Title: Antimicrobial peptides : methods and protocols /
Authors: Giuliano, Andrea.; Rinaldi, Andrea C.; Giuliani, Andrea.
Publisher: Humana ; Springer [distributor],
Year: 2010
Subjects: Anti-Infective Agents therapeutic use; Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides; Peptide antibiotics.; Microbial pesticides.; Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides therapeutic use; Anti-Infective Agents; Immunity, Innate
Contents: Antimicrobial peptides in frog skin secretions / J. Michael Conlon and Agnes Sonnevend -- Purification of antimicrobial peptides from human skin / Jens-M. Schröder -- Strategies for the isolation and characterization of antibacterial lantibiotics / Daniela Jabes and Stefano Donadio -- Expression and purification of recombinant [alpha]-defensins and [alpha]-defensin precursors in Escherichia coli / Sharel Figueredo [and others] -- Production of recombinant antimicrobial peptides in bacteria / Mateja Zorko and Roman Jerala -- Methods for building quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) descriptors and predictive models for computer-aided design of antimicrobial peptides / Olivier Taboureau -- Synthesis and thermodynamic characterization of small cyclic antimicrobial arginine and tryptophan-rich peptides with selectivity for gram-negative bacteria / Mojtaba Bagheri -- Synthesis of antimicrobial peptides using the SPOT technique / Dirk F.H. Winkler and Kai Hilpert --^