Cecropin A–melittin mutant with improved proteolytic stability and enhanced antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungi associated with gastroenteritis in vitro

S Ji, W Li, L Zhang, Y Zhang, B Cao - Biochemical and biophysical …, 2014 - Elsevier
… Thus, a four-tryptophan-substitution mutant (CAM-W) from CAM was developed via the …
acid residues to enhance the antimicrobial potency and to improve the proteolytic stability of this …

Design, expression, and characterization of a novel cecropin A-derived peptide with high antibacterial activity

M Wang, J Lin, Q Sun, K Zheng, Y Ma… - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
… to be made to improve the antibacterial activity of CeA. In this study, nine mutant peptides of
… To determine the resistance of PEW300 to proteolytic digestion, we treated the peptide with …

Efficient biosynthesis of a Cecropin A-melittin mutant in Bacillus subtilis WB700

S Ji, W Li, AR Baloch, M Wang, H Li, B Cao, H Zhang - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
… CAM-W shows more potent antimicrobial activity against … improved proteolytic stability under
a series of proteases, including trypsin, pepsin, and the Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease

A novel antimicrobial protein for plant protection consisting of a Xanthomonas oryzae harpin and active domains of cecropin A and melittin

YZ Che, YR Li, HS Zou, LF Zou, B Zhang… - Microbial …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… , cecropin A and melittin, shows a better antimicrobial … Since mutations in the N-terminal
α-helices of Hpa1 Xoo and HpaG of … While stability to protease digestion is generally a desirable …

Antimicrobial activity of the recombinant peptide Melittin-Thanatin with three glycine to tryptophan mutations

Y Liu, X Zhang, C Meng, S Ji, K Guo - Preparative biochemistry & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… MT-W showed increased antibacterial activity, stability, lower … A previous study synthesized
Cecropin A-Melittin mutant (… was significantly better than MT in tolerance to proteases (p < …

Rapid and efficient production of cecropin A antibacterial peptide in Escherichia coli by fusion with a self-aggregating protein

M Wang, K Zheng, J Lin, M Huang, Y Ma, S Li, X Luo… - BMC …, 2018 - Springer
… cells and are readily degraded by proteases [32], various … degradation of CeA by proteases
to improve its expression. High-… -ELK16 system to induce and increase the formation of active …

Strategies employed in the design of antimicrobial peptides with enhanced proteolytic stability

Z Lai, X Yuan, H Chen, Y Zhu, N Dong, A Shan - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
… have been used to improve the proteolytic stability of AMPs, … progress made in improving
the proteolytic stability of AMPs … SHf mutant by inserting a cysteine disulfide bond, this mutant

[PDF][PDF] … OF MEROPENEM ALONE AND IN COMBINATION WITH CATIONIC ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE, CECROPIN A-(1-7) MELITTIN AGAINST MULTI-DRUG …

A CECROPIN - 2023 - krishikosh.egranth.ac.in
… in poultry feed, which are generally used to increase the growth … mutations, and in some
instances exhibit synergistic effects … and chances of degradation by host protease (in humans). …

Insect cecropins, antimicrobial peptides with potential therapeutic applications

D Brady, A Grapputo, O Romoli, F Sandrelli - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
… bacterial mutation rate induced by treatments with antibiotics … Peptide stability against
proteolysis can also be achieved by … considered an improvement able to enhance peptide stability, …

Comparative evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of different antimicrobial peptides against a range of pathogenic bacteria

A Ebbensgaard, H Mordhorst, MT Overgaard… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… five mutations, had strongly increased antimicrobial activity … antimicrobial activity of Cecropin
B, Cecropin P1and Melittin … ways to improve proteolytic stability of cationic antimicrobial