Antimicrobial mechanism of pore-forming protegrin peptides: 100 pores to kill E. coli

Peptides

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Bolintineanu, Dan ^a   Hazrati, Ehsan ^b   Davis, H Ted ^a   Lehrer, Robert I ^b   Kaznessis, Yiannis N ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Mechanism of action; Multiscale model

Indexed keywords

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUS;

EID: 72749105356     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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