Activity and mechanism of antimicrobial peptide-mimetic amphiphilic polymethacrylate derivatives

Polymers

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1512-1532

  Sovadinova, Iva ^a   Palermo, Edmund F ^a   Urban, Michael ^b   Mpiga, Philomene ^a   Caputo, Gregory A ^b   Kuroda, Kenichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphiphilic polymers; Antibiotic resistance; Antimicrobials; Host defense peptides

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILIC POLYMERS; AMPHIPHILICS; ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTI-MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; ANTIMICROBIALS; BACTERIAL INNER MEMBRANES; BACTERICIDAL EFFECTS; E. COLI; GROWTH PHASIS; HUMAN RED BLOOD CELL; MAGAININ; MECHANISM OF ACTION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILIZATION; METHYL GROUP; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; OUTER MEMBRANE; PATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; PHYSIOLOGICAL SALT; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; POLYMETHACRYLATES; PRIMARY FACTORS; S. AUREUS; SIDE-CHAINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA; BACTERICIDES; BLOOD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; PEPTIDES; POLYMERS;

BIOMIMETICS;

EID: 83655193317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym3031512     Document Type: Article

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