The proline-rich antimicrobial peptide B7-005: Low bacterial resistance, safe for human cells and effective in zebrafish embryo bacteraemia model

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2024
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  • antibiotic resistance
  • antimicrobial peptide
  • drug discovery
  • proline-rich
  • protein synthesis
  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides
  • Antimicrobial Peptides
  • Bacteremia
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian
  • Escherichia coli
  • Humans
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Proline
  • Zebrafish
  • antiinfective agent
  • antimicrobial cationic peptide
  • polypeptide antibiotic agent
  • proline
  • animal
  • bacteremia
  • chemistry
  • disease model
  • drug effect
  • drug therapy
  • embryology
  • human
  • microbial sensitivity test
  • microbiology
  • nonmammalian embryo
  • zebra fish
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  • Proline-rich antimicrobial peptides (PrAMPs) have gained attention due to their antimicrobial properties and low cytotoxicity. B7-005, a small optimized PrAMP, exhibits a broader spectrum of activity than native PrAMPs, due to an antimicrobial mechanism based on inhibiting prokaryotic protein synthesis and destabilizing bacterial membranes. However, the toxicity and the in vivo efficacy of B7-005 remain poorly understood, so in vitro and in vivo microbiology and toxicology experiments were used to assess its suitability as an anti-infective agent. The incidence of resistance towards B7-005 by E. coli was lower than for other PrAMPs and antibiotics; moreover, it maintained antimicrobial activity in the presence of human serum. B7-005 exerted its antimicrobial effect at a much lower concentration than those causing harmful effects on four different cell types, such as membrane permeabilization or non-lytic depolarization of mitochondria. The latter effect may be related to the inhibition of eukaryotic protein synthesis by B7-005 observed in vitro. In a zebrafish embryo model, B7-005 was well tolerated and reduced mortality from pre-existing E. coli bacteraemia. Overall, B7-005 was safe for human cells and effective against systemic infection in vivo, making it a promising lead for developing new antibiotics. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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