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Rational Design of Cyclic Antimicrobial Peptides Based on BPC194 and BPC198

A strategy for the design of antimicrobial cyclic peptides derived from the lead compounds c(KKLKKFKKLQ) (BPC194) and c(KLKKKFKKLQ) (BPC198) is reported. First, the secondary β-structure of BPC194 and BPC198 was analyzed by carrying out molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Then, based on the sequence pattern and the β-structure of BPC194 or BPC198, fifteen analogues were designed and synthesized on solid-phase. The best peptides (BPC490, BPC918, and BPC924) showed minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values <6.2 μM against Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae and Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vesicatoria, and an MIC value of 12.5 to 25 μM against Erwinia amylovora, being as active as BPC194 and BPC198. Interestingly, these three analogues followed the structural pattern defined from the MD simulations of the parent peptides. Thus, BPC490 maintained the parallel alignment of the hydrophilic pairs K1–K8, K2–K7, and K4–K5, whereas BPC918 and BPC924 included the two hydrophilic interactions K3–Q10 and K5–K8. In short, MD simulations have proved to be very useful for ascertaining the structural features of cyclic peptides that are crucial for their biological activity. Such approaches could be further employed for the development of new antibacterial cyclic peptides

This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) [grant numbers AGL2009-13255-C02-02/AGR, AGL2012-39880-C02-02 and AGL2015-69876-C2-2-R].

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Author: Díaz i Cirac, Anna
Torné, Maria
Badosa Romañó, Esther
Montesinos Seguí, Emilio
Salvador Sedano, Pedro
Feliu Soley, Lídia
Planas i Grabuleda, Marta
Date: 2020 February 15
Abstract: A strategy for the design of antimicrobial cyclic peptides derived from the lead compounds c(KKLKKFKKLQ) (BPC194) and c(KLKKKFKKLQ) (BPC198) is reported. First, the secondary β-structure of BPC194 and BPC198 was analyzed by carrying out molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Then, based on the sequence pattern and the β-structure of BPC194 or BPC198, fifteen analogues were designed and synthesized on solid-phase. The best peptides (BPC490, BPC918, and BPC924) showed minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values <6.2 μM against Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae and Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vesicatoria, and an MIC value of 12.5 to 25 μM against Erwinia amylovora, being as active as BPC194 and BPC198. Interestingly, these three analogues followed the structural pattern defined from the MD simulations of the parent peptides. Thus, BPC490 maintained the parallel alignment of the hydrophilic pairs K1–K8, K2–K7, and K4–K5, whereas BPC918 and BPC924 included the two hydrophilic interactions K3–Q10 and K5–K8. In short, MD simulations have proved to be very useful for ascertaining the structural features of cyclic peptides that are crucial for their biological activity. Such approaches could be further employed for the development of new antibacterial cyclic peptides
This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) [grant numbers AGL2009-13255-C02-02/AGR, AGL2012-39880-C02-02 and AGL2015-69876-C2-2-R].
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/372792
Language: eng
Publisher: MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
Rights: Attribution 4.0 Spain
Rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es/
Subject: Antibiòtics pèptids
Peptide antibiotics
Dinàmica molecular
Molecular dynamics
Relacions planta-microorganisme patogen
Plant-pathogen relationship
Title: Rational Design of Cyclic Antimicrobial Peptides Based on BPC194 and BPC198
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Repository: Recercat

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