Discovery of Trp-His and His-Arg Analogues as New Structural Classes of Short Antimicrobial Peptides
作者:Rohit K. Sharma、Ravi P. Reddy、Werner Tegge、Rahul Jain
DOI:10.1021/jm900622d
日期:2009.12.10
Naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides contain a large number of amino acid residues, which limits their clinical applicability. In search of short antimicrobial peptides, which represent a possible alternative for lead structures to fight antibiotic resistant microbial infections, a series of synthetic peptide analogues based oil Trp-His and His-Arg structural frameworks have been prepared and found to be active against several Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacterial strains as well as against a fungal strain with MIC values of the most potent Structures in the range of 5-20 mu g/mL ((IC50 in the range of 1-5 mu g/mL). The synthesized peptides showed no cytotoxic effect in an MTT assay up to the highest test concentration of 200 mu g/mL. A combination of small size, presence of unnatural amino acids, high antimicrobial activity, and absence of cytotoxicity reveals the synthesized Trp-His and His-Arg analogues as promising candidates for novel antimicrobial therapeutics.
Discovery of Short Peptides Exhibiting High Potency against <i>Cryptococcus neoformans</i>
作者:Amit Mahindra、Nitin Bagra、Nishima Wangoo、Shabana I. Khan、Melissa R. Jacob、Rahul Jain
DOI:10.1021/ml500011v
日期:2014.4.10
Rapid increase in the emergence of resistance against existing antifungal drugs created a need to discover new structural classes of antifungal agents. In this study we describe the synthesis of a new structural class of short antifungal peptidomimetcis, their activity, and plausible mechanism of action. The results of the study show that peptides lie and Ware more potent than the control drug amphotericin B, with no cytotoxicity to human cancer cells and noncancerous mammalian kidney cells. The selectivity of peptides to fungus is depicted by transmission electron microscopy studies, and it revealed that lie possibly disrupts the model membrane of the fungal pathogen.
Synthesis and antimicrobial activities of His(2-aryl)-Arg and Trp-His(2-aryl) classes of dipeptidomimetics
作者:Amit Mahindra、Krishna K. Sharma、Dinesh Rathore、Shabana. I. Khan、Melissa R. Jacob、Rahul Jain
DOI:10.1039/c4md00041b
日期:——
In this communication, we report the design, synthesis andin vitroantimicrobial activity of ultra short peptidomimetics.