Research Catalog

Title

Antimicrobial peptides / [editors, Joan Marsh and Jamie A. Goode].

Publication

Chichester, Eng. ; New York : J. Wiley, 1994.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Ciba Foundation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023182
• Goode, Jamie.
• Marsh, Joan.
• Symposium on Antimicrobial Peptides (1994 : Ciba Foundation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94051696

Description

viii, 283 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 186

Uniform Title

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 186.

Subjects

• Peptides > therapeutic use
• Protein drugs > Congresses
• Peptides > Therapeutic use > Congresses
• Congress
• Microbial peptides > Congresses
• Anti-infective agents > Congresses
• Proteins > therapeutic use
• Anti-Infective Agents

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "Symposium on Antimicrobial Peptides, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 18-20 January 1994."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Chairman's opening remarks / H. G. Boman -- Design and synthesis of antimicrobial peptides / R. B. Merrifield, E. L. Merrifield, P. Juvvadi, D. Andreu and H. G. Boman -- Gene-encoded antibiotics made in bacteria / H. G. Sahl -- General discussion I: Assaying antimicrobial activity -- Biosynthesis of defensins and other antimicrobial peptides / T. Ganz -- Antimicrobial peptides from amphibian skin: an overview / G. Kreil -- Gene-encoded antimicrobial peptides from plants / B. P. A. Cammue, M. F. C. De Bolle, H. M. E. Schoofs, F. R. G. Terras, K. Thevissen, R. W. Osborn, S. B. Rees and W. F. Broekaert -- Drosophila as a model system for antibacterial peptides / D. Hultmark -- Function of antimicrobial proteins in insects / S. Natori -- General discussion II: Antimicrobial peptides from bees -- Antibacterial peptides in insect vectors of tropical parasitic disease / P. J. Ham, C. Albuquerque, B. Smithies, R. Chalk, S. Klager and H. Hagen.
• Structure-function relationships of tachyplesins and their analogues / S. Iwanaga, T. Muta, T. Shigenaga, N. Seki, K. Kawano, T. Katsu and S.-I. Kawabata -- Bactericidal permeability-increasing protein in host defence against Gram-negative bacteria and endotoxin / P. Elsbach -- General discussion III -- Mechanism of membrane permeation by cecropin B2 -- Potential therapeutic applications of magainins and other antimicrobial agents of animal origin / I. Jacob and M. Zasloff -- Primitive vertebrate immunity: what is the evolutionary derivation of molecules that define the adaptive immune system? / M. F. Flajnik -- Antimicrobial proteins with homology to serine proteases / J. E. Gabay -- Antimicrobial peptides as agents of mucosal immunity / C. L. Bevins -- Closing remarks / H. G. Boman.

ISBN

0471950254 :

LCCN

94021647

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries