59 results about "Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides" patented technology

The invention relates to the field of genetic engineering, in particular to a method for effectively expressing cationic antibacterial peptides in pichia pastoris. In the method, the cationic antibacterial peptides can be driven to be expressed by acid enzyme; a large amount of acidic amino acid of the acid enzyme can neutralize the alkaline amino acid of the cationic antibacterial peptides to keep the cationic antibacterial peptides out of the attack of host protease; the yield of antibacterial peptides can be judged directly by the activity of expressed recombinase; moreover, expressed products and the antibacterial peptides can be directly applied at the same time.

The invention discloses a micromolecule synthesized anti-microbial peptide, as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The sequence of a cationic anti-microbial peptide is SQ1: R-W-W-R-F-NH2 (Arg-Arg-Trp-Trp-Arg-NH2), and the preparation method is the solid-phase chemosynthesis method. The micromolecule synthesized anti-microbial peptide has broad-spectrum cytotoxicity to gram-positive bacteria and gram-negative bacteria, has stronger bactericidal activity than a natural anti-microbial peptide, is simple in structure, convenient for artificial synthesis without any modification and connection, has the advantages of small hemolytic toxicity and no poison effects on animal and plant cells, and has an important value in development and application of antimicrobial agents.

The invention belongs to the field of medicines and specifically relates to a set of cation antibacterial peptides with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity, their preparation method and an application thereof. The general formula of an amino acid sequence of the cation antibacterial peptides provided by the invention is X-(C)m-(B)n-His-X.

An anionic antibacterial peptide used as the medicine for treating the diseases caused by gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and fungus is composed of an alkaline amino acid cluster consisting of 2-4 continuous alkaline amino acids and a neutral amino acid fragment consisting of 8-9 neutral amino acids. It has high antibacterial activity and low hemolytic activity.

The invention discloses a method for representing activity relationships of antibacterial proteins or polypeptides. The method is characterized in that starting from 85 structural parameters and topological indexes of representation molecules, a characteristic descriptor comprising 166 amino acid systems is obtained through principle component analysis (PCA), namely a principle component score vector of structural and topological variable (VSTPV).. The VSTPV is applied to study of the quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) of 101 antibacterial cationic peptides and 28 hydrolyzed bovine lactoferricins (BPPs), the models have better fitting and forecasting capabilities, and the cross validation related coefficients and related coefficients are above 0.70. The study shows that the VSTPV can well represent coded and uncoded amino acids and establish polypeptides with stronger forecasting capabilities and derivative QSAR models thereof.

A cationic antimicrobial peptide (CAMP) conjugate is disclosed. The CAMP conjugate may be made by identifying a suitable carrier peptide; identifying a suitable antimicrobial agent; creating a conjugate by conjugating the peptide with the antimicrobial agent; and evaluating and refining the conjugate. The peptide may be short peptide based on the sequence of a CAMP, such as human β-defensin-3. The peptide can be directly connected to the antimicrobial agent or through a linker segment. The antimicrobial agent may be connected to the peptide or the linker segment through stable or cleavable bonding. The peptide may carry and facilitate the delivery of the conjugated antimicrobial agent to a microbe.

The invention discloses a method for obtaining escherichia coli genetic-engineered bacteria of recombinant hybrid cationic antimicrobial peptide CC. The principle of the method disclosed by the invention is as follows: bioinformatics technology and molecular biological technology are combined to select natural antimicrobial peptide with therapeutic potential, a molecular design of the antimicrobial peptide is carried out, the antimicrobial peptide is synthesized to a gene sequence after being translated, and the escherichia coli genetic-engineered bacteria of hybrid cationic antimicrobial peptide CC is constructed by such technical programs as cloning vector construction, expression vector construction, and the like. A DPP tripeptide sequence is arranged between a GST tag and the antimicrobial peptide, and the DPP tripeptide sequence is purified after being expressed. IPTG (Isopropyl beta-D-1-Thiogalactopyranoside) induction is replaced by lactose induction to reduce the cost and optimize the culture conditions and the culture medium composition, and the lactose induction is combined with fermentation. As shown in a biological activity identification result, the escherichia coli genetic-engineered bacteria has a broad application prospect in food, feed and aquaculture due to efficient antimicrobial activity, thermal stability and pH stability and very weak hemolytic activity.

The invention provides a group of novel artificially designed animal-derived cationic antibacterial peptides, which is synthesized on the basis of a structural analysis of a natural lactoferricin antibacterial peptide sequence, the series of the antibacterial peptide sequence is shown as the following: CQUT-a: Phe Arg Trp Trp Trp Gln Arg; CQUT-b: Arg Arg Gln Trp Phe Trp. The antibacterial peptides are obtained by using a solid phase chemical method. The animal-derived cationic antibacterial peptides have the advantages that antibacterial spectrum is wide, no modification or connection is required, the structure is simple and artificial synthesis is convenient. Experiment proves that both G<+>bacteria (gram positive bacteria) and G<->bacteria (gram negative bacteria) possess the advantages of substantial bacteriostasis and bactericidal activity, long continuance and no hemolytic toxin; the animal-derived cationic antibacterial peptides have important value on aspects of exploitation and application of medicines for treating bacterial infection diseases.

