In vitro antibacterial and hemolytic activities of crotamine, a small basic myotoxin from rattlesnake Crotalus durissus

Journal of Antibiotics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 327-331

  Oguiura, Nancy ^a,c   Boni Mitake, Malvina ^b   Affonso, Regina ^b   Zhang, Guolong ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

antimicrobial peptides; b defensin; crotamine; snake venom; toxin

Indexed keywords

CROTAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEMOLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SNAKE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROTALID VENOMS; CROTALUS; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEMOLYSIS; MEMBRANES; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PERMEABILITY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CROTALUS DURISSUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS TERRIFICUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955569782     PISSN: 00218820     EISSN: 18811469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ja.2011.10     Document Type: Article

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