Damage of the bacterial cell envelope by antimicrobial peptides gramicidin S and PGLa as revealed by transmission and scanning electron microscopy

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3132-3142

  Hartmann, Mareike ^a   Berditsch, Marina ^a   Hawecker, Jacques ^a   Ardakani, Mohammad Fotouhi ^a   Gerthsen, Dagmar ^a   Ulrich, Anne S ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX PEPTIDYLGLYCYLLEUCINE CARBOXYAMIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GRAMICIDIN S; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAMICIDIN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77955377305     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00124-10     Document Type: Article

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