Antibacterial Activity of Short Peptides Based on Pleurocidin and Their Interaction with Phospholipid Membranes

Autor: Nobuaki Tsuda, Setsuko Ando, Haruhiko Aoyagi, Yoshiki Uchida, Tomomitsu Hatakeyama, Yukari Koba, Mitsuno Shindo
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 81:1299-1303
ISSN: 1348-0634
0009-2673
DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.81.1299
Popis: We have studied antibacterial activities of model peptides based on Pleurocidin (Ple). In this study, to investigate the effect of the C-terminal portion of these model peptides on antibacterial activity, we synthesized several short peptides which are devoid of the C-terminal four and more amino acid residues from the corresponding model peptides and examined their biological activities and behaviors against lipid and cell membranes. Removal of the C-terminal four residues resulted in maintained antibacterial activity and reduction of hemolytic activity.
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