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A two-dimensional NMR study of the antimicrobial peptide magainin 2
1Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892.
FEBS Letters
|January 18, 1988
Abstract:
Using two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy, a complete 1H resonance assignment has been obtained for the peptide magainin 2 recently isolated from Xenopus laevis. It is demonstrated that this peptide adopts an alpha-helical structure with amphiphilic character when dissolved in a mixture of trifluoroethanol (TFE) and H2O. The transition to the alpha-helical conformation occurs at very low concentrations of TFE.