Organizations of melittin peptides after spontaneous penetration into cell membranes

L Sun, S Wang, F Tian, H Zhu, L Dai - Biophysical Journal, 2022 - cell.com
… In this work, we use multiscale molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the melittin
We choose six simulations to calculate the energies of LJ and electrostatic interactions. …

Applications and evolution of melittin, the quintessential membrane active peptide

S Guha, RP Ferrie, J Ghimire, CR Ventura, E Wu… - Biochemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
… action of the C-terminal melittin sequence through electrostatic interactions with the five basic
residues of … In solution, melittin molecules are monomeric and have random coil structure …

Opposite Regulatory Effects of Immobilized Cations on the Folding Vs. Assembly of Melittin

L Yu, Z Deng, W Zhang, S Liu, F Zhang, J Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… on the molecular recognition of melittin, we further compared the interactions of melittin-WT/-…
the potency of melittin to interact and disrupt the eukaryotic cell membrane, including the …

Mechanism of Leakage in Phosphatidylserine-Containing Membranes by Melittin

R Wang, MY Shi, BB Ma, J Sheng - Molecular Biology, 2022 - Springer
… numbers of melittin molecules interacted with lipid membranes, melittin caused a strong
disturbance to the membranes’ … of interactions between melittin and PS-containing phospholipid …

Membrane perturbation of fullerene and graphene oxide distinguished by pore-forming peptide melittin

C Zhang, Y Ge, X Lu, Z Chen, J Liu, M Zhang, K Yang… - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
… peptide, as a testing molecule we demonstrated that even the … still mechanically perturb a
cell membrane by adsorption and … in membrane is crucial during the membrane interaction

Melittin–Phospholipase A2 Synergism Is Mediated by Liquid–Liquid Miscibility Phase Transition in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

S Min, C Picou, HJ Jeong, A Bower, K Jeong… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
… dimension of the collaborative effects of melittin and PLA 2 . … , stronger interactions
between PLA 2 and membranes were … times, at membrane defects as observed by single-molecule

Design of a hybrid peptide derived from Melittin and CXCL14–C17: a molecular dynamics simulation study

S Farajnia, L Rahbarnia, N Khajehnasiri, H Zarredar - Biologia, 2022 - Springer
… 30%) and a positive charge (+ 2 to + 9) which lead to amphipathic conformations in interaction
with cell membranes. The AMPs bind to phospholipids' negatively charged head groups …

[HTML][HTML] Melittin-solid phospholipid mixed films trigger amyloid-like nano-fibril arrangements at air-water interface

AB Alvarez, B Caruso, SB Petersen… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
… of different cooperative lipid-peptide complexes at the interface, the … the interaction of the
cationic and amphipathic melittin … the melittin peptide is inserted into a membrane environment …

Water dynamics around proteins: T-and R-states of hemoglobin and melittin

M Pezzella, K El Hage, MJM Niesen… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… orientations that correspond to those found at an ideal hydrophobic surface. Hydrophilic
surfaces interact with interfacial water molecules and lead to configurational distributions that …

[HTML][HTML] Substituting azobenzene for proline in melittin to create photomelittin: A light-controlled membrane active peptide

CR Ventura, GR Wiedman - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2021 - Elsevier
… One study found that at high concentrations, only melittin molecules … Photomelittin
interaction with membranes … and melittin, we sought to explore any differences in membrane