Use of unnatural amino acids to probe structure-activity relationships and mode-of-action of antimicrobial peptides

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 794, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-183

  Tossi, Alessandro ^a   Scocchi, Marco ^a   Zahariev, Sotir ^b   Gennaro, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Host defence peptide; Nonproteinogenic amino acids; SAR studies; Solid phase peptide synthesis; Unnatural amino acids

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; MOLECULAR PROBES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80655125163     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-331-8_10     Document Type: Article

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