A class of highly potent antibacterial peptides derived from pardaxin, a pore-forming peptide isolated from Moses sole fish Pardachirus marmoratus

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 303-310

  Oren, Ziv ^a   Shai, Yechiel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Cytotoxicity; Membrane; Peptide; Structure

Indexed keywords

ANTIBACTERIAL PEPTIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CECROPIN; DERMASEPTIN; MAGAININ 1; MELITTIN; PARDAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FISH; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; PARDACHIRUS MARMORATUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0029947232     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0303n.x     Document Type: Article

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