Antimicrobial activity of cationic antimicrobial peptides against gram-positives: Current progress made in understanding the mode of action and the response of bacteria

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2016, Pages

  Omardien, Soraya ^a   Brul, Stanley ^a   Zaat, Sebastian A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Bacillus subtilis spores; Cationic antimicrobial peptides; Mode of action; Resistance mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006333310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2016.00111     Document Type: Review

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