Article
Interactions between magainin 2 and Salmonella typhimurium outer membranes: effect of lipopolysaccharide structure.
Biochemistry - 18 Jun 1991
Rana F R, Macias E A, Sultany C M, Modzrakowski M C, Blazyk J
Abstract excerpt
The role of the outer membrane and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the interaction between the small cationic antimicrobial peptide magainin 2 and the Gram-negative cell envelope was studied by FT-IR spectroscopy. Magainin 2 alters the thermotropic properties of the outer membrane-peptidoglycan complexes from wild-type Salmonella typhimurium and a series of LPS mutants which display differential susceptibility to the...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides
- Carbohydrate Conformation
- Carbohydrate Sequence
- Cell Membrane
- Lipopolysaccharides
- Magainins
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Membrane Lipids
- Molecular Sequence Data
