TY - JOUR AU - Abengózar, María Ángeles AU - Cebrián, Rubén AU - Saugar, Jose Maria AU - Garate, Teresa AU - Valdivia, Eva AU - Martínez-Bueno, Manuel AU - Maqueda, Mercedes AU - Rivas, Luis PY - 2017 DO - 10.1128/AAC.02288-16 SN - 0066-4804 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/7750 AB - We report the feasibility of enterocin AS-48, a circular cationic peptide produced by Enterococcus faecalis, as a new leishmanicidal agent. AS-48 is lethal to Leishmania promastigotes as well as to axenic and intracellular amastigotes at low... LA - eng PB - American Society for Microbiology (ASM) KW - Antimicrobial peptide KW - Bioenergetics KW - Enterocin AS-48 KW - Intracellular parasite KW - Adenosine Triphosphate KW - Antiprotozoal Agents KW - Bacteriocins KW - Cell Membrane KW - Cell Membrane Permeability KW - Cell Survival KW - Enterococcus faecalis KW - Fluorescent Dyes KW - Inhibitory Concentration 50 KW - Leishmania KW - Life Cycle Stages KW - Macrophages KW - Microscopy, Electron KW - Mitochondria KW - Species Specificity TI - Enterocin AS-48 as Evidence for the Use of Bacteriocins as New Leishmanicidal Agents TY - journal article ER -