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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2020

A Rapid Fluorescence-Based Microplate Assay to Investigate the Interaction of Membrane Active Antimicrobial Peptides with Whole Gram-Positive Bacteria.

Gerard Boix-Lemonche, Maria Lekka, Barbara Skerlavaj

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gerard Boix-LemoncheDepartment of Medicine, University of Udine, piazzale Kolbe, 4, 33100 Udine, Italy.
Maria LekkaPolytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy.
Barbara SkerlavajDepartment of Medicine, University of Udine, piazzale Kolbe, 4, 33100 Udine, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0437-802X
University of Udine · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMembrane-active antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are interesting candidates for the development of novel antimicrobials. Although their effects were extensively investigated in model membrane systems, interactions of AMPs with living microbial membranes are less known due to their complexity. The aim of the present study was to develop a rapid fluorescence-based microplate assay to analyze the membrane effects of AMPs in whole

methodsBacteria were exposed to bactericidal and sub-inhibitory concentrations of two membrane-active AMPs in the presence of the potential-sensitive dye 3,3'-dipropylthiadicarbocyanine iodide (diSC

resultsThe ion channel-forming gramicidin D induced a rapid increase of diSC

conclusionsThis assay allowed the distinction between specific membrane effects, and it could be applied in the mode of action studies as well as in the screening of novel membrane-active AMPs.

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antimicrobial peptidesFE-SEMfluorescence-based assaymembrane depolarizationmembrane permeabilizationmicroplate readerpotentiometric dyepropidium iodideStaphylococcus spp.

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PMID32093104
PMCPMC7168298
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