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Multifunctional proteins are abundant in viruses but, surprisingly, have never been thoroughly screened for bioactive peptide sequences.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Using the AMPA and CellPPD online tools, we have evaluated the propensity of viral proteins to comprise AMP or cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs). Capsid proteins from both enveloped and non-enveloped viruses, and membrane and envelope proteins from enveloped viruses, in a total of 272 proteins from 133 viruses, were screened to detect the presence of potential AMP and CPP sequences. A pool of 2444 and 426 CPP and AMP sequences, respectively, were discovered. The capsids of flaviviruses are the best sources of these peptides reaching more than 80% of CPP sequence coverage per protein. Selected sequences were tested experimentally and validated the results. Overall, this study reveals that viruses form a natural multivalent biotechnological platform still underexplored in drug discovery and the heterogeneous abundance of CPP\/AMP sequences among viral families opens new avenues in viral biology research.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contacts: \u00a0aveiga@medicina.ulisboa.pt or macastanho@medicina.ulisboa.pt<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv131","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,3,1]],"date-time":"2015-03-01T01:22:16Z","timestamp":1425172936000},"page":"2252-2256","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":40,"title":["Mining viral proteins for antimicrobial and cell-penetrating drug delivery peptides"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Jo\u00e3o Miguel","family":"Freire","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Susana","family":"Almeida Dias","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Lu\u00eds","family":"Flores","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Ana Salom\u00e9","family":"Veiga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Miguel A.R.B.","family":"Castanho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisbon, Portugal"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,2,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020202153656700_btv131-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"795","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-biochem-060910-095130","article-title":"Structure unifies the viral universe","volume":"81","author":"Abrescia","year":"2012","journal-title":"Annu. 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