TY - JOUR
T1 - Primary structures of skin antimicrobial peptides indicate a close, but not conspecific, phylogenetic relationship between the leopard frogs Lithobates onca and Lithobates yavapaiensis (Ranidae)
AU - Conlon, J. Michael
AU - Coquet, Laurent
AU - Leprince, Jérôme
AU - Jouenne, Thierry
AU - Vaudry, Hubert
AU - King, Jay D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a Faculty Support Grant and an Individual Research Grant from U.A.E. University . The authors thank Eman Ahmed for technical assistance and Jef R. Jaeger, Public Lands Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Teya King for help in specimen collection. The authors also thank Tibor Pal and Agnes Sonnevend, Department of Medical Microbiology, U.A.E. University for help and advice with antimicrobial assays.
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - The phylogenetic relationship between the relict leopard frog Lithobates (Rana) onca (Cope, 1875) and the lowland leopard frog Lithobates (Rana) yavapaiensis (Platz and Frost, 1984) is unclear. Chromatographic analysis of norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions from L. onca led to the identification of six peptides with antimicrobial activity. Determination of their primary structures indicated that four of the peptides were identical to brevinin-1Ya, brevinin-1Yb, brevinin-1Yc and ranatuerin-2Ya previously isolated from skin secretions of L. yavapaiensis. However, a peptide belonging to the temporin family (temporin-ONa: FLPTFGKILSGLF.NH2) and an atypical member of the ranatuerin-2 family containing a C-terminal cyclic heptapeptide domain (ranatuerin-2ONa: GLMDTVKNAAKNLAGQMLDKLKCKITGSC) were isolated from the L. onca secretions but were not present in the L. yavapaiensis secretions. Ranatuerin-2ONa inhibited the growth of Escherichia coli (MIC = 50 μM) and Candida albicans (MIC = 100 μM ) and showed hemolytic activity (LC50 = 90 μM) but was inactive against Staphylococcus aureus. The data indicate a close phylogenetic relationship between L. onca and L. yavapaiensis but suggest that they are not conspecific species.
AB - The phylogenetic relationship between the relict leopard frog Lithobates (Rana) onca (Cope, 1875) and the lowland leopard frog Lithobates (Rana) yavapaiensis (Platz and Frost, 1984) is unclear. Chromatographic analysis of norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions from L. onca led to the identification of six peptides with antimicrobial activity. Determination of their primary structures indicated that four of the peptides were identical to brevinin-1Ya, brevinin-1Yb, brevinin-1Yc and ranatuerin-2Ya previously isolated from skin secretions of L. yavapaiensis. However, a peptide belonging to the temporin family (temporin-ONa: FLPTFGKILSGLF.NH2) and an atypical member of the ranatuerin-2 family containing a C-terminal cyclic heptapeptide domain (ranatuerin-2ONa: GLMDTVKNAAKNLAGQMLDKLKCKITGSC) were isolated from the L. onca secretions but were not present in the L. yavapaiensis secretions. Ranatuerin-2ONa inhibited the growth of Escherichia coli (MIC = 50 μM) and Candida albicans (MIC = 100 μM ) and showed hemolytic activity (LC50 = 90 μM) but was inactive against Staphylococcus aureus. The data indicate a close phylogenetic relationship between L. onca and L. yavapaiensis but suggest that they are not conspecific species.
KW - Antimicrobial peptide
KW - Brevinin-1
KW - Frog skin
KW - Ranatuerin-2
KW - Temporin
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cbpc.2009.12.004
DO - 10.1016/j.cbpc.2009.12.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 20044030
AN - SCOPUS:75349113814
SN - 1532-0456
VL - 151
SP - 313
EP - 317
JO - Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology
JF - Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology
IS - 3
ER -