Water‐membrane soluble protein and peptide toxins are used in the defense and offense
systems of all organisms, including plants and humans. A major group includes …

Biological membranes and membrane proteins, responsible for numerous exciting
biological processes, present one of the paramount challenges in biophysics today …

LL-37 is an amphipathic, α-helical, antimicrobial peptide. 15N chemical shift and 15N
dipolar− shift spectroscopy of site-specifically labeled LL-37 in oriented lipid bilayers …

The native environment of membrane proteins is complex and scientists have felt the need
to simplify it to reduce the number of varying parameters. However, experimental problems …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) of innate origin are agents of the most ancient form of
defense systems. They can be found in a wide variety of species ranging from bacteria …

Several complementary physical techniques have been used to characterize the aggregate
structures formed in solutions containing dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) …

LL-37 is a cationic, amphipathic α-helical antimicrobial peptide found in humans that kills
cells by disrupting the cell membrane. To disrupt membranes, antimicrobial peptides such …

Lytic peptides comprise a large group of membrane-active peptides used in the defensive
and offensive systems of all organisms. Differentiating between their modes of interaction …

Bicelles are an attractive membrane mimetic system because of their planar surface and
lipid composition, which resemble biological membranes. In addition, their orientation and …

Accurate determination of protein structures at the interface is essential to understand the
nature of interfacial protein interactions, but it can only be done with a few, very limited …