The SMART model: Soft Membranes Adapt and Respond, also Transiently, in the presence of antimicrobial peptides

Molecular dynamics methods to predict peptide locations in membranes: LAH4 as a stringent test case

(2015) A. Farrotti et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

How Many AMP Molecules Kill a Bacterium? Spectroscopic Determination of PMAP-23 Binding to E. Coli

(2015) Daniela Roversi et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Structure Activity Relationship for a Synergistic Pair of Antimicrobial Peptides from the Magainin Family

(2015) Jonathan Zerweck et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Additivity and synergy between an antimicrobial peptide and inhibitory ions

(2014) William F. Walkenhorst et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Membrane Interactions of Phylloseptin-1, -2, and -3 Peptides by Oriented Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

(2014) Jarbas M. Resende et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Lipid interactions of LAH4, a peptide with antimicrobial and nucleic acid transfection activities

(2014) Barbara Perrone et al.   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

Small Molecular Antibacterial Peptoid Mimics: The Simpler the Better!

(2014) Chandradhish Ghosh et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Molecular Packing of Amphipathic Peptides on the Surface of Lipid Membranes

(2014) Christopher Aisenbrey et al.   LANGMUIR

The single GUV method for revealing the functions of antimicrobial, pore-forming toxin, and cell-penetrating peptides or proteins

(2014) Md. Zahidul Islam et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Small cationic antimicrobial peptides delocalize peripheral membrane proteins

(2014) M. Wenzel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Solid State NMR Strategy for Characterizing Native Membrane Protein Structures

(2013) Dylan T. Murray et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Influences of Membrane Mimetic Environments on Membrane Protein Structures

(2013) Huan-Xiang Zhou et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Synergistic Insertion of Antimicrobial Magainin-Family Peptides in Membranes Depends on the Lipid Spontaneous Curvature

(2013) Erik Strandberg et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Nylon-3 Polymers with Selective Antifungal Activity

(2013) Runhui Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nature-Inspired Antimicrobial Polymers – Assessment of Their Potential for Biomedical Applications

(2013) Ali Al-Ahmad et al.   PLoS One

Allosteric regulation of SERCA by phosphorylation-mediated conformational shift of phospholamban

(2013) M. Gustavsson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Lipid Dependence of Antimicrobial Peptide Activity Is an Unreliable Experimental Test for Different Pore Models

(2012) Sara Bobone et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Lipid shape is a key factor for membrane interactions of amphipathic helical peptides

(2012) Erik Strandberg et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Membrane thickness and the mechanism of action of the short peptaibol trichogin GA IV

(2012) S. Bobone et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Reorientation and Dimerization of the Membrane-Bound Antimicrobial Peptide PGLa from Microsecond All-Atom MD Simulations

(2012) Jakob P. Ulmschneider et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Peptoids: Bio-Inspired Polymers as Potential Pharmaceuticals

(2012) Michelle T. Dohm et al.   CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN

Strategies for the Discovery and Advancement of Novel Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides

(2012) E. B. Hadley et al.   CURRENT TOPICS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Trivalent Ultrashort Lipopeptides are Potent pH Dependent Antifungal Agents

(2012) Christopher J. Arnusch et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Lipid-Controlled Peptide Topology and Interactions in Bilayers: Structural Insights into the Synergistic Enhancement of the Antimicrobial Activities of PGLa and Magainin 2

(2011) Evgeniy S. Salnikov et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Insights into the mechanisms of action of host defence peptides from biophysical and structural investigations

(2011) Burkhard Bechinger   JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Spontaneous Buckling of Lipid Bilayer and Vesicle Budding Induced by Antimicrobial Peptide Magainin 2: A Coarse-Grained Simulation Study

(2011) Hyung-June Woo et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Structure and dynamics of cationic membrane peptides and proteins: Insights from solid-state NMR

(2011) Mei Hong et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Structural determinants of antimicrobial activity in polymers which mimic host defense peptides

(2010) Edmund F. Palermo et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

The structural and topological analysis of membrane-associated polypeptides by oriented solid-state NMR spectroscopy: Established concepts and novel developments

(2010) Burkhard Bechinger et al.   BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

NMR Structures of the Histidine-Rich Peptide LAH4 in Micellar Environments: Membrane Insertion, pH-Dependent Mode of Antimicrobial Action, and DNA Transfection

(2010) Julia Georgescu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Metal-Assisted Channel Stabilization: Disposition of a Single Histidine on the N-terminus of Alamethicin Yields Channels with Extraordinarily Long Lifetimes

