Novel antimicrobial peptides derived from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and other lentivirus transmembrane proteins

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2394-2398

  Tencza, Sarah Burroughs ^a   Douglass, John P ^a   Creighton Jr , Donald J ^a   Montelaro, Ronald C ^a,b   Mietzner, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b W1144 Biomedical Science Tower ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CECROPIN; MAGAININ DERIVATIVE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA VIRUS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LENTIVIRINAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030722714     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.11.2394     Document Type: Article

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