Enhanced antimicrobial activity of engineered human lysozyme

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 809-818

  Scanlon, Thomas C ^a   Teneback, Charlotte C ^d   Gill, Avinash ^a   Bement, Jenna L ^d   Weiner, Joshua A ^b   Lamppa, John W ^a   Leclair, Laurie W ^d   Griswold, Karl E ^a,b,c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; LYSOZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; LUNG; MICE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MURAMIDASE; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 77956938905     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb1001119     Document Type: Article

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