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Leveraging family-specific signatures for AMP discovery and high-throughput annotation

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Leveraging family-specific signatures for AMP discovery and high-throughput annotation
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Scientific Reports, April 2016
DOI 10.1038/srep24684
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Faiza Hanif Waghu, Ram Shankar Barai, Susan Idicula-Thomas

Abstract

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are diverse, biologically active, essential components of the innate immune system. As compared to conventional antibiotics, AMPs exhibit broad spectrum antimicrobial activity, reduced toxicity and reduced microbial resistance. They are widely researched for their therapeutic potential, especially against multi-drug resistant pathogens. AMPs are known to have family-specific sequence composition, which can be mined for their discovery and rational design. Here, we present a detailed family-based study on AMP families. The study involved the use of sequence signatures represented by patterns and hidden Markov models (HMMs) present in experimentally studied AMPs to identify novel AMPs. Along with AMPs, peptides hitherto lacking antimicrobial annotation were also retrieved and wet-lab studies on randomly selected sequences proved their antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli. CAMPSign, a webserver has been created for researchers to effortlessly exploit the use of AMP family signatures for identification of AMPs. The webserver is available online at www.campsign.bicnirrh.res.in. In this work, we demonstrate an optimised and experimentally validated protocol along with a freely available webserver that uses family-based sequence signatures for accelerated discovery of novel AMPs.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 29%
Researcher 9 26%
Student > Master 6 17%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 6 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 37%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Chemical Engineering 2 6%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 6 17%
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