CD and NMR structural characterization of ceratotoxins, natural peptides with antimicrobial activity

Biopolymers

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 653-664

  Ragona, Laura ^a   Molinari, Henriette ^b   Zetta, Lucia ^a   Longhi, Renato ^a   Marchini, Daniela ^c   Dallai, Romano ^c   Bernini, Luigi F ^d   Lozzi, Luisa ^c   Scarselli, Maria ^c   Niccolai, Neri ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CALCULATIONS; CHARACTERIZATION; GEOMETRY; METHANOL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PROTEINS;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CERATOTOXINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HOMOLOGY; NATURAL PEPTIDES; RAMACHANDRAN CLASSIFICATION;

AMINO ACIDS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CECROPIN; CERATOTOXIN A; CERATOTOXIN B; MAGAININ 1; MELITTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIOPOLYMERS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIPTERA; FEMALE; INSECT HORMONES; INSECT PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPITATA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030298280     PISSN: 00063525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0282(199611)39:5<653::aid-bip4>3.0.co;2-v     Document Type: Article

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