Pierre Nicolas

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Best Publications

• Interaction of antimicrobial dermaseptin and its fluorescently labeled analogues with phospholipid membranes.

  Yehonathan Pouny;Doron Rapaport;Amram Mor;Pierre Nicolas

  923
  Citations

• PEPTIDES AS WEAPONS AGAINST MICROORGANISMS IN THE CHEMICAL DEFENSE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

  Pierre Nicolas;Amram Mor

  839
  Citations

• Multifunctional host defense peptides: intracellular-targeting antimicrobial peptides.

  Pierre Nicolas

  434
  Citations

• The vertebrate peptide antibiotics dermaseptins have overlapping structural features but target specific microorganisms.

  Amram Mor;Khaled Hani;P. Nicolas

  389
  Citations

• Antimicrobial peptides from hylid and ranin frogs originated from a 150‐million‐year‐old ancestral precursor with a conserved signal peptide but a hypermutable antimicrobial domain

  Damien Vanhoye;Francine Bruston;Pierre Nicolas;Mohamed Amiche

  333
  Citations

• Isolation and structure of novel defensive peptides from frog skin

  Amram Mor;Pierre Nicolas

  253
  Citations

• Precursors for peptide hormones share common secondary structures forming features at the proteolytic processing sites

  Mohamed Rholam;Pierre Nicolas;Paul Cohen

  247
  Citations

• The NH2-terminal alpha-helical domain 1-18 of dermaseptin is responsible for antimicrobial activity.

  Amram Mor;P. Nicolas

  217
  Citations

• The dermaseptin superfamily: a gene-based combinatorial library of antimicrobial peptides.

  Pierre Nicolas;Chahrazade El Amri

  185
  Citations

• SPECTRUM OF ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY AND ASSEMBLY OF DERMASEPTIN-B AND ITS PRECURSOR FORM IN PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANES

  Jacob Strahilevitz;Amram Mor;Pierre Nicolas;Yechiel Shai

  180
  Citations

• Covalent Structure, Synthesis, and Structure-Function Studies of Mesentericin Y 10537, a Defensive Peptide from Gram-positive Bacteria Leuconostoc mesenteroides

  Yannick Fleury;Manal Abdel Dayem;Manal Abdel Dayem;Jean Jacques Montagne;Eddy Chaboisseau

  169
  Citations

• Molecular strategies in biological evolution of antimicrobial peptides

  Pierre Nicolas;Damien Vanhoye;Mohamed Amiche

  159
  Citations

• Immunocytochemical localization of the endogenous benzodiazepine ligand octadecaneuropeptide (ODN) in the rat brain.

  M.C. Tonon;L. Désy;P. Nicolas;H. Vaudry

  151
  Citations

• Structure, synthesis, and molecular cloning of dermaseptins B, a family of skin peptide antibiotics.

  Stéphane Charpentier;Mohamed Amiche;Jan Mester;Véronique Vouille

  148
  Citations

• THE DERMASEPTIN PRECURSORS : A PROTEIN FAMILY WITH A COMMON PREPROREGION AND A VARIABLE C-TERMINAL ANTIMICROBIAL DOMAIN

  Mohamed Amiche;Aurelia Anne Seon;Thierry Nicolas Pierre;Pierre Nicolas

  138
  Citations

• Lipid reorganization induced by membrane-active peptides probed using differential scanning calorimetry.

  Pierre Joanne;Cécile Galanth;Nicole Goasdoué;Pierre Nicolas

  135
  Citations

• Isolation of dermenkephalin from amphibian skin, a high-affinity (δ-selective opioid heptapeptide containing a D-amino acid residue

  Amram Mor;Antoine Delfour;Sandrine Sagan;Mohamed Amiche

  131
  Citations

• Dermaseptin S9, an α-Helical Antimicrobial Peptide with a Hydrophobic Core and Cationic Termini†

  Olivier Lequin;Ali Ladram;Ludovic Chabbert;Francine Bruston

  123
  Citations

• A consistent nomenclature of antimicrobial peptides isolated from frogs of the subfamily Phyllomedusinae.

  Mohamed Amiche;Ali Ladram;Pierre Nicolas

  120
  Citations

• Antimicrobial peptides from frog skin: biodiversity and therapeutic promises.

  Ali Ladram;Pierre Nicolas

  110
  Citations