Effect of amino acid substitution in amp
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Takuro Niidome; Shingo Anzai; Junko Sonoda; Yoko Tokunaga; Masaaki Nakahara; Tom
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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It was previously found that a cationic amphiphilic peptide, Ac-(Leu-Ala-Arg-Leu) 3 -NHCH 3 (4 3 ), caused the destabilization of a phospholipid membrane and showed strong antibacterial activity [Lee et al. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1986; 862: 211 -219]. In order to investigate the effect of changing h