Browsing by Author "Hicks, Rickey P."
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Elucidating the Mechanism of Action of Unnatural Amino Acid Containing Antimicrobial Peptides in Membrane Environments
Clark, Tiffany D. (East Carolina University, 2012)Organism resistance continues to develop to the currently available antimicrobial compounds necessitating the development of innovative new therapeutic compounds with different specificities and mechanisms of action that ... -
SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF BINDING MECHANISMS BETWEEN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES AND MODELS OF THE MEMBRANES OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA AND KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE
Chai, Hanbo (East Carolina University, 2014)The wide application of antibiotics goes back over sixty years to the first use of penicillin in the mid-1940s. Antimicrobial agents have well-documented activity and have played a significant role in defending against ... -
Synthetic Antimicrobial Peptides Exhibit Two Different Binding Mechanisms to the Lipopolysaccharides Isolated from and
Chai, Hanbo; Allen, William E.; Hicks, Rickey P. (2014) -
Thermodynamic and Spectroscopic Investigations of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides containing Unnatural Amino Acids with Model Membrane Systems
Russell, Amanda Laura (East Carolina University, 2011)With the over prescription and use of antibiotic drugs the evolution of drug resistant bacteria strains has become a world wide health crisis. In response to this crisis, the search for new drugs to kill bacteria via a ...