Kinetics of membrane lysis by custom lytic peptides and peptide orientations in membrane

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 268, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1659-1669

  Chen, H M ^a   Clayton, A H A ^b   Wang, W ^a   Sawyer, W H ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Lytic peptides; Membrane lysis; Oriented circular dichroism

Indexed keywords

CECROPIN B; CECROPIN B1; CECROPIN B3; DITHIONITE; LIPID; LIPOSOME; N 7 NITRO 2,1,3 BENZOXADIAZOL 4 YL; NITRO DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHATIDIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG MECHANISM; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; KINETICS; LIPID COMPOSITION; LYSIS; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; INSECT PROTEINS; KINETICS; LIPOSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0034818715     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02039.x     Document Type: Article

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