Potassium release, a useful tool for studying antimicrobial peptides
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Production and Visualization of Bacterial Spheroplasts and Protoplasts to Characterize Antimicrobial Peptide Localization
Published on: August 11, 2018
Dmitri S Orlov1, Tung Nguyen, Robert I Lehrer
1Department of Medicine, UCLA Center for Health Sciences, 10833 LeConte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|March 1, 2002
Abstract:
We used an ion-selective electrode to measure potassium release from bacteria treated with antimicrobial peptides. This broadly applicable and simple technique for assessing membrane integrity deserves greater use.
