Flo antibacterial peptide from the tropical tree Moringa oleifera: A template for novel antibacterial agents

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  • Florian Fisch
  • Nicolas Mermod
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2 RÉSUMÉ Flo, un peptide antibactérien isolé de l'arbre tropical Moringa oleifera: Une base pour de nouvelles substances antibactériennes Les peptides antimicrobiens sont essentiels à la survie d'organismes multicellulaires. Ils servent à lutter contre des microbes pathogènes et à contrôler les communautés commensales inoffensives. Jusqu'à aujourd'hui ces peptides n'ont pas permis aux microbes de développer de véritables résistances. Pour ces raisons, les peptides antimicrobiens seraient des substances intéressantes comme alternative aux antibiotiques classiques. La cible des peptides antimicrobiens est probablement la membrane cellulaire. Une structure amphipathique du peptide (charges positives séparées de parties hydrophobiques) est considéré essentielle pour l'activité. Son interaction avec les lipides membranaires (eux-mêmes amphipathiques) déstabilise la membrane, ce qui peut aller d'un simple changement de la perméabilité jusqu'à la rupture complète de la membrane. SUMMARY Antimicrobial peptides represent an important mechanism of innate immunity and are necessary for the survival of multicellular organisms. Biotechnically produced, antimicrobial peptides provide a powerful tool for treating infections with bacterial strains resistant against multiple common antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides are reported to act on membranes with hydrophobic and positively charged patches. "Flo" is an antibacterial peptide isolated from seeds of a tropical tree (Moringa oleifera Lam.). The goals of this study were to elucidate the mechanism of action of Flo and to find short fully active Flo derived peptides that may be produced at a large scale. Results show that a hydrophobic loop and stabilising α-helices are key factors to the antibacterial activity. In this study, we propose a simple model for the structural requirements of antibacterial peptides and we report the finding of a very short, highly active sub fragment that improves the antibacterial activity of Flo by a factor of 1000.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005