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Siano A, Humpola MV, de Oliveira E, Albericio F, Simonetta AC, Lajmanovich R, Tonarelli GG. Leptodactylus latrans Amphibian Skin Secretions as a Novel Source for the Isolation of Antibacterial Peptides. Molecules 2018; 23:molecules23112943. [PMID: 30423858 PMCID: PMC6278411 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23112943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2018] [Revised: 11/06/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Amphibians´ skin produces a diverse array of antimicrobial peptides that play a crucial role as the first line of defense against microbial invasion. Despite the immense richness of wild amphibians in Argentina, current knowledge about the presence of peptides with antimicrobial properties is limited to a only few species. Here we used LC-MS-MS to identify antimicrobial peptides with masses ranging from 1000 to 4000 Da from samples of skin secretions of Leptodactylus latrans (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Three novel amino acid sequences were selected for chemical synthesis and further studies. The three synthetic peptides, named P1-Ll-1577, P2-Ll-1298, and P3-Ll-2085, inhibited the growth of two ATCC strains, namely Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. P3-Ll-2085 was the most active peptide. In the presence of trifluoroethanol (TFE) and anionic liposomes, it adopted an amphipathic α-helical structure. P2-Ll-1298 showed slightly lower activity than P3-Ll-2085. Comparison of the MIC values of these two peptides revealed that the addition of seven amino acid residues (GLLDFLK) on the N-terminal of P2-Ll-1298 significantly improved activity against both strains. P1-Ll-1577, which remarkably is an anionic peptide, showed interesting antimicrobial activity against E. coli and S. aureus strain, showing marked membrane selectivity and non-hemolysis. Due to this, P1-L1-1577 emerges as a potential candidate for the development of new antibacterial drugs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alvaro Siano
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Bioquímica y Cs. Biológicas (FBCB), Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), Ciudad Universitaria, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina.
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), 1825 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Bioquímica y Cs. Biológicas (FBCB), Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), Ciudad Universitaria, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina.
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), 1825 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Proteomics Platform, Barcelona Science Park, Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
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- CIBER-BBN, Networking Centre on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, Barcelona Science Park, Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain;.
- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
- School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 4000 Durban, South Africa.
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- Cátedras de Microbiología y Biotecnología, Departamento de Ingeniería en Alimentos, Facultad de Ingeniería Química, U.N.L. Santiago del Estero 2829, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina.
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), 1825 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Cátedra de Ecotoxicología, Escuela Superior de Sanidad. FBCB, U.N.L. Ciudad Universitaria, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina.
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Bioquímica y Cs. Biológicas (FBCB), Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), Ciudad Universitaria, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina.
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Manzo RM, Cardoso MDLM, Tonarelli GG, Simonetta AC. Purification of two bacteriocins produced byEnterococcus faecalisDBFIQ E24 strain isolated from raw bovine milk. INT J DAIRY TECHNOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/1471-0307.12258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Ricardo M. Manzo
- Cátedras de Microbiología y Biotecnología; Departamento de Ingeniería en Alimentos; Facultad de Ingeniería Química (F.I.Q.); Universidad Nacional del Litoral (U.N.L.); Santa Fe Argentina
- Departamento de Química Orgánica; Universidad Nacional del Litoral (U.N.L.); Ciudad Universitaria; Paraje “El Pozo” Santa Fe Argentina
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- Cátedras de Microbiología y Biotecnología; Departamento de Ingeniería en Alimentos; Facultad de Ingeniería Química (F.I.Q.); Universidad Nacional del Litoral (U.N.L.); Santa Fe Argentina
- Departamento de Química Orgánica; Universidad Nacional del Litoral (U.N.L.); Ciudad Universitaria; Paraje “El Pozo” Santa Fe Argentina
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica; Universidad Nacional del Litoral (U.N.L.); Ciudad Universitaria; Paraje “El Pozo” Santa Fe Argentina
