Design, recombinant expression, and antibacterial activity of a novel hybrid magainin-thanatin antimicrobial peptide.
Prep Biochem Biotechnol
; 49(5): 427-434, 2019.
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ABSTRACT
Antimicrobial peptides are small molecule polypeptides with biological activity, which can avoid the drug resistance. Magainin and thanatin are antimicrobial peptides with a broad spectrum of inhibitory microbes, and the core sequence of magainin is linked to a core sequence of thanatin. Here, the hybrid magainin-thanatin (MT) antimicrobial peptide was designed through bioinformatics analysis. The recombinant MT antimicrobial peptide was successfully expressed and purified in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3). The molecular weight of the hybrid MT antimicrobial peptide was about 3.35 kDa. Moreover, the target protein indeed has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli DH5α, and Bacillus subtilis, with the minimum inhibitory concentrations 16.5, 20, and 9 µM, respectively. The rational designed hybrid MT antimicrobial peptide will hopefully provide large-scale fermentable antimicrobial peptides in the industrial production in the future.
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Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão
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Peptídeos Catiônicos Antimicrobianos
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Magaininas
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Antibacterianos
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2019
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