrophobic drug formulations with efficacy, safety and self-antimicrobial activity. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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