Описание: Part I: Properties, Design, Synthesis and Characterization of AMPs
1. Antimicrobial Peptides: An Introduction
Evan F. Haney, Sarah C. Mansour, and Robert E.W. Hancock
2. Tools for Designing Amphipathic Helical Antimicrobial Peptides
Davor Juretic, Damir Vukičevic, and Alessandro Tossi
3. Chemical Synthesis of Antimicrobial Peptides
Lena Mьnzker, Alberto Oddo and Paul R. Hansen
4. Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Antimicrobial Peptides
Suhas Ramesh, Beatriz G. de la Torre, Fernando Albericio, Hendrik G. Kruger, and Thavendran Govender
5. High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry-Based Design of Protolytically Stable Antimicrobial Peptides
Mojtaba Bagheri and Robert E. W. Hancock
6. Determination of Structure and Micellar Interactions of Small Antimicrobial Peptides by Solution-State NMR
Reinhard Wimmer and Lars Erik Uggerh j
7. Mass Spectrometry Approaches for Determining the Structure of Antimicrobial Peptides
Jiongyu Liu and Jianping Jiang
Part II: Studying Interactions of AMPs with Model Membranes and Bacteria
8. Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Analysis of the Antimicrobial Peptides-Lipid Bilayers Interactions
Shima Arasteh and Mojtaba Bagheri
9. Calorimetry Methods to Study Membrane Interactions and Perturbations Induced by Antimicrobial Host Defense Peptides
Mauricio Arias, Elmar J. Prenner and Hans J. Vogel
10. Fluorescence and Absorbance Spectroscopy Methods to Study Membrane Perturbations by Antimicrobial Host Defense Peptides
Mauricio Arias and Hans J. Vogel
11. Applying Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy to Investigate Peptide-Induced Membrane Disruption Kasper Kristensen, Jonas R. Henriksen, and Thomas L. Andresen
12. Macromolecule Biosynthesis Assay and Fluorescence Spectroscopy Methods to Explore Antimicrobial Peptide Mode(s) of Action
Bimal Jana, Kristin Renee Baker, and Luca Guardabassi
13. Using Confocal Microscopy and Computational Modeling to Investigate the Cell Penetrating Properties of Antimicrobial Peptides
Gabriel Del Rio, Edda Klipp, and Andreas Herrmann
14. Atomic Force Microscopy Study of the Interactions of Indolicidin with Model Membranes and DNA
Peter Fojan and Leonid Gurevich
15. Protocols for studying the interaction of MSI-78 with the Membranes of Whole Gram-positive and Gram-negative Bacteria by NMR
Nury P. Santisteban, M. R. Morrow, and V. Booth
16. Preparation of membrane models of Gram-negative bacteria and their interaction with Antimicrobial Peptides studied by CD and NMR
Rickey P. Hicks
17. Studying the Interaction of Magainin 2 and Cecropin A with E. coli Bacterial Cells using Circular Dichroism
Concetta Avitabile, Luca Domenico DAndrea and Alessandra Romanelli
18. Studying the Mechanism of Membrane Permeabilization induced by Antimicrobial Peptides using Patch-clamp Techniques
Giorgio Rispoli
19. Assays for Identifying Inducers of the Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37
Frank Nylen, Peter Bergman, Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson, and Birgitta Agerberth
20. Methods for Elucidating the Mechanism of Action of Proline-rich and other Non-lytic Antimicrobial Peptides
Monica Benincasa, Giulia Runti, Mario Mardirossian, Renato Gennaro, and Marco Scocchi
21. The Interaction of Antimicrobial Peptides with the Membrane and Intracellular Targets of Staphylococcus Aureus Investigated by ATP-leakage, DNA-binding Analysis and the Expression of a LexA Controlled Gene, recA
Sanne Gottschalk and Line Elnif Thomsen
Part III: Assaying Selected
