Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

In silico optimization of a guava antimicrobial peptide enables combinatorial exploration for peptide design

  • William F. Porto,
  • Luz Irazazabal,
  • Eliane S. F. Alves,
  • Suzana M. Ribeiro,
  • Carolina O. Matos,
  • Állan S. Pires,
  • Isabel C. M. Fensterseifer,
  • Vivian J. Miranda,
  • Evan F. Haney,
  • Vincent Humblot,
  • Marcelo D. T. Torres,
  • Robert E. W. Hancock,
  • Luciano M. Liao,
  • Ali Ladram,
  • Timothy K. Lu,
  • Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez,
  • Octavio L. Franco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03746-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Antimicrobial peptides are considered promising alternatives to antibiotics. Here the authors developed a computational algorithm that starts with peptides naturally occurring in plants and optimizes this starting material to yield new variants which are highly distinct from the parent peptide.