Structure-function relationships in bombinins H, antimicrobial peptides from Bombina skin secretions

Peptides

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1673-1679

  Mangoni, M Luisa ^a   Grovale, Nicoletta ^b   Giorgi, Alessandra ^b   Mignogna, Giuseppina ^b   Simmaco, Maurizio ^a   Barra, Donatella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Antimicrobial peptides; Bombina genus; Bombinin H; D amino acid

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BOMBININ; BOMBININ H; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISOMER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SKIN SECRETION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANURA; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; PEPTIDES; POTASSIUM; SKIN; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TIME FACTORS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033696634     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(00)00316-8     Document Type: Article

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