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Antimicrobial Peptides Produced by Selective Pressure Incorporation of Non-canonical Amino Acids
Published on: May 4, 2018
Sequence diversity of the peptaibol antibiotic suzukacillin-A from the mold Trichoderma viride
Corina Krause1, Jochen Kirschbaum, Günther Jung
1Interdisciplinary Research Center, Department of Food Sciences, University of Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
Abstract:
From the culture broth of the mold Trichoderma viride, strain 63 C-I, the polypeptide antibiotic suzukacillin (SZ) was isolated. A peptide mixture named SZ-A was obtained by crystallization from crude SZ. Individual peptides from SZ-A were isolated by semipreparative HPLC and sequences were determined by HPLC-ESI-MS. The data confirm a general sequence of SZ-A published previously and in addition establish the individual sequences of 15 acetylated eicosa peptides with C-terminal alcohols. The major peptide SZ-A4 (21% of all peptides) shows the sequence:Ac-Aib-Ala-Aib-Ala-Aib-Ala(6)-Gln-Aib-Lx(9)-Aib-Gly-Aib(12)-Aib-Pro-Vx(15)-Aib-Vx(17)-Gln-Gln-Fol. Amino acid exchanges of the peptaibol are located in position 6 (Ala/Aib), 9 (Vx/Lx), 12 (Aib/Lx), 17 (Aib/Vx) and possibly at position15 (Val/Iva) (uncommon abbreviations: Aib (alpha-aminoisobutyric acid); Iva (D-isovaline); Lx (L-leucine or L-isoleucine); Vx (L-valine or D-isovaline); Fol (L-phenylalaninol)).
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