Molecular Basis for Membrane Selectivity of Antimicrobial Peptide Pleurocidin in the Presence of Different Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Model Membranes
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00245
Abstract: Pleurocidin, a 25-residue cationic peptide, has antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungi but exhibits very low hemolytic activity against human red blood cells (RBC). The peptide inserts into the bacterial membrane and causes the membrane… read more here.
Keywords: basis membrane; molecular basis; pleurocidin; model membranes ... See more keywords