The hydrophobicity in a chemically modified side-chain of cysteine residues of thanatin is related to antimicrobial activity against Micrococcus luteus

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1683-1684

  Orikasa, Yoshitake ^a   Ichinohe, Kenta ^a   Saito, Junki ^a   Hashimoto, Shigeki ^b   Matsumoto, Ken'ichiro ^a   Ooi, Toshihiko ^a   Taguchi, Seiichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Chemical modification; Thanatin

Indexed keywords

ANTI-MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; CHEMICALLY MODIFIED; CYSTEINE RESIDUES; ETHYL GROUPS; METHYL GROUP; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; OCTYL GROUPS; SIDE-CHAIN; THANATIN; WILD TYPES;

AMINES; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROPHOBICITY; PEPTIDES;

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CYCLOPEPTIDE; CYSTEINE; THANATIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CYSTEINE; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS;

EID: 68649115070     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.90183     Document Type: Article

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