Research Article

Synthetic Antimicrobial Peptides Exhibit Two Different Binding Mechanisms to the Lipopolysaccharides Isolated from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae

Figure 6

A representation of the proposed AMP-LPS “active site” which is consistent with the AMP adopting a helical conformation upon binding. Blue semicircles represent anionic sites on LPS. Green semicircles represent hydrophobic binding pockets on LPS.