Team:TU-Delft/PeptideCharacterization

Peptide Characterization

An important part of the project is inhibition of growth or killing of bacteria with the use of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). In order to get an idea of the toxicity of our peptides we conducted several minimal inhibiting concentration (MIC) experiments. These MIC measurements where done on E. coli, S. delphini and B. subtilis as respectively representatives for our expression host, the Staphylococcus family and Gram-positives. The AMPs Signiferin, maximin H5 and magainin were chosen from literature [1,2,3] as being active against staphylococcus species but not against E. coli in order to able to use the latter as the expression host.

References

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2. Lai R, Liu H, et al., An anionic antimicrobial peptide from toad Bombina maxima, Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 26;295(4):796-9, Jul 2002
3. M. Zasloff, Magainins, a class of antimicrobial peptides from Xenopus skin: isolation, characterization of two active forms, and partial cDNA sequence of a precursor, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.;84(15):5449-53 Aug 1987.
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