The micelle-bound structure of an antimicrobial peptide derived from the α-chain of bovine hemoglobin isolated from the tick Boophilus microplus

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6440-6451

  Sforça, Maurício L ^a   Machado, Alessandra ^b   Figueredo, Rita C R ^a   Oyama Jr , Sérgio ^a   Silva, Fernanda D ^b   Miranda, Antonio ^c   Daffre, Sirlei ^b   Miranda, M Terêsa M ^b   Spisni, Alberto ^a,d,e   Pertinhez, Thelma A ^a,e  

^a Center for Structural Molecular Biology   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e Ctr for Molec and Struct Biology   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BOND STRUCTURE; MICROMOLAR CONCENTRATIONS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; HEMOGLOBIN; POLYPEPTIDES;

MICELLES;

AMPHOLYTE; HEMOGLOBIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FUNGAL STRAIN; MICELLE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TICK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BINDING SITES; CATTLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE MEASUREMENT; HEMOGLOBIN A; IXODIDAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICELLES; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; FUNGI; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 20944449216     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0475323     Document Type: Article

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