Antimicrobial and cell-penetrating peptides: Structure, assembly and mechanisms of membrane lysis via atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamic simulations

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1313-1327

  Bond, Peter J ^a   Khalid, Syma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Coarse grain; Lipid bilayer; Membrane lysis; Molecular dynamics simulation; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650519083     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/0929866511009011313     Document Type: Article

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