Effects on mollicutes (wall-less bacteria) of synthetic peptides comprising a signal peptide or a membrane fusion peptide, and a nuclear localization sequence (NLS) - A comparison with melittin

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1329, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 357-369

  Béven, Laure ^a   Chaloin, Laurent ^b   Vidal, Pierre ^b   Heitz, Frédéric ^b   Wróblewski, Henri ^a  

^a UPRES A CNRS No 6026 GDR CNRS N   (France)

^b ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

Author keywords

Acholeplasma; Amphipathic peptide; Cell deformation; Growth inhibition; Melittin; Membrane potential; Membrane thickness; Mollicute; Mycoplasma; Spiroplasma

Indexed keywords

MELITTIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ACHOLEPLASMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG DESIGN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL, TUMOR; CELL WALL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP41; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; LIPOSOMES; MELITTEN; MICELLES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PEPTIDES; PHENYLALANINE; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROLS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SPIROPLASMA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRYPTOPHAN;

ACHOLEPLASMA; ACHOLEPLASMA LAIDLAWII; CAIMAN CROCODILUS; CROCODILUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA MELLIFERUM;

EID: 0343907339     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(97)00130-2     Document Type: Article

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