Search Results - "Vermeer, Louic"
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Vectofusin-1, a potent peptidic enhancer of viral gene transfer forms pH-dependent α-helical nanofibrils, concentrating viral particles
Published in Acta biomaterialia (01-12-2017)“…[Display omitted] Gene transfer using lentiviral vectors has therapeutic applications spanning from monogenic and infectious diseases to cancer. Such gene…”
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Long-term cultivation-independent microbial diversity analysis demonstrates that bacterial communities infecting the adult cystic fibrosis lung show stability and resilience
Published in Thorax (01-10-2012)“…Culture-independent analysis of the respiratory secretions of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) has identified many bacterial species not previously detected…”
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Antimicrobial Peptide Potency is Facilitated by Greater Conformational Flexibility when Binding to Gram-negative Bacterial Inner Membranes
Published in Scientific reports (22-11-2016)“…The interaction of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the inner membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is a key determinant of their abilities to exert diverse…”
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Combined systems approaches reveal highly plastic responses to antimicrobial peptide challenge in Escherichia coli
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-05-2014)“…Obtaining an in-depth understanding of the arms races between peptides comprising the innate immune response and bacterial pathogens is of fundamental interest…”
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Conformational Flexibility Determines Selectivity and Antibacterial, Antiplasmodial, and Anticancer Potency of Cationic α-Helical Peptides
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (05-10-2012)“…We used a combination of fluorescence, circular dichroism (CD), and NMR spectroscopies in conjunction with size exclusion chromatography to help rationalize…”
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Simultaneous Analysis of Secondary Structure and Light Scattering from Circular Dichroism Titrations: Application to Vectofusin-1
Published in Scientific reports (22-12-2016)“…Circular Dichroism data are often decomposed into their constituent spectra to quantify the secondary structure of peptides or proteins but the estimation of…”
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NMR Metabolomics of MTLn3E Breast Cancer Cells Identifies a Role for CXCR4 in Lipid and Choline Regulation
Published in Journal of proteome research (04-05-2012)“…The alpha chemokine receptor CXCR4 is up-regulated in certain types of breast cancer. Truncation of the C-terminus of this receptor alters cell morphology and…”
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Author Correction: Antimicrobial Peptide Potency is Facilitated by Greater Conformational Flexibility when Binding to Gram-negative Bacterial Inner Membranes
Published in Scientific reports (19-11-2018)“…A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper…”
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Manipulating the pH response of 2,3-diaminopropionic acid rich peptides to mediate highly effective gene silencing with low-toxicity
Published in Journal of controlled release (28-12-2013)“…Cationic amphipathic pH responsive peptides possess high in vitro and in vivo nucleic acid delivery capabilities and function by forming a non-covalent complex…”
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Control of pH responsive peptide self-association during endocytosis is required for effective gene transfer
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-05-2012)“…Cationic amphipathic histidine rich peptides demonstrate differential nucleic acid binding capabilities at neutral and acidic pH and adopt conformations at…”
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Incorporation of 2,3-Diaminopropionic Acid into Linear Cationic Amphipathic Peptides Produces pH-Sensitive Vectors
Published in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology (14-06-2010)“…Nonviral vectors that harness the change in pH in endosomes, are increasingly being used to deliver cargoes, including nucleic acids, into mammalian cells…”
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A relationship between Pseudomonal growth behaviour and cystic fibrosis patient lung function identified in a metabolomic investigation
Published in Metabolomics (01-12-2013)“…Chronic polymicrobial lung infections in adult cystic fibrosis patients are typically dominated by high levels of Pseudomonas aeruginosa . Determining the…”
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Structural properties of a peptide derived from H +-V-ATPase subunit a
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-05-2009)“…The 3D structure of a peptide derived from the putative transmembrane segment 7 (TM7) of subunit a from H +-V-ATPase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been…”
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Conformation of a Peptide Encompassing the Proton Translocation Channel of Vacuolar H +-ATPase
Published in Biophysical journal (01-01-2007)“…The structural properties of a crucial transmembrane helix for proton translocation in vacuolar ATPase are studied using double site-directed spin-labeling…”
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Acyl chain order parameter profiles in phospholipid bilayers: computation from molecular dynamics simulations and comparison with 2H NMR experiments
Published in European biophysics journal (01-11-2007)“…Order parameters from deuterium NMR are often used to validate or calibrate molecular dynamics simulations. This paper gives a short overview of the literature…”
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Decomposition of ESR Spectra Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry
Published in Analytical chemistry (Washington) (01-08-2006)“…ESR (or EPR) spectroscopy on spin-labeled site-directed cysteine mutants is ideally suited for structural studies of membrane proteins due to its high…”
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Incorporation of 2,3-diaminopropionic acid in linear cationic amphipathic peptides produces pH sensitive vectors
Published in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology (14-06-2010)“…Non-viral vectors that harness the change in pH in endosomes are increasingly being used to deliver cargoes, including nucleic acids, to mammalian cells. Here…”
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Solution and Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Structural Investigations of the Antimicrobial Designer Peptide GL13K in Membranes
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (15-08-2017)“…The antimicrobial peptide GL13K encompasses 13 amino acid residues and has been designed and optimized from the salivary protein BPIFA2 to exhibit potent…”
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The measurement of the β/α anomer composition within amorphous lactose prepared by spray and freeze drying using a simple (1)H-NMR method
Published in Pharmaceutical research (01-02-2012)“…Reports of the anomeric composition of amorphous lactose are rare and state a highly variable range of composition (between 0% and 60% w/w β content). We aimed…”
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Cell-Penetrating Peptides with Antimicrobial, Transfection and Transduction Activities
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