Physiologically-relevant modes of membrane interactions by the human antimicrobial peptide, LL-37, revealed by SFG experiments

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ding, Bei ^a   Soblosky, Lauren ^a   Nguyen, Khoi ^a   Geng, Junqing ^a,b   Yu, Xinglong ^b   Ramamoorthy, Ayyalusamy ^a   Chen, Zhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CATHELICIDIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LIPID BILAYER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CATHELICIDINS; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR;

EID: 84878713935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01854     Document Type: Article

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