Proline-rich antimicrobial peptides: Converging to a non-lytic mechanism of action

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2317-2330

  Scocchi, Marco ^a   Tossi, Alessandro ^a   Gennaro, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Antimicrobial peptide; Mode of action; Non lytic mechanism; Proline rich peptide

Indexed keywords

A3 APO; ABAECIN; APIDAECIN; ARASIN; ASTACIDIN; BAC11; BAC3.4; BAC4; BAC5; BAC6; BAC7; BOMBESIN; CALLINECTIN; CATHELICIDIN; CELL PENETRATING PEPTIDE; DROSOCIN; FORMAECIN; HELIOCIN; LEBOCIN; METALNIKOWIN; METCHNIKOWIN; ONCOCIN; PENAEIDIN; POLYMYXIN B; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PR 39; PROLINE RICH PROTEIN; PROPHENIN; PYRRHOCORICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DISULFIDE BOND; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOSYLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROLINE; PROLINE-RICH PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960961765     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-011-0721-7     Document Type: Review

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