Inlaboratory tests, Nyholm's team, led by former graduate students Allison Kerwin and Andrea Suria, showed that if the bacterial coating is absent, the growing squid eggs succumb to fungal infections. Balunas' group made chemical extracts from the bacteria and showed that they containedantimicrobial...
2.1. Classification of AMPs The selectivity and antimicrobial potency of AMPs towards microbes are determined by structural parameters including net charge and structural conformation [26,27]. Although structurally based classifications are generally used to divide AMPs into subgroups, AMPs may also be ...