Rational design of peptides active against the gram positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 229-239

  Landon, Céline ^a,d   Barbault, Florent ^b   Legrain, Michèle ^c   Guenneugues, Marc ^c   Vovelle, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

^d CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; Antibacterial activity; Antimicrobial peptides; CS ; Cytotoxicity; Electrostatic potential; Hydrophobic potential; Insect defensin; Motif; NMR; Staphylococcus aureus; Three dimensional structure

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; DEFENSIN; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG INHIBITION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYBRID; INSECT; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DEFENSINS; DRUG DESIGN; ELECTROSTATICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; INSECTS; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOXICITY TESTS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA; MUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 44949252130     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21912     Document Type: Article

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