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- Cátedras de Microbiología y Biotecnología; Departamento de Ingeniería en Alimentos; Facultad de Ingeniería Química (F.I.Q.); Universidad Nacional del Litoral (U.N.L.); Santa Fe Argentina
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Spontón PG, Spinelli R, Drago SR, Tonarelli GG, Simonetta AC. Acetylcholinesterase-inhibitor hydrolysates obtained from ‘in vitro’ enzymatic hydrolysis of mannoproteins extracted from different strains of yeasts. Int J Food Sci Technol 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/ijfs.12940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Pablo G. Spontón
- Laboratorio de Péptidos Bioactivos; Dto. de Química Orgánica; FBCB-UNL; Pje. El Pozo, 3000 Santa Fe Argentina
- Cátedras de Microbiología y Biotecnología; Dto. de Ingeniería en Alimentos; FIQ-UNL; Stgo. del Estero 2829, 3000 Santa Fe Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Péptidos Bioactivos; Dto. de Química Orgánica; FBCB-UNL; Pje. El Pozo, 3000 Santa Fe Argentina
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- Instituto de Tecnología en Alimentos; FIQ-UNL; Stgo. del Estero 2829, 3000 Santa Fe Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Péptidos Bioactivos; Dto. de Química Orgánica; FBCB-UNL; Pje. El Pozo, 3000 Santa Fe Argentina
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- Cátedras de Microbiología y Biotecnología; Dto. de Ingeniería en Alimentos; FIQ-UNL; Stgo. del Estero 2829, 3000 Santa Fe Argentina
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Siano A, Húmpola MV, de Oliveira E, Albericio F, Simonetta AC, Lajmanovich R, Tonarelli GG. Antimicrobial peptides from skin secretions of Hypsiboas pulchellus (Anura: Hylidae). J Nat Prod 2014; 77:831-841. [PMID: 24717080 DOI: 10.1021/np4009317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The skin of many amphibians produces a large repertoire of antimicrobial peptides that are crucial in the first line of defense against microbial invasion. Despite the immense richness of wild amphibians in Argentina, knowledge about peptides with antimicrobial properties is limited to a few species. Here we used LC-MS-MS to analyze samples of Hypsiboas pulchellus skin with the aim to identify antimicrobial peptides in the mass range of 1000 to 2000 Da. Twenty-three novel sequences were identified by MS, three of which were selected for chemical synthesis and further studies. The three synthetic peptides, named P1-Hp-1971, P2-Hp-1935, and P3-Hp-1891, inhibited the growth of two ATCC strains: Escherichia coli (MIC: 16, 33, and 17 μM, respectively) and Staphylococcus aureus (MIC: 8, 66, and 17 μM, respectively). P1-Hp-1971 and P3-Hp-1891 were the most active peptides. P1-Hp-1971, which showed the highest therapeutic indices (40 for E. coli and 80 for S. aureus), is a proline-glycine-rich peptide with a highly unordered structure, while P3-Hp-1891 adopts an amphipathic α-helical structure in the presence of 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol and anionic liposomes. This is the first peptidomic study of Hypsiboas pulchellus skin secretions to allow the identification of antimicrobial peptides.
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- Alvaro Siano
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Bioquímica y Cs. Biológicas (FBCB), Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) , Ciudad Universitaria, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Müller DM, Carrasco MS, Simonetta AC, Beltramini LM, Tonarelli GG. A synthetic analog of plantaricin 149 inhibiting food-borne pathogenic bacteria:evidence for α-helical conformation involved in bacteria–membrane interaction. J Pept Sci 2007; 13:171-8. [PMID: 17266050 DOI: 10.1002/psc.828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Plantaricin-149 is a bacteriocin produced by Lactobacillus plantarum NRIC 149 (a LAB isolated from pineapple), which consists of a peptidic chain made up of 22 amino acid residues [Kato et al. J. Ferment. Bioeng. 1994; 77: 277-282]. In this work, a synthetic C-terminal amidated peptide analog denoted Pln149a was prepared by SPPS-Fmoc chemistry and the antagonistic activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria was tested. The secondary structure was studied by circular dichroism (CD) and the vicinity of the tyrosine residue by fluorescence spectroscopy under different conditions. We report the results of the interaction of Pln149a with reverse micelles prepared from the amphiphilic AOT in cyclohexane. Synthetic plantaricin was active against one strain of Staphylococcus aureus and four strains of Listeria genus at pH 5.5 and 7.4 and, like its natural variant, inhibited L. plantarum ATCC 8014. The data derived from spectroscopic measurements in presence of AOT reverse micelles suggest that the secondary structure of the peptide upon interaction is an alpha-helix. In this membrane model, the hydrophobic side of the alpha-helix is inserted into the micelles, leaving the lysines exposed to the solvent and interacting with the polar moieties of AOT. The fluorescence data point out that the N-terminal tyrosine residue is close to the micellar interface.
