A comparative NR study of interaction of short designed antimicrobial peptides to accurate gram negative and red blood cells model membranes

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The global increase of bacterial resistance to antibiotics has led to increasing interest in research focusing on the development and characterization of new antimicrobial agents. One class of promising antimicrobials found in nature are Antimicrobial Peptides (AMP’s) [1]. In contrast to most existing therapeutic antimicrobials, and so it is thought that resistance would be far more difficult to develop to AMP’s. We have designed a novel class of AMP's with the general sequence G(IIKK)nI-NH2, with n-the number of coils of α-helix (n=2-4). In a recent experiment we have studies the interaction of these peptides with floating bilayers intended to mimic gram negtive of eukaryotic membranes, and obesrved changes to membrane structure on binding. In this experiment we wish to extend this preliminary work by studying the concentration dependence of peptide interaction with membranes.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.83552997
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/83552997
Provenance
Creator Dr Andrew Caruana; Mr Haoning Gong; Mr Charles Smith; Dr Luke Clifton; Miss Daniela Ciumac; Dr Arwel Hughes; Professor Jian Lu
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-12-06T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-12-09T08:00:00Z