Enhancing Antimicrobial Peptide Potency through Multivalent Presentation on Coiled-Coil Nanofibrils

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
2021.0

Abstract

Antibiotic-resistant microbes have become a global health threat. New delivery systems that enhance the efficacy of antibiotics and/or overcome the resistances can help combat them. In this context, we present FF03, a fibril-forming α-helical coiled-coil peptide that functions as an efficient scaffold for the multivalent presentation of the weakly cationic antimicrobial peptide (AMP) IN4. The resulting IN4-decorated FF03 coiled-coil fibrils (FF03 + IN4) are nonhemolytic and noncytotoxic and show enhanced antimicrobial activity relative to unconjugated IN4 and standard antibiotics against several bacterial strains. Scanning electron microscopy analysis shows that FF03 + IN4 nanofibers disrupt methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus membranes, indicating a surface-level mode of action. Furthermore, transmission electron microscopy and circular dichroism studies indicate that decoration of the FF03 scaffold with IN4 does not alter the secondary-structure propensity or fibril-forming properties of FF03. Thus, the approach reported herein provides a new peptidic scaffold for the multivalent presentation of AMPs to obtain nonhemolytic and noncytotoxic antimicrobial systems with improved efficacy relative to the unconjugated AMP analogues.

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