Direct cell penetration of the antifungal peptide, MMGP1, in Candida albicans

Journal of Peptide Science

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 657-660

  Pushpanathan, Muthuirulan ^a   Rajendhran, Jeyaprakash ^a   Jayashree, Sathyanarayanan ^a   Sundarakrishnan, Balakrishnan ^b   Jayachandran, Seetharaman ^b   Gunasekaran, Paramasamy ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antifungal peptide; Cell penetration; Fungicidal effect; Marine metagenome

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; MMGP1 PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SODIUM AZIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMICAL LABELING; CYTOTOXICITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS GROWTH; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL-PENETRATING PEPTIDES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 84867863452     PISSN: 10752617     EISSN: 10991387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psc.2445     Document Type: Article

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