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Spectroscopic Characterization of An Antimicrobial Peptide(RTCⅠ) from Skin of Rana temporaria chensinensis, David

ZHOU Jie, MENG Qing-Fan, TIAN Xiao-Le, CHENG Ying-Kun, JIANG Fu-Jia, LI Qing-Shan, TENG Li-Rong*   

  1. College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
  • Received:2007-01-22 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-06-10 Published:2007-06-10
  • Contact: TENG Li-Rong

Abstract: An anion antimicrobial peptide(RTCⅠ) was purified from skin of Rana temporaria chensinensis, David, which has an antimicrobial activity against many strains of clinical multi-drug resistant bacteria. When excited at 276.5 and 356.5 nm, it exhibited a single emission band(λmax=448 nm). IR spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy and amino acid composition analysis were used to study the structure basis of the characters observed in fluorescence spectra. Tyr, Asn(Asp) and Glu(Gln) are the mainly amino acid composition of RTCⅠ, it is suspected that the specific fluorescence spectra and electronic absorbance spectra are related to the strong hydrogen bond of Tyr phenolic hydroxyl groups and the side chains of Asn. The peculiar fluorescence will provide the possibility for further studies of the antibacterial mechanism on molecular level.

Key words: Rana temporaria chensinensis, David, Antimicrobial peptide, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Structure

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