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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2015

In vivo efficacy of anuran trypsin inhibitory peptides against staphylococcal skin infection and the impact of peptide cyclization.

U Malik, O N Silva, I C M Fensterseifer, L Y Chan, R J Clark, O L Franco, N L Daly, D J Craik

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Antibacterial action mechanisms and mode of trypsin inhibitors: a systematic review.Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2022
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  3. Antibodies raised against a Sunn bug (Food science & nutrition · 2020
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8 authors.

U MalikInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
O N SilvaCentro de Análises Proteômicas e Bioquímicas, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
I C M FensterseiferCentro de Análises Proteômicas e Bioquímicas, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
L Y ChanInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
R J ClarkInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
O L FrancoCentro de Análises Proteômicas e Bioquímicas, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil S-Inova, Universidade Catolica Dom Bosco, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
N L DalyInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
D J CraikInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia d.craik@imb.uq.edu.au.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is a virulent pathogen that is responsible for a wide range of superficial and invasive infections. Its resistance to existing antimicrobial drugs is a global problem, and the development of novel antimicrobial agents is crucial. Antimicrobial peptides from natural resources offer potential as new treatments against staphylococcal infections. In the current study, we have examined the antimicrobial properties of peptides isolated from anuran skin secretions and cyclized synthetic analogues of these peptides. The structures of the peptides were elucidated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, revealing high structural and sequence similarity with each other and with sunflower trypsin inhibitor 1 (SFTI-1). SFTI-1 is an ultrastable cyclic peptide isolated from sunflower seeds that has subnanomolar trypsin inhibitory activity, and this scaffold offers pharmaceutically relevant characteristics. The five anuran peptides were nonhemolytic and noncytotoxic and had trypsin inhibitory activities similar to that of SFTI-1. They demonstrated weak in vitro inhibitory activities against S. aureus, but several had strong antibacterial activities against S. aureus in an in vivo murine wound infection model. pYR, an immunomodulatory peptide from Rana sevosa, was the most potent, with complete bacterial clearance at 3 mg · kg(-1). Cyclization of the peptides improved their stability but was associated with a concomitant decrease in antimicrobial activity. In summary, these anuran peptides are promising as novel therapeutic agents for treating infections from a clinically resistant pathogen.

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AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsAnuraCell SurvivalCyclizationFemaleHumansIn Vitro TechniquesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicrobial Sensitivity TestsModels, MolecularPeptidesPeptides, CyclicSkin Diseases, BacterialStaphylococcal InfectionsAnti-Bacterial AgentsPeptidesPeptides, CyclicSFTI-1 peptide, sunflowerTrypsin Inhibitors

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PMID25624332
PMCPMC4356830

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