This article is dedicated to the memory of Elkan Blout, a world class scientist, an uncommon man, and a great friend of our family. Following the first meeting in 1970 at a Gordon conference on peptides, Elkan Blout and Yuri Ovchinnikov, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, became increasingly friendly and soon very close friends who visited each other many times in laboratories and homes. In 1976 Elkan Blout was elected a Foreign Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The major research interests of Elkan Blout included peptides structural analysis. The present work focuses on study of the marine invertebrate peptide arenicin. The syntagm “marine” and “peptide” brings nice memories about Elkan as a proficient captain of his sailboat “Peptide”. I also remember Elkan during the FEBS meeting in Moscow in 1984, when he planted trees near a new building of our Institute among a bevy of world-renowned scientists, such as Linus Pauling and Dorothy Hodgkin. Elkan Blout was a remarkable man with many outstanding qualities, and he will long be remembered by scientists from around the world.
You have free access to this content
Molecular insight into mechanism of antimicrobial action of the β-hairpin peptide arenicin: Specific oligomerization in detergent micelles †
Article first published online: 15 OCT 2007
DOI: 10.1002/bip.20865
Copyright © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Issue

Biopolymers
Special Issue: This issue is dedicated to the memory of Elkan R. Blout, a founding editor of Biopolymers
Volume 89, Issue 5, pages 455–464, May 2008
Additional Information
How to Cite
Ovchinnikova, T. V., Shenkarev, Z. O., Balandin, S. V., Nadezhdin, K. D., Paramonov, A. S., Kokryakov, V. N. and Arseniev, A. S. (2008), Molecular insight into mechanism of antimicrobial action of the β-hairpin peptide arenicin: Specific oligomerization in detergent micelles . Biopolymers, 89: 455–464. doi: 10.1002/bip.20865
- †
Publication History
- Issue published online: 28 FEB 2008
- Article first published online: 15 OCT 2007
- Manuscript Accepted: 5 OCT 2007
- Manuscript Revised: 22 SEP 2007
- Manuscript Received: 31 JUL 2007
Funded by
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Grant Numbers: 06-04-49409, 06-04-08267
- Russian Federal Agency for Science and Innovations. Grant Number: 02.522.11.2007
REFERENCES
- 1
- 2
- 3;;;;;;; Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006, 348, 514–523.
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10;; Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1997, 118, 515–521.
- 11
- 12;;;;;;;; Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007, 360, 156–162.
- 13
- 14NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids; Wiley: New York, 1986.
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20;;;;;; Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998, 247, 674–680.
- 21
- 22
- 23;;;;;; Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000, 277, 575–580.
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38;;;; Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006, 103, 16242–16247.
- 39
- 40
- 41;;;; Protein NMR Spectroscopy: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed.; Academic Press: New York, 2006.
- 42

1097-0282/asset/BIP_left.gif?v=1&s=f807857598ff440ee8acab64bad01b412bcbb591)