Bioactive peptides derived from the Limulus anti-lipopolysaccharide factor: structure-activity relationships and formation of mixed peptide/lipid complexes
✍ Scribed by Puig Mora; Manuela López De La Paz; Enrique Pérez-Payá
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1075-2617
- DOI
- 10.1002/psc.1033
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The design of peptides that would interact and neutralise bacterial endotoxins or LPS could have benefited from the analysis of comparative structure–activity relationships among close‐related analogues. Here, we present a comparative structural characterisation of selected peptides derived from the LALF obtained by single‐amino‐acid replacement, which differ in biological activity. The peptides were characterised in solution using nuclear magnetic resonance, circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopies. Membrane mimetic peptide interactions were studied using fluorescence resonance energy transfer with the aid of extrinsic fluorescent probes that allowed the identification of mixed peptide/lipid complexes. Copyright © 2008 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.