Structure-activity study of the antibacterial peptide fallaxin

Protein Science

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1969-1976

  Nielsen, Sandra L ^a   Frimodt Møller, Niels ^b   Kragelund, Birthe B ^c   Hansen, Paul Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alanine scan; Antibacterial activity; Coiled coil conformation; Fallaxin; Solid phase peptide synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FALLAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BUFFERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROCYTES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; METHICILLIN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VANCOMYCIN;

ANURA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEPTODACTYLUS FALLAX; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34548418612     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.072966007     Document Type: Article

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