Lactoferrin-derived antimicrobial peptide induces a micellar cubic phase in a model membrane system

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Bastos, Margarida ^a   Silva, Tânia ^a   Teixeira, Vitor ^a   Nazmi, Kamran ^b   Bolscher, Jan G M ^b   Funari, Sérgio S ^c   Uhríková, Daniela ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; LACTOFERRIN; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; MICELLE; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL MEMBRANE; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LACTOFERRIN; MICELLES; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROLS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 80052503897     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.06.038     Document Type: Article

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