Surface activity properties of cysteine-substituted C-terminal melittin analogues

Biochimie

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 503-508

  Ebeling, S C ^a   Kelly, S M ^b   O'Kennedy, B T ^c   Price, N C ^b   Sheehan, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Haemolysis; Melittin; Peptide; Surface activity

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; MELITTIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMULSION; HEMOLYSIS; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 0030667106     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9084(97)82742-3     Document Type: Article

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