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Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Peptide Science
  • Drug Discovery

Background:

  • Antibiotic resistance is a growing global health concern, necessitating the search for novel antimicrobial agents.
  • Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), part of the innate immune system, are promising alternatives to conventional antibiotics.
  • Large-scale AMP discovery from public databases using deep learning remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and apply a bioinformatics workflow for discovering novel AMPs from large protein databases.
  • To identify potential AMPs with applications in the poultry industry.
  • To experimentally validate the antimicrobial activity of newly discovered AMP candidates.

Main Methods:

  • A novel AMP mining workflow was developed utilizing the AMPlify prediction tool.
  • The workflow was applied to the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot database, focusing on eukaryotic sequences.
  • Putative AMPs were prioritized based on structural similarity to known chicken AMPs, and selected peptides were synthesized and tested.

Main Results:

  • The workflow identified 8008 novel putative AMPs from eukaryotic sequences.
  • Forty AMP candidates were prioritized for potential poultry applications.
  • Thirteen out of 38 synthesized peptides demonstrated antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli and/or Staphylococcus aureus.

Conclusions:

  • The developed AMP mining workflow is effective for discovering novel antimicrobial peptides from large sequence databases.
  • The identified AMPs show potential for combating bacterial infections, particularly in the poultry sector.
  • This study highlights the utility of bioinformatics and deep learning in accelerating the discovery of novel antimicrobial agents.