摘要
内源性抗微生物肽(AMP)是进化上的先天免疫分子因子,在宿主防御中起关键作用。由于抗药性较低,AMPs作为常规抗生素的替代品受到广泛关注。在过去几年中,已经显而易见的是,AMP的生物学功能不仅仅是直接杀死微生物细胞。该综述主要集中在相对较小的动物宿主防御肽家族中,通过二硫键稳定β-发夹结构。它们的小尺寸,刚性结构,对蛋白酶的稳定性以及过多的生物功能,包括抗菌,抗真菌,抗病毒,抗癌,内毒素结合,代谢和免疫调节活性,使天然β-发夹AMP成为药物的有吸引力的分子基础 设计。
关键词: 抗菌肽,宿主防御,先天免疫,肽治疗,β-发夹结构,二硫桥。
Current Medicinal Chemistry
Title:A Therapeutic Potential of Animal β-hairpin Antimicrobial Peptides
Volume: 24 Issue: 17
关键词: 抗菌肽,宿主防御,先天免疫,肽治疗,β-发夹结构,二硫桥。
摘要: Endogenous antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are evolutionary ancient molecular factors of innate immunity that play the key role in host defense. Because of the low resistance rate, AMPs have caught extensive attention as possible alternatives to conventional antibiotics. Over the last years, it has become evident that biological functions of AMPs are beyond direct killing of microbial cells. This review focuses on a relatively small family of animal host defense peptides with the β-hairpin structure stabilized by disulfide bridges. Their small size, rigid structure, stability to proteases, and plethora of biological functions, including antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anticancer, endotoxin-binding, metabolism- and immune- modulating activities, make natural β-hairpin AMPs an attractive molecular basis for drug design.
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A Therapeutic Potential of Animal β-hairpin Antimicrobial Peptides, Current Medicinal Chemistry 2017; 24 (17) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0929867324666170424124416
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0929867324666170424124416 |
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