Evidence for a novel mechanism of antimicrobial action of a cyclic R-,W-rich hexapeptide.

The development of antimicrobial peptides as new class of antibiotic agents requires structural characterisation and understanding of their diverse mechanisms of action. As the cyclic hexapeptide cWFW (cyclo(RRRWFW)) does not exert its rapid cell killing activity by membrane permeabilisation, in thi...

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Main Authors: Kathi Scheinpflug, Oxana Krylova, Heike Nikolenko, Charley Thurm, Margitta Dathe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4398456?pdf=render