Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting

2060-Pos Board B204 ADAPTATION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI SPHEROPLASTS TO THE CHARACTER- IZATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES. Lei Wei , Donald E. Elmore 2061-Pos Board B205 THE ROLE OF ARGININE AND LYSINE IN HISTONE DERIVED ANTIMICRO- BIAL PEPTIDES. Dania Figueroa , Carla Perez, Donald E. Elmore 2062-Pos Board B206 USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS TO CHARACTERIZE THE ROLE PLAYED BY BASIC RESIDUES IN INTERACTIONS OF HDAPS AND BAC- TERIAL LIPID MEMBRANES. Sung Hyun Lee , Donald E. Elmore 2063-Pos Board B207 MIMICKING AND UNDERSTANDING THE AGGLUTINATION EFFECT OF THE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE THANATIN USING MODEL PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLES. Émile Robert, Thierry Lefèvre, Matthieu Fillion, Benjamin Martial, Justine Dionne, Michