The bacterial surface layer provides protection against antimicrobial peptides

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5452-5456

  de la Fuente Núñez, César ^a   Mertens, Jan ^a   Smit, John ^a   Hancock, Robert E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDES;

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; BACTERIAL SURFACES; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; S-LAYERS; SURVIVAL MECHANISMS;

MICROORGANISMS;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PEPTIDE; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SURVIVAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84866181146     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01493-12     Document Type: Article

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