Chemotherapeutic activity of synthetic antimicrobial peptides: correlation between chemotherapeutic activity and neutrophil-activating activity.

Abstract:

:The chemotherapeutic activity of three synthetic antibacterial peptides was investigated. KLKLLLLLKLK-NH2 and its D-enantiomer showed significant chemotherapeutic activity in MRSA-infected mice, whereas KLKLLLKLK-NH2, which showed the highest antibacterial activity among them in vitro, was found to have almost no ability to prevent MRSA infection. These results suggest that the antibacterial activity of peptides assessed in vitro does not necessarily correlate with their chemotherapeutic activity. We found that KLKLLLLLKLK-NH2 and its D-enantiomer, but not KLKLLLKLK-NH2, have the ability to activate human neutrophils to produce superoxide, suggesting that the prevention of MRSA infection by these peptides is not simply due to their direct bactericidal activity but to augmentation of the systemic defense mechanism mediated by neutrophils.

journal_name

FEBS Lett

journal_title

FEBS letters

authors

Nakajima Y,Alvarez-Bravo J,Cho J,Homma K,Kanegasaki S,Natori S

doi

10.1016/s0014-5793(97)01101-0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-09-22 00:00:00

pages

64-6

issue

1

eissn

0014-5793

issn

1873-3468

pii

S0014579397011010

journal_volume

415

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