A Chimeric Cationic Peptide Composed of Human beta-Defensin 3 and Human beta-Defensin 4 Exhibits Improved Antibacterial Activity and Salt Resistance

Human beta-defensins (hBDs) play an important role in the host defense against various microbes, showing different levels of antibacterial activity and salt resistance in vitro. It is of interest to investigate whether can chimeric hBD analogs enhanced antibacterial activity and salt resistance. In...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in microbiology 2021-05, Vol.12, p.663151-663151, Article 663151
Hauptverfasser: Yu, Wenjing, Ning, Nianzhi, Xue, Ying, Huang, Yanyu, Guo, Feng, Li, Tao, Yang, Boning, Luo, Deyan, Sun, Yakun, Li, Zhan, Wang, Jianxin, He, Zhili, Cheng, Shiwei, Zhang, Xingxiao, Wang, Hui
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Zusammenfassung:Human beta-defensins (hBDs) play an important role in the host defense against various microbes, showing different levels of antibacterial activity and salt resistance in vitro. It is of interest to investigate whether can chimeric hBD analogs enhanced antibacterial activity and salt resistance. In this study, we designed a chimeric human defensin, named H4, by combining sequences of human beta-defensin-3 (hBD-3) and human beta-defensin-4 (hBD-4), then evaluated its antibacterial activity, salt resistance, and cytotoxic effects. The result showed that the antibacterial activity of H4 against most tested strains, including Klebsiella pneumonia, Enterococcus faecalis, Staphyloccocus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumonia, and Acinetobacter baumannii was significantly improved compared to that of hBD-3 and hBD-4. Notably, H4 exhibited significantly better antibacterial activity against multidrug resistant isolate A. baumannii MDR-ZJ06 than commonly used antibiotics. Chimeric H4 still showed more than 80% antibacterial activity at high salt concentration (150 mu M), which proves its good salt tolerance. The cytotoxic effect assay showed that the toxicity of H4 to Hela, Vero, A549 cells and erythrocytes at a low dose (
ISSN:1664-302X
1664-302X
DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2021.663151