Antimicrobial and host-defense peptides as new anti-infective therapeutic strategies.
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...Please note however that cation-adjusted MHB should not be used when testing the activity of cationic antimicrobial peptides, as the presence of Ca 2+ and Mg 2+ ions causes a substantial inhibition of the cationic peptides' activit...
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...Antimicrobial peptides are short cationic peptides that are thought to kill through interactions with the membrane that result in pore formatio...
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...jpg"/> Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are produced by multicellular organisms as a defence mechanism against competing pathogenic microbe...
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...dtd" [ ]> Short cationic amphiphilic peptides are present in virtually every life form as Nature's antibiotic...
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...Indeed, the action of many peptides cannot be explained by disruption of membrane permeability barriers, as discussed in several review...
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...Several complex and controversial models describe these subsequent events, including the reorientation of peptide molecules perpendicular to the membrane to form either barrel-stave or toroidal channels, the breakdown of membrane integrity as a result of the swamping of membrane charge by a 'carpet' of peptides at the interface, the detergent-like dissolution of patches of membrane and the formation of peptide-lipid aggregates within the bilaye...
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