Development and challenges of antimicrobial peptides for therapeutic applications

CH Chen, TK Lu - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
More than 3000 antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been discovered, seven of which have
been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Now commercialized, these …

[HTML][HTML] The gramicidin ion channel: a model membrane protein

DA Kelkar, A Chattopadhyay - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2007 - Elsevier
The linear peptide gramicidin forms prototypical ion channels specific for monovalent
cations and has been extensively used to study the organization, dynamics and function of …

Predicting slow structural transitions in macromolecular systems: Conformational flooding

H Grubmüller - Physical Review E, 1995 - APS
We present a method to predict complex structural (conformational) transitions in irregular or
disordered macromolecular systems, such as proteins or glasses, at the atomic level. Our …

The biophysics of peptide models of ion channels

MS Sansom - Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 1991 - Elsevier
1. General Introduction 2. An Introduction to Ion Channels (a) General properties of ion
channels (i) Fundamental properties (ii) Planar bilayer electrophysiology (iii) Physiological …

Model ion channels: gramicidin and alamethicin

G Andrew Woolley, BA Wallace - The Journal of membrane biology, 1992 - Springer
Ion channels control the flux of ions across lipid bilayers in an extremely sensitive and
specific manner. From a description of selective permeability (Bernstein, 1912), made more …

[BOOK][B] Molecular and cellular biophysics

MB Jackson - 2006 - books.google.com
Molecular and Cellular Biophysics provides advanced undergraduate and graduate
students with a foundation in the basic concepts of biophysics. Students who have taken …

A lattice relaxation algorithm for three-dimensional Poisson-Nernst-Planck theory with application to ion transport through the gramicidin A channel

MG Kurnikova, RD Coalson, P Graf, A Nitzan - Biophysical Journal, 1999 - cell.com
A lattice relaxation algorithm is developed to solve the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP)
equations for ion transport through arbitrary three-dimensional volumes. Calculations of …

Gas-phase infrared spectroscopy of neutral peptides: Insights from the far-IR and THz domain

S Bakels, MP Gaigeot, AM Rijs - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Gas-phase, double resonance IR spectroscopy has proven to be an excellent approach to
obtain structural information on peptides ranging from single amino acids to large peptides …

Mixed atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics: simulation of a membrane-bound ion channel

Q Shi, S Izvekov, GA Voth - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006 - ACS Publications
The recently developed multiscale coarse-graining (MS-CG) method (Izvekov, S.; Voth, GAJ
Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 2469; J. Chem. Phys. 2005, 123, 134105) is used to build a mixed …

Synthetic models of cation-conducting channels

GW Gokel, A Mukhopadhyay - Chemical Society Reviews, 2001 - pubs.rsc.org
Modern channel proteins are complex in structure and marvelous in function. The earliest
channels cannot possibly have been so complex but they must have functioned at some …