Denatured bactericidal proteins: Active per se, or reservoirs of active peptides?

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2403-2404

  D'Alessio, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bactericidal activity; Destructured proteins; Peptides; Structure to function paradigm

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN 1; DEFENSIN; GLYCOSIDASE; LYSOZYME; PEPTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; HOST RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; HUMANS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 79960899809     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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