Structure-function relationship studies on the frog skin antimicrobial peptide Tigerinin 1: Design of analogs with improved activity and their action on clinical bacterial isolates

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2279-2283

  Sitaram, Narasimhaiah ^a   Sai, Korrapati Purna ^a   Singh, Shashi ^a   Sankaran, Krishnan ^a   Nagaraj, Ramakrishnan ^a  

^a Centre for Cellular Biology   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; TIGERININ 1; TRIFLUOROACETIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISULFIDE BOND; DRUG STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FROG; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; BACTERIUM; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS;

EID: 0035984825     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.7.2279-2283.2002     Document Type: Article

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