(2010) Daisuke Noshiro et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Host defense peptides and their antimicrobial-immunomodulatory duality

(2010) Lars Steinstraesser et al.   IMMUNOBIOLOGY

Multivalent Antimicrobial Peptides as Therapeutics: Design Principles and Structural Diversities

(2010) S. P. Liu et al.   International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics

Kinetic Pathway of Antimicrobial Peptide Magainin 2-Induced Pore Formation in Lipid Membranes

(2010) Yukihiro Tamba et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Structure-Activity Relationships of Multifunctional Host Defence Peptides

(2010) J. Kindrachuk et al.   MINI-REVIEWS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Orientational Landscapes of Peptides in Membranes: Prediction of2H NMR Couplings in a Dynamic Context

(2009) Santi Esteban-Martín et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Evidence of pores and thinned lipid bilayers induced in oriented lipid membranes interacting with the antimicrobial peptides, magainin-2 and aurein-3.3

(2009) Chul Kim et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Solid-state NMR approaches to measure topological equilibria and dynamics of membrane polypeptides

(2009) Evgeniy Salnikov et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Membrane order perturbation in the presence of antimicrobial peptides by 2H solid-state NMR spectroscopy

(2009) Evgeniy S. Salnikov et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Structure and Membrane Interactions of the Antibiotic Peptide Dermadistinctin K by Multidimensional Solution and Oriented 15N and 31P Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

(2009) Rodrigo M. Verly et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Rationalizing the membrane interactions of cationic amphipathic antimicrobial peptides by their molecular shape

(2009) Burkhard Bechinger   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

The Roles of Antimicrobial Peptides in Innate Host Defense

(2009) Gill Diamond et al.   CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN

Orientation and dynamics of transmembrane peptides: the power of simple models

(2009) Andrea Holt et al.   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

Cationic amphiphilic peptides with cancer-selective toxicity

(2009) Frank Schweizer   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Membrane poration by antimicrobial peptides combining atomistic and coarse-grained descriptions

(2009) Andrzej J. Rzepiela et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

New strategies for novel antibiotics: peptides targeting bacterial cell membranes

(2009) K. Lohner   GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS

Novel peptide therapeutics for treatment of infections

(2009) P. C. F. Oyston et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Magainin 2-Induced Pore Formation in the Lipid Membranes Depends on Its Concentration in the Membrane Interface

(2009) Yukihiro Tamba et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Membrane structure and conformational changes of the antibiotic heterodimeric peptide distinctin by solid-state NMR spectroscopy

(2009) J. M. Resende et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Antimicrobial Lipopolypeptides Composed of Palmitoyl Di- and Tricationic Peptides:In Vitroandin VivoActivities, Self-Assembly to Nanostructures, and a Plausible Mode of Action†

(2008) Arik Makovitzki et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Melittin Interaction with Sulfated Cell Surface Sugars†

(2008) Gabriela Klocek et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Solid-State NMR Analysis Comparing the Designer-Made Antibiotic MSI-103 with Its Parent Peptide PGLa in Lipid Bilayers†

(2008) Erik Strandberg et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Antimicrobial peptide mimics for improved therapeutic properties

(2008) Shahar Rotem et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Membrane interactions of antimicrobial peptides from Australian frogs

(2008) David I. Fernandez et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

HELIQUEST: a web server to screen sequences with specific  -helical properties

(2008) R. Gautier et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Peptide Aggregation and Pore Formation in a Lipid Bilayer: A Combined Coarse-Grained and All Atom Molecular Dynamics Study

(2008) Lea Thøgersen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Structure and Alignment of the Membrane-Associated Peptaibols Ampullosporin A and Alamethicin by Oriented 15 N and 31 P Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

(2008) Evgeniy S. Salnikov et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Specific Isotope Labeling of Colicin E1 and B Channel Domains For Membrane Topological Analysis by Oriented Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

(2008) Christopher Aisenbrey et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

De novo designed synthetic mimics of antimicrobial peptides

(2008) Richard W Scott et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Host antimicrobial proteins as endogenous immunomodulators

(2008) Markus A. Hölzl et al.   IMMUNOLOGY LETTERS

Structural Determinants of Antimicrobial and Antiplasmodial Activity and Selectivity in Histidine-rich Amphipathic Cationic Peptides

(2008) A. James Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A Quantitative Model for the All-or-None Permeabilization of Phospholipid Vesicles by the Antimicrobial Peptide Cecropin A

(2007) Sonia M. Gregory et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL