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| Loth, Karine; Vergnes, Agnes; Barreto, Cairé; Voisin, Sébastien N; Meudal, Hervé; Da Silva, Jennifer; Bressan, Albert; Belmadi, Nawal; Bachère, Evelyne; Aucagne, Vincent; Cazevielle, Chantal; Marchandin, Hélène; Rosa, Rafael Diego; Bulet, Philippe; Touqui, Lhousseine; Delmas, Agnès F.; Destoumieux-garzón, Delphine. |
| Big defensins, ancestors of β-defensins, are composed of a β-defensin-like C-terminal domain and a globular hydrophobic ancestral N-terminal domain. This unique structure is found in a limited number of phylogenetically distant species, including mollusks, ancestral chelicerates, and early-branching cephalochordates, mostly living in marine environments. One puzzling evolutionary issue concerns the advantage for these species of having maintained a hydrophobic domain lost during evolution toward β-defensins. Using native ligation chemistry, we produced the oyster Crassostrea gigas BigDef1 (Cg-BigDef1) and its separate domains. Cg-BigDef1 showed salt-stable and broad-range bactericidal activity, including against multidrug-resistant human clinical isolates... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: MRSA; Antimicrobial peptides; Antimicrobial resistance; Defensins; Fibrils; Innate immunity; Mechanisms of action; Nuclear magnetic resonance. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00588/70057/68000.pdf |
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| Barbosa,João A.R.G.; Netto,Luis E.S.; Farah,Chuck S.; Schenkman,Sergio; Meneghini,Rogério. |
| This article describes the achievements of the Structural Molecular Biology Network (SMolBNet), a collaborative program of structural molecular biology, centered in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, and supported by São Paulo State Funding Agency (FAPESP). It gathers twenty scientific groups and is coordinated by the scientific staff of the Center of Structural Molecular Biology, at the National Laboratory of Synchrotron Light (LNLS), in Campinas. The SMolBNet program has been aimed at 1) solving the structure of proteins of interest related to the research projects of the groups. In some cases, the choice has been to select proteins of unknown function or of possible novel structure obtained from the sequenced genomes of the FAPESP genomic program; 2)... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Structural genomics; Protein crystallography; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Protein structure. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652006000200006 |
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