Hydrophobic interactions modulate antimicrobial peptoid selectivity towards anionic lipid membranes

Hydrophobic interactions govern specificity for natural antimicrobial peptides. No such relationship has been established for synthetic peptoids that mimic antimicrobial peptides. Peptoid macrocycles synthesized with five different aromatic groups are investigated by minimum inhibitory and hemolytic...

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Veröffentlicht in:Biochimica et biophysica acta 2018-06, Vol.1860 (6), p.1414-1423
Hauptverfasser: Andreev, Konstantin, Martynowycz, Michael W., Huang, Mia L., Kuzmenko, Ivan, Bu, Wei, Kirshenbaum, Kent, Gidalevitz, David
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Zusammenfassung:Hydrophobic interactions govern specificity for natural antimicrobial peptides. No such relationship has been established for synthetic peptoids that mimic antimicrobial peptides. Peptoid macrocycles synthesized with five different aromatic groups are investigated by minimum inhibitory and hemolytic concentration assays, epifluorescence microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and X-ray reflectivity. Peptoid hydrophobicity is determined using high performance liquid chromatography. Disruption of bacterial but not eukaryotic lipid membranes is demonstrated on the solid supported lipid bilayers and Langmuir monolayers. X-ray reflectivity studies demonstrate that intercalation of peptoids with zwitterionic or negatively charged lipid membranes is found to be regulated by hydrophobicity. Critical levels of peptoid selectivity are demonstrated and found to be modulated by their hydrophobic groups. It is suggested that peptoids may follow different optimization schemes as compared to their natural analogues. [Display omitted] •Membrane specificity of peptoids is modulated by their hydrophobic properties via a two-step mechanism.•Antimicrobial and hemolytic effects is characterized by peptoid intercalation into zwitterionic and negatively charged lipids.•The maximized selectivity index implies the hydrophobic moieties to occupy between 35% and 50% of their molecular masses.
ISSN:0005-2736
0006-3002
1879-2642
1878-2434
DOI:10.1016/j.bbamem.2018.03.021