Elucidating the mechanism of peptide interaction with membranes using the intrinsic fluorescence of tryptophan: Perpendicular penetration of cecropin B-like peptides into Pseudomonas aeruginosa

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 14214-14220

  Abou Zied, Osama K ^a   Barbour, Abdelahhad ^b   Al Sharji, Nada A ^a   Philip, Koshy ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANES; MIXING; MOLECULES; VIRUSES;

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; DEGREE OF FLEXIBILITY; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEMS; INTRINSIC FLUORESCENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STERN-VOLMER CONSTANTS; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS;

PEPTIDES;

EID: 84922749992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra15246h     Document Type: Article

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