1d9o

From Proteopedia

SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF CECROPIN A(1-8)-MAGAININ 2(1-12) HYBRID PEPTIDE ANALOGUE(P3)

Structural highlights

1d9o is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Hyalophora cecropia and Xenopus laevis. Full experimental information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:	Solution NMR
Ligands:
Resources:	FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

MAGA_XENLA Antimicrobial peptides that inhibit the growth of numerous species of bacteria and fungi and induce osmotic lysis of protozoa. Magainins are membrane lytic agents.CECA_HYACE Cecropins have lytic and antibacterial activity against several Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.

Publication Abstract from PubMed

In order to elucidate the structure-antibiotic activity relationships of the peptides, the three-dimensional structures of two hybrid peptides, CA(1-8) - MA(1-12) and CA(1-8) - ME(1-12) in trifluoroethanol-containing aqueous solution were investigated by NMR spectroscopy. Both CA(1-8) - MA(1-12) and CA(1-8) - ME(1-12) have strong antibacterial activity but only CA(1-8) - ME(1-12) has hemolytic activity against human erythrocytes. CA(1-8) - MA(1-12) has a hydrophobic 310-helix of only two turns combined with one short helix in the N-terminus with a flexible hinge section in between. CA(1-8) - MA(1-12) has a severely bent structure in the middle of the peptide. These structural features as well as the low hydrophobicity of CA(1-8) - MA(1-12) seem to be crucial for the selective lysis against the membrane of prokaryotic cells. CA(1-8) - ME(1-12) has an alpha-helical structure of about three turns in the melittin domain and a flexible structure with one turn in the cecropin domain connected with a flexible hinge section in between, and these might be the structural features required for membrane disruption against prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. The central hinge region (Gly9-Ile10-Gly11) in an amphipathic antibacterial peptide is considered to play an important role in providing the conformational flexibility required for ion channel formation of the C-terminal hydrophobic alpha-helix on cell membrane.

NMR structural characterization of cecropin A(1-8) - magainin 2(1-12) and cecropin A (1-8) - melittin (1-12) hybrid peptides.,Oh D, Shin SY, Kang JH, Hahm KS, Kim KL, Kim Y J Pept Res. 1999 May;53(5):578-89. PMID:10424354^[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

References

↑ Oh D, Shin SY, Kang JH, Hahm KS, Kim KL, Kim Y. NMR structural characterization of cecropin A(1-8) - magainin 2(1-12) and cecropin A (1-8) - melittin (1-12) hybrid peptides. J Pept Res. 1999 May;53(5):578-89. PMID:10424354