Cholesterol attenuates the interaction of the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin S with phospholipid bilayer membranes

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1510, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 83-92

  Prenner, Elmar J ^a   Lewis, Ruthven N A H ^a   Jelokhani Niaraki, Masood ^a   Hodges, Robert S ^a   McElhaney, Ronald N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Antimicrobial peptide; Calcein leakage; Cholesterol; Circular dichroism; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Gramicidin S; Lipid peptide interaction

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GRAMICIDIN S; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG CONFORMATION; HEMOLYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHOLESTEROL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GRAMICIDIN; LIPID BILAYERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0035830591     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(00)00337-0     Document Type: Article

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