Barran Gervonne, Kolodziejek Jolanta, Coquet Laurent, Leprince Jérôme, Jouenne Thierry, Nowotny Norbert, Conlon J Michael, Mechkarska Milena
Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
Viral Zoonoses, Emerging and Vector-Borne Infections Group, Department of Pathobiology, Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinärplatz 1, A-1210 Vienna, Austria.
Antibiotics (Basel). 2020 Oct 20;9(10):718. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9100718.
Ocellatins are peptides produced in the skins of frogs belonging to the genus that generally display weak antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative bacteria only. Peptidomic analysis of norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions from Barbour 1906 and Heyer 1994, collected in the Icacos Peninsula, Trinidad, led to the purification and structural characterization of five ocellatin-related peptides from (ocellatin-1I together with its (1-16) fragment, ocellatin-2I and its (1-16) fragment, and ocellatin-3I) and four ocellatins from (ocellatin-1N, -2N, -3N, and -4N). While ocellatins-1I, -2I, and -1N showed a typically low antimicrobial potency against Gram-negative bacteria, ocellatin-3N (GIFDVLKNLAKGVITSLAS.NH) was active against an antibiotic-resistant strain of and reference strains of , , , and (minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) in the range 31.25-62.5 μM), and was the only peptide active against Gram-positive (MIC = 31.25 μM) and (MIC = 62.5 μM). The therapeutic potential of ocellatin-3N is limited by its moderate hemolytic activity (LC = 98 μM) against mouse erythrocytes. The peptide represents a template for the design of long-acting, non-toxic, and broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents for targeting multidrug-resistant pathogens.
眼斑肽是在属于某一属的青蛙皮肤中产生的肽,通常仅对革兰氏阴性菌表现出微弱的抗菌活性。对1906年巴伯(Barbour)和1994年海耶(Heyer)在特立尼达伊卡科斯半岛采集的去甲肾上腺素刺激的皮肤分泌物进行肽组学分析,从某物种中纯化并鉴定了五种与眼斑肽相关的肽(眼斑肽-1I及其(1-16)片段、眼斑肽-2I及其(1-16)片段、眼斑肽-3I)以及从另一物种中鉴定了四种眼斑肽(眼斑肽-1N、-2N、-3N和-4N)。虽然眼斑肽-1I、-2I和-1N对革兰氏阴性菌的抗菌效力通常较低,但眼斑肽-3N(GIFDVLKNLAKGVITSLAS.NH)对一株耐抗生素的某菌以及某菌、某菌、某菌和某菌的参考菌株具有活性(最低抑菌浓度(MIC)在31.25 - 62.5 μM范围内),并且是唯一对革兰氏阳性某菌(MIC = 31.25 μM)和某菌(MIC = 62.5 μM)有活性的肽。眼斑肽-3N的治疗潜力受到其对小鼠红细胞的中等溶血活性(LC = 98 μM)的限制。该肽代表了一种用于设计长效、无毒且针对多重耐药病原体的广谱抗菌剂的模板。