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Antimicrobial Peptides Derived from the Marine Organism(s) and Its Mode of Action  

Hwang, Bo-Mi (School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, June-Young (School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Dong-Gun (School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
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Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters / v.38, no.1, 2010 , pp. 19-23 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, marine organisms are emerging as a leading group for identifying and extracting novel bioactive substances. These substances are known to possess a potential regarding not only as a source of pharmaceutical products but also their beneficial effects on humans. Among the substances, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) specifically have attracted considerable interest for possible use in the development of new antibiotics. AMPs are characterized by relatively short cationic peptides containing the ability to adopt a structure in which cationic or hydrophobic amino acids are spatially scattered. Although a few reports address novel marine organisms-derived AMPs, their antimicrobial mechanism(s) are still remain unknown. In this review, we summarized the peptides previously investigated, such as Pleurocidin, Urechistachykinins, Piscidins and Arenicin-1. These peptides exhibited significant antimicrobial activities against human microbial pathogens without remarkable hemolytic effects against human erythrocytes, and their mode of actions are based on permeabilization of the plasma membrane of the pathogen. Therefore, the study of antimicrobial peptides derived from marine organisms may prove to be useful in the design of future therapeutic antimicrobial drugs.
Keywords
Antimicrobial peptide; marine organism; antimicrobial mechanism;
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