Membrane curvature stress and antibacterial activity of lactoferricin derivatives

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 369, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 395-400

  Zweytick, Dagmar ^a   Tumer, Sabine ^a   Blondelle, Sylvie E ^b   Lohner, Karl ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b TORREY PINES INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; E. coli; Lactoferricin; Membrane curvature stress; Model membrane

Indexed keywords

LACTOFERRICIN; LACTOFERRICIN DERIVATIVE; LF 11; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHENYLALANYLGLUTAMINYLTRYPTOPHYLGLUTAMINYLARGINYLASPARAGINYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLLYSYLVALYLARGININAMIDE; PHENYLALANYLTRYPTOPHYLLGLUTAMINYLARGINYLASPARAGINYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLARGININAMIDE; PROLYLPHENYLALANYLPHENYLALANYLTRYPTOPHYLARGINYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLARGININAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VS1 13; VS1 24;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE CURVATURE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRESS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL MEMBRANE; ELASTICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOFERRIN; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 40849102416     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.01.176     Document Type: Article

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