A synthetic form of tracheal antimicrobial peptide has both bactericidal and antifungal activities

Drug Design and Discovery

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 171-178

  Lawyer, Carl ^a   Watabe, Misako ^a   Pai, Sudha ^a   Bakir, Haithem ^a   Eagleton, Lanie ^a   Mashimo, Tomoyuki ^a   Watabe, Kounosuke ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; TRACHEAL ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES;

EID: 0030468922     PISSN: 10559612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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