Analysis of protegrin structure-activity relationships: The structural characteristics important for antimicrobial activity using smoothed amino acid sequence descriptors

Fernandez, M. ; Caballero, J

Keywords: sequence, dynamics, acid, proteins, peptides, microorganisms, acids, antibiotics, antimicrobial, relationships, algorithms, molecular, descriptors, genetic, properties, amino, Structure-Activity, Smoothed

Abstract

Protegrin antimicrobial peptides (AMP) possess a high activity against a variety of microorganisms. In the present contribution, we analyse the structural requirements of protegrin analogues reported by Ostberg and Kaznessis (Peptides 2005; 26: 197) for having antimicrobial activity against several microbial species by using interpretable QSAR models. Models were carried out using multiple linear regression (MLR) combined with genetic algorithm (GA) and smoothed amino acid sequence properties were employed for characterizing the peptide dataset. The main advantage of smoothing process is the alteration of local amino acid properties by the properties of the amino acids in the closer neighbourhood. We report models encompassing different characteristics for describing the activities against different microbial species. Our results suggest the existence of specific mechanisms of action for protegrin analogues against different microbial species.

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Título según SCOPUS: Analysis of protegrin structure-activity relationships: The structural characteristics important for antimicrobial activity using smoothed amino acid sequence descriptors
Título de la Revista: MOLECULAR SIMULATION
Volumen: 33
Número: 8
Editorial: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Fecha de publicación: 2007
Página de inicio: 689
Página final: 702
Idioma: eng
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34548132041&partnerID=q2rCbXpz
DOI:

10.1080/08927020701236771

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