Computational design of highly selective antimicrobial peptides

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2873-2882

  Juretić, Davor ^a   Vukičević, Damir ^a   Ilić, Nada ^a   Antcheva, Nikolinka ^b   Tossi, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBIOTICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN; COSINE OF THE ANGLES; HYDROPHOBICITY SCALE; PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTICS; SELECTIVITY INDEX; STATISTICAL RULES;

PEPTIDES;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNTHESIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DRUG DESIGN; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 73349090933     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci900327a     Document Type: Article

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