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| Titolo: | Conformational analysis of the frog skin peptide, plasticin-L1, and its effects on production of proinflammatory cytokines by macrophages |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2013 |
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| Citazione: | Conformational analysis of the frog skin peptide, plasticin-L1, and its effects on production of proinflammatory cytokines by macrophages / Scorciapino, M A; Manzo G; Rinaldi A; Sanna R; Casu M; Pantic J M; Lukic ML; Conlon JM. - In: BIOCHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0006-2960. - 52:41(2013), pp. 7231-7241. |
| Abstract: | Plasticin-L1 (GLVNGLLSSVLGGGQGGGGLLGGIL) is a conformationally flexible glycine/leucine-rich peptide originally isolated from norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions of the South-American Santa Fe frog Leptodactylus laticeps (Leptodactylidae). A nuclear magnetic resonance/molecular dynamics characterization of plasticin-L1 in the presence of dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) and DPC/sodium dodecylsulphate micelles as membrane-mimetic models showed that the peptide has affinity for both neutral and anionic membranes. The peptide adopts a stable helical conformation at the N-terminal region and a more disordered helix at the C-terminal region, separated by an unstructured loop wherein the highest number of glycines is localized. In both micelle environments, plasticin-L1 slowly inserts between the detergent head groups but always remains localized at the micelle/water interface. Plasticin-L1 lacks direct antimicrobial activity but stimulates cytokine production by macrophages. Incubation with plasticin-L1 (20 μg/mL) significantly (P < 0.05) increased the production of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-12, IL-23, and TNF-α from unstimulated peritoneal macrophages from both C57BL/6 and BALB/C mice. The peptide also increased IL-6 production by unstimulated (P < 0.01) and lipopolysaccharide-stimulated (P < 0.01) macrophages, whereas the effects on production of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 were not significant. These findings suggest that plasticin-L1 may play an immunomodulatory role in vivo by stimulating cytokine production from frog skin macrophages in response to microbial pathogens. This peptide may represent a template for the design of peptides with therapeutic applications as immunostimulatory agents |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11584/94412 |
| Tipologia: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |
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