• Journal of fish pathology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.65-77
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• 1996

Tachyplesin I is an antimicrobial peptide isolated from horseshoe crab. To investigate the mechanism of action of tachyplesin I for phospholipid bilayers, tachyplesin I and five analogs have been synthesized by the solution method. The synthesized five analogs are [$Phe^2$]-tachyplesin I, [$Phe^{8,13}$]-tachyplesin I, [$Cys(Acm)^{3,7,12,16}$]-tachyplesin I with no disulfide bonds, 7(Acm) and 10 (Acm) which denote the fragments [$Cys(Acm)^{3,7,12,16}$]-tachyplesin I. Circular dichroism spectra showed that tachyplesin I took an antiparallel $\beta$-structure in buffer solution and a less ordered structure in acidic liposomes. The carboxyfluorescein leakage experiment indicated that tachyplesin I interacted strongly with neutral and acidic phospholipid bilayers. In fluorescence experiment, the hydrophobic part of the peptide was shown to be embedded in lipid bilayers. All the peptides except for 7(Acm) and 10(Acm) were almost equally active in lipopolysaccharide binding. Therefore, the present study suggested that phospholipid bilayers induced a conformational change of tachyplesin I from the stable $\beta$-structure to a less ordered one.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.230-231
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• 2001

지금까지 많은 항균성 펩타이드가 포유류 (1), 양서류 (2), 곤충 (3) 및 식물 (4)로 부터 단리ㆍ정제되었고, 구조-활성간의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있지만, 이러한 연구는 육상생물에 제한적으로 수행되어 겼으며 해양생물을 대상으로 한 연구는 극히 제한되어 있는 상태이다. 해양생물로부터 정제된 항균성 펩타이드로서는 Flounder skin 분비물에서 pleurocidin (5), Moses sole fish에서 pardaxins (6), Horseshoe crab에서 Tachyplesin I(7), Tunicates hemocytes에서 Clavanins (8), Mollusc에서 Mytilins (9) 등이 보고되고 있지만 불가사리를 이용한 항균성물질의 연구는 희박한 실정이다. (중략)