Antimicrobial Mechanisms of Model Biocides via Their Interaction with Lipopolysaccharides Studied by Neutron Reflection

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The global increase of bacterial resistance to antibiotics has led to increasing interest in research focusing on the development and characterization of new antimicrobial agents. One class of promising antimicrobials found in nature are Antimicrobial Peptides (AMP’s). In contrast to most existing biocides, it is thought that AMPs would share broadly similar modes of membrane disruption. We have designed a novel class of AMPs with the general sequence G(IIKK)nI-NH2, with n = 3-4, denoted as G3 and G4. We propose to compare the binding of these peptides to the spread LPS monolayer with the performance from model biocides SDS, DTAB and trichosan, to identify any structural differences in their membrane attacking processes.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.89608378
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/89608378
Provenance
Creator Mr KE FA; Professor Jian Lu; Dr Arwel Hughes; Dr Luke Clifton; Miss Daniela Ciumac; Dr Meiwen Cao; Mr Haoning Gong; Dr Mario Campana
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-06T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-09T09:00:00Z