Colistin has been regarded as the last line antibiotic for treatment of infections caused by multidrug resistant gram-negative bacteria. Therefore, the increasing emergence of colistin resistance among gram-negative b...
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In this work, the role of the disulfide bridges in the maintenance of the secondary structure of the antimicrobial peptides androctonin, poly-phemusin-I, and thanatin is analyzed on the basis of their structural chara...