Items for "amphipathicity"

Lactoferrampin, an antimicrobial peptide of bovine lactoferrin, exerts its candidacidal activity by a cluster of positively charged residues at the C-terminus in combination with a helix-facilitating N-terminal part

The antimicrobial activity of bovine lactoferrin (bLF) is attributed to lactoferricin, which is situated in the N1-domain of bLF...

Keywords: ?-helix, amphipathicity, antimicrobial peptide, Candida albicans, lactoferrampin, lactoferrin