Enhanced antitumor activity and selectivity of lactoferrin-derived peptides

Journal of Peptide Research

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 187-197

  Yang, N ^a   Rekdal, O ^a   Stensen, W ^a   Svendsen, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Lactoferricin; Lactoferrin; Lytic peptides; Tumoricidal peptides

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CATION; LACTOFERRIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN HT29; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOSIS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BREAST TUMOR; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HEMOLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBROBLASTS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LACTOFERRIN; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036793131     PISSN: 1397002X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3011.2002.21008.x     Document Type: Article

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