Conformation and interactions of bioactive peptides from insect venoms: The bombolitins

Biopolymers

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 419-431

  Peggion, Evaristo ^a   Mammi, Stefano ^a   Schievano, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphipathic helices; Bombolitins; Conformation; Lytic peptides

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; FLUORESCENCE; LIPIDS; MICELLES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

BOMBOLITINS; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

AMINO ACIDS;

BOMBOLITIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM;

ANIMAL CELL; BEE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INSECT; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEE VENOMS; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031394868     PISSN: 00063525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0282(1997)43:6<419::AID-BIP4>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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