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SuPepMem: A database of innate immune system peptides and their cell membrane interactions. | LitMetric

SuPepMem: A database of innate immune system peptides and their cell membrane interactions.

Comput Struct Biotechnol J

Department of Organic Chemistry, Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials, Santiago de Compostela University, CIQUS, Spain.

Published: January 2022

AI Article Synopsis

  • - Host defense peptides (HDPs) are short, positively charged peptides essential for the innate immune response, acting by disrupting the membranes of various harmful cells, like bacteria and cancer cells, due to their unique lipid compositions.
  • - The SuPepMem repository offers molecular dynamics (MD) simulations showcasing HDPs' interactions with different cell membrane models, serving as a valuable resource for understanding these interactions better than traditional lab methods.
  • - SuPepMem provides input files for simulations, analysis results, and tools for comparing different HDPs and membrane models, with plans for ongoing updates to include more peptide sequences and membrane types for enhanced research possibilities.

Article Abstract

Host defense peptides (HDPs) are short cationic peptides that play a key role in the innate immune response of all living organisms. Their action mechanism does not depend on the presence of protein receptors, but on their ability to target and disrupt the membranes of a wide range of pathogenic and pathologic cells which are recognized by their specific compositions, typically with a relatively high concentration of anionic lipids. Lipid profile singularities have been found in cancer, inflammation, bacteria, viral infections, and even in senescent cells, enabling the possibility to use them as therapeutic targets and/or diagnostic biomarkers. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are extraordinarily well suited to explore how HDPs interact with membrane models, providing a large amount of qualitative and quantitative information that, nowadays, cannot be assessed by wet-lab methods at the same level of temporal and spatial resolution. Here, we present SuPepMem, an open-access repository containing MD simulations of different natural and artificial peptides with potential membrane lysis activity, interacting with membrane models of healthy mammal, bacteria, viruses, cancer or senescent cells. In addition to a description of the HDPs and the target systems, SuPepMem provides both the input files necessary to run the simulations and also the results of some selected analyses, including structural and MD-based quantitative descriptors. These descriptors are expected to be useful to train machine learning algorithms that could contribute to design new therapeutic peptides. Tools for comparative analysis between different HDPs and model membranes, as well as to restrict the queries to structural and time-averaged properties are also available. SuPepMem is a living project, that will continuously grow with more simulations including peptides of different sequences, MD simulations with different number of peptide units, more membrane models and also several resolution levels. The database is open to MD simulations from other users (after quality check by the SuPepMem team). SuPepMem is freely available under https://supepmem.com/.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8844400PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2022.01.025DOI Listing

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