Two Functional Motifs Define the Interaction, Internalization and Toxicity of the Cell-Penetrating Antifungal Peptide PAF26 on Fungal Cells

Concentration-dependent mechanisms of cell penetration and killing by the de novo designed antifungal hexapeptide PAF26

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Sensitivity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to the cell-penetrating antifungal peptide PAF26 correlates with endogenous nitric oxide (NO) production

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Antibiotic activities of host defense peptides: more to it than lipid bilayer perturbation

(2011) Miriam Wilmes et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Screening for Antifungal Peptides and Their Modes of Action in Aspergillus nidulans

(2010) D. Mania et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Membrane selectivity by W-tagging of antimicrobial peptides

(2010) Artur Schmidtchen et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

A genomic approach highlights common and diverse effects and determinants of susceptibility on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae exposed to distinct antimicrobial peptides

(2010) Belén López-García et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Problems and hopes in the development of drugs targeting the fungal cell wall

(2010) Vishukumar Aimanianda et al.   Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Permeabilization of Fungal Hyphae by the Plant Defensin NaD1 Occurs through a Cell Wall-dependent Process

(2010) Nicole L. van der Weerden et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Salivary histatin 5 internalization by translocation, but not endocytosis, is required for fungicidal activity in Candida albicans

(2010) Woong Sik Jang et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Inducible expression of beta defensins by human respiratory epithelial cells exposed to Aspergillus fumigatus organisms

(2009) Ludmila Alekseeva et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Antimicrobial peptides: to membranes and beyond

(2009) Jose F Marcos et al.   Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Multifunctional host defense peptides: intracellular-targeting antimicrobial peptides

(2009) Pierre Nicolas   FEBS Journal

End-Tagging of Ultra-Short Antimicrobial Peptides by W/F Stretches to Facilitate Bacterial Killing

(2009) Mukesh Pasupuleti et al.   PLoS One

Identification and Rational Design of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides for Plant Protection

(2008) Jose F. Marcos et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Efficient Clearance of Aspergillus fumigatus in Murine Lungs by an Ultrashort Antimicrobial Lipopeptide, Palmitoyl-Lys-Ala-DAla-Lys

(2008) A. Vallon-Eberhard et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Uptake of the antifungal cationic peptide Histatin 5 byCandida albicansSsa2p requires binding to non-conventional sites within the ATPase domain

(2008) Jianing N. Sun et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The Antimicrobial Peptide Histatin-5 Causes a Spatially Restricted Disruption on the Candida albicans Surface, Allowing Rapid Entry of the Peptide into the Cytoplasm

(2008) A. Brian Mochon et al.   PLoS Pathogens