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- Diana M Müller
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Bioquímica y Cs. Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Thirty-seven strains of enterococci isolated from milk and milk products from Santa Fe (Argentina) region were tested for antagonistic activity against Vibrio cholerae 01 and non-01. Seven of 17 strains of Enterococcus faecalis, five of 10 strains of Enterococcus faecium and four of 10 strains of Enterococcus durans produced inhibition zones against the indicator species. The activity of the antibacterial compounds was completely destroyed by treatment with trypsin and pronase E in most cases (only the supernatant fluids of a few strains remained weakly active after the treatment), but was resistant to heat treatment at 100 degrees C during 10 and 30 min. When the 10-fold concentrated supernatant fluids were added to a fresh culture of sensitive cells it produced a rapid inactivation. According to these preliminary tests, different strains of enterococci produced compounds with slightly different antivibrio properties, and these compounds were heat-resistant and had a predominantly proteinaceous nature.
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- A C Simonetta
- Departamento de Biotecnología, Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Iacona VA, Simonetta AC, Renzulli PM. [Bacteria of the genus Bacillus in chicken carcasses and hamburgers]. Rev Argent Microbiol 1995; 27:21-7. [PMID: 7568865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The incidence of mesophilic aerobic sporulate bacteria in chicken carcasses and hamburgers was studied and the species of isolated sporulate bacteria were identified. Forty seven eviscerated carcasses from a processing plant of Entre Ríos province (Argentina) were analyzed together with fifty samples of hamburgers from two supermarkets of Santa Fe city. All carcasses resulted in contamination with aerobic mesophilic bacteria in the range from 6 x 10(3) to 1.2 x 10(6) CFU/ml liquid washed, and 94% them with sporulate bacteria, the threshold being under 100 CFU/ml (Figure 1). Hamburgers from both places resulted with aerobic mesophilic bacteria in 100% of the cases, in the range of 1 x 10(5)-3.3 x 10(6) CFU/g for supermarket A and 2.2 x 10(5) to 1.7 x 10(7) CFU/g for supermarket B; the incidence of sporulate bacteria was between 4.3 x 10(2) and 1.2 x 10(4) CFU/g for A, while the range for B was 6.2 x 10(2) and 3.8 x 10(4) CFU/g (Figure 2). Two hundred and fourteen Bacillus Genus strains were isolated and purified from the carcasses and five hundred and ninety five from hamburgers. B. subtilis and B. megaterium were most involved in carcasses; while B. licheniformis, B. subtilis and B. pumilus were in hamburgers from supermarket A and B. subtilis and B. pumilus were found in supermarket B (Table 1). The presence of B. cereus was also found, although in low levels, in all the samples (Table 1). Pollution levels with aerobic mesophilic bacteria are high in both kinds of samples.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- V A Iacona
- Cátedra de Microbiología General, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Garat MH, Basílico JC, Simonetta AC. [Production of non-volatile amines by strains of enterococci]. Rev Argent Microbiol 1989; 21:97-101. [PMID: 2486213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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During the last few years there has been great interest concerning the problems related with the presence of pressor amines in different kinds of cheese, specially since the "cheese syndrome" was made evident. Since the capacity of the bacterial groups involved in cheese manufacture to produce these amines has not yet been clarified, it was decided to study the production capacity of tyramine, tryptamine and histamine of enterococci strains probably used in the starter cultures. Forty-one enterococci strains were analysed cultivating them in milk and in milk with the addition of the corresponding aminoacids. It was determined that only low percentages of Streptococcus faecalis subsp. liquefaciens and Streptococcus durans strains (34% and 11% respectively) produced traces of tyramine and tryptamine in milk. But when cultivated in the presence of the corresponding aminoacids, a large percentage of strains of all the species produced tyramine in high concentrations and different percentages of them produced tryptamine in concentrations no higher than 200 ppm. All strains analysed proved to be unable to produce histamine. It can be concluded that there exists a strong probability for enterococci to produce tyramine and tryptamine in different concentrations specially when developed in the presence of the corresponding aminoacids.
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- M H Garat
- Departamento de Bioingeniería, Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Santa Fe, Argentina
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