X-ray studies on the interaction of the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin S with microbial lipid extracts: Evidence for cubic phase formation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1468, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 213-230

  Staudegger, Erich ^a   Prenner, Elmar J ^b   Kriechbaum, Manfred ^a   Degovics, Gábor ^a   Lewis, Ruthven N A H ^b   McElhaney, Ronald N ^b   Lohner, Karl ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Gramicidin S; Lipid peptide interaction; Microbial lipid; Non lamellar phase; Phospholipid

Indexed keywords

AMPHOLYTE; GLYCOLIPID; GRAMICIDIN S; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID;

ACHOLEPLASMA LAIDLAWII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACHOLEPLASMA; ANTIBIOTICS, PEPTIDE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAMICIDIN; LIPID BILAYERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0034730576     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(00)00260-1     Document Type: Article

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