Juhi Sharma

β-Sheet Antimicrobial and Antimycobacterial Peptides with a High Therapeutic Index by Employing the Repeats of a 5-Mer Segment of α-Helical Cytolytic Melittin

Abstract Despite strong antimicrobial activity, high haemolytic/cytotoxic properties, associated with its non-cell-selective membrane-lytic property and its large size prohibits considering bee-venom, α-helical, 26-residue, melittin as a lead molecule for antimicrobial-drug devel...