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A uniform in vitro efficacy dataset to guide antimicrobial peptide design

Nagarajan, D and Nagarajan, T and Nanajkar, N and Chandra, N (2019) A uniform in vitro efficacy dataset to guide antimicrobial peptide design. In: Data, 4 (1).

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/data4010027

Abstract

Antimicrobial peptides are ubiquitous molecules that form the innate immune system of organisms across all kingdoms of life. Despite their prevalence and early origins, they continue to remain potent natural antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial peptides are therefore promising drug candidates in the face of overwhelming multi-drug resistance to conventional antibiotics. Over the past few decades, thousands of antimicrobial peptides have been characterized in vitro, and their efficacy data are now available in a multitude of public databases. Computational antimicrobial peptide design attempts typically use such data. However, utilizing heterogenous data aggregated from different sources presents significant drawbacks. In this report, we present a uniform dataset containing 20 antimicrobial peptides assayed against 30 organisms of Gram-negative, Gram-positive, mycobacterial, and fungal origin. We also present circular dichroism spectra for all antimicrobial peptides. We draw simple inferences from this data, and we discuss what characteristics are essential for antimicrobial peptide efficacy. We expect our uniform dataset to be useful for future projects involving computational antimicrobial peptide design.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Data
Publisher: MDPI AG
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors.
Keywords: Antimicrobial peptides; Bioinformatics; Drug discovery
Department/Centre: Division of Biological Sciences > Biochemistry
Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering
Date Deposited: 28 Oct 2022 05:32
Last Modified: 28 Oct 2022 05:32
URI: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/77708

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