Crumpled structure of the custom hydrophobic lytic peptide cecropin B3

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 268, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 4278-4284

  Srisailam, S ^a   Kumar, T K S ^a   Arunkumar, A I ^b   Leung, K W ^c   Yu, C ^a   Chen, H M ^d  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^d AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cecropin B3; Crumpled; NMR structure

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CECROPIN B; CECROPIN B1; CECROPIN B3; HYDROLASE; LIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CANCER CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG POTENCY; HUMAN; LYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

3T3 CELLS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; INSECT PROTEINS; JURKAT CELLS; K562 CELLS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MICELLES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0034826177     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02345.x     Document Type: Article

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