Endogenously produced cationic antimicrobial peptides are ubiquitous components of host defenses in mammals, birds, amphibia, insects, and plants. Cationic peptides are also effective when administered as therapeutic agents. A practical drawback in cationic peptide therapy, however, is the cost of producing the agents. The methods described herein provide a means to efficiently produce cationic peptides from recombinant host cells. These recombinantly-produced cationic peptides can be rapidly purified from host cell proteins using anion exchange chromatography.

The invention discloses construction of gene engineering bacteria for expressing recombinant cationic antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) G13 escherichia coli, and belongs to the technical field of gene engineering and biology. A fusion head gene is connected with an AMPs gene to construct recombinant plasmid and convert escherichia coli BL21 competent cells, so that the expression yield is improved, and more effective treatment is obtained. The invention aims to design a shorter fusion head which has higher hydrophobic property, and the C final fragment of the fusion head has more negative charges, so that the fusion head can protect small molecular target AMPs; the toxicity of the AMPs to host cells is neutralized; and the cationic AMPs comprise alpha spiral amphipathic AMPs with net positivecharges and contain nucleotide sequences SEQ ID: NO 1 and SEQ ID: NO 2. According to the construction method, DNA recombination and gene engineering technology such as restriction endonuclease cutting, ligase connection and the like are used.

The invention discloses an intelligent antibacterial nano-hydrogel bone fracture plate with a topological structure. The surface of a substrate is coated with composite micelles, wherein each composite micelle comprises a polyethylene glycol-co-acrylic acid microgel core which serves as inner core and an outer layer controlled release shell which is a pH sensitive polymethylacrylic acid microgel layer; the polyethylene glycol-co-acrylic acid microgel core and the pH sensitive polymethylacrylic acid microgel layer form intelligent charge gradient radial distribution; the composite micelle coating forms a topological antibacterial structure surface on stainless steel, titanium metal or titanium alloy bone fracture plate and is loaded with beta-defensin-1-3, lactoferrin 1-11, LL-37, histadine-rich protein analogues, endogenous antimicrobial peptide-1 and artificially synthesized cationic antimicrobial peptides. The intelligent antibacterial nano-hydrogel bone fracture plate with the topological structure is used as an intelligent simulation response mechanism of contact sterilization when the bacteria are generated on the surface of an orthopedic object and serve as a stimulation factor, so that osteoblasts can quickly grow on the surface of the orthopedic object; the bacterial adhesion is reduced; the bacteria are killed by antimicrobial peptide; target points used for controlling the formation of bacterial biofilms can be really restrained in the initial stage, thereby finally reducing the occurrence rate of orthopedic device related infections.

Use of at least one fusion protein comprising at least one Type 1 Ribosome Inactivating Protein, polypeptide B; and at least one polypeptide A which is a antimicrobial peptide and/or at least one Cationic AntiMicrobial Peptide, polypeptide C for the preparation of a medicament for treating a cancer and/or a microbial infection wherein the medicament is suitable for oral administration pre food intake.

A method of producing at least one specific pathogen free (SPF) non-human animal and/or a method of producing at least one specific pathogen resistant (SPR) non-human animal, the method comprising administration of a fusion protein to the surviving animal wherein the fusion protein comprises at least one polypeptide B which is a Type 1 Ribosome Inactivating Protein (RIP) or fragment thereof; and (i) at least one polypeptide A which is an Antimicrobial peptide; and/or (ii) at least one polypeptide C which is a Cationic Antimicrobial Peptide (CAP) or fragment thereof.

A fusion protein comprising at least one Type 1 Ribosome Inactivating Protein, polypeptide B; and at least one polypeptide A capable of viral entry inhibition; and/or at least one Cationic AntiMicrobial Peptide, polypeptide C.

The invention belongs to the field of medicine, and relates to a group of antimicrobial peptides and a preparation method thereof, particularly a group of cationic antimicrobial peptides, peptide derivatives and cyclic peptides with broad-spectrum antimicrobial activities, and a preparation method and applications thereof. The antimicrobial peptides have obvious bactericidal effects on Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Candida albicans, drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and have the characteristics of broad spectrum and high efficiency.

The invention discloses a cyclic peptide resistant to multi-drug resistant bacteria. The cyclic peptide resistant to the multi-drug resistant bacteria is characterized in that the amino acid sequenceis any of CPeptide-A, CPeptide-B, CPeptide-C and CPeptide-D, and the antibacterial cyclic peptide is obtained through cyclization of amido bonds formed by amino groups and carboxy groups of head and tail amino acids of any of the amino acid sequence. The four novel artificially designed cationic antibacterial peptides can be synthesized by adopting an Fmoc solid-phase chemical method, the operability is strong, and the cost is low. The cationic antibacterial peptides have broad spectrum killing activity against multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii, have stronger bactericidal activity than natural antimicrobial peptides, and have no toxic effect on animal and plant cells.

Disclosed herein are bacterial protease-activated prodrug compositions and methods of their use for the treatment and prevention of bacterial infection. Also disclosed are methods of reducing or eliminating defiant bacterial populations. An exemplary prodrug composition includes a cationic antimicrobial peptide conjugated to an anionic peptide with a protease cleavable linker substrate, wherein the antimicrobial peptide is inactive while it is in conjugation with the anionic peptide. Upon cleavage by the protease, the cationic AMP is released from the anionic peptide and can act upon bacteria. The protease is specific to the bacteria that are present in the sample or the subject, creating an auto-titrating mechanism wherein the AMP is released from the peptide only when there is bacteria present.