LYTIC ACTIVITY OF MONOMERIC AND OLIGOMERIC MELITTIN
LYTIC ACTIVITY OF MONOMERIC AND OLIGOMERIC MELITTIN
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DOI:
10.1016/0005-2736(83)90473-x
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
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TATHAM, AS
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作者:
HIDER, RC;KHADER, F;TATHAM, AS
The hemolytic activities of melittin and melittin tetramer as induced by high phosphate counterion concentration, were monitored. Monomeric melittin was fully lytic; tetrameric melittin lacked such activity. Under conditions where melittin was fully tetrameric attempts were made to covalently cross-link the native tetramer using a series of different chain length bifunctional imido esters. The cross-linked oligomers were fully lytic under conditions where melittin was demonstrated to lack such activity. This finding, together with MW determinations and circular dichroism studies, indicated that the cross-linked melittin was quite different from the native tetramer. The hemolytic activity of melittin-containing solutions was related to the concentration of monomeric melittin. The effect of reduced dielectric constant (.epsilon.) on the aggregation behavior of melittin and its derivatives was favored monomeric melittin.