期刊
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS
卷 1844, 期 3, 页码 527-534出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2013.12.017
关键词
Antimicrobial peptide; Docking calculation; Lipopolysaccharide; NMR; Tachyplesin I
资金
- JSPS KAKENHI [25-2798]
- Programme for Promotion of Basic and Applied Researches for Innovations in Bio-oriented Industry
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26440042, 13J02798, 24710240] Funding Source: KAKEN
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a major constituent of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria and is the very first site of interactions with antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). In order to gain better insight into the interaction between LPS and AMPs, we determined the structure of tachyplesin I (TP I), an antimicrobial peptide derived from horseshoe crab, in its bound state with LPS and proposed the complex structure of TP I and LPS using a docking program. CD and NMR measurements revealed that binding to LPS slightly extends the two beta-strands of TP I and stabilizes the whole structure of TP I. The fluorescence wavelength of an intrinsic tryptophan of TP I and fluorescence quenching in the presence or absence of LPS indicated that a tryptophan residue is incorporated into the hydrophobic environment of LPS. Finally, we succeeded in proposing a structural model for the complex of TP I and LPS by using a docking program. The calculated model structure suggested that the cationic residues of TP I interact with phosphate groups and saccharides of LPS, whereas hydrophobic residues interact with the acyl chains of LPS. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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