Shuang Yu, Boyan Jia, Ying Zhang, Yue Yu, Zhihua Pei, Hongxia Ma
As the important components of biological innate immunity, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) were found in a variety of organisms including insects, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, etc. However, high hemolytic activity, high toxicity, and poor stability of natural AMPs hinder serious their application as therapeutic agents. To overcome these problems, in this study we use PRRP as a central axis, and peptides were designed based on the sequence template XRRXXRXPRRPXRXXRRX-NH2 , where X represents a hydrophobic amino acid like Phe (F), Ile (I), Val (V), and Leu (L)...
January 17, 2024: Journal of Antibiotics