Translocation of non-lytic antimicrobial peptides and bacteria penetrating peptides across the inner membrane of the bacterial envelope
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The increase in multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria has become a problem worldwide. Currently there is a strong focus on the development of novel antimicrobials, including antimicrobial peptides (AMP) and antimicrobial antisense agents. While the majority of AMP have membrane activity and kill bacteria through membrane disruption, non-lytic AMP are non-membrane active, internalize and have intracellular targets. Antimicrobial antisense agents such as peptide nucleic acids (PNA) and phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers (PMO), show great promise as novel antibacterial agents, killing bacteria by inhibiting translation of essential target gene transcripts. However, naked PNA and PMO are unable to translocate across the cell envelope of bacteria, to reach their target in the cytosol, and are conjugated to bacteria penetrating peptides (BPP) for cytosolic delivery. Here, we discuss how non-lytic AMP and BPP-PMO/PNA conjugates translocate across the cytoplasmic membrane via receptor-mediated transport, such as the cytoplasmic membrane transporters SbmA, MdtM/YjiL, and/or YgdD, or via a less well described autonomous process.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Current Genetics |
Vol/bind | 68 |
Udgave nummer | 1 |
Sider (fra-til) | 83-90 |
ISSN | 0172-8083 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Novo Challenge Center for Peptide-Based Antibiotics grant (NNF16OC0021700), Villum Fonden (grant numbers: 35894, 36297).
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© 2021, The Author(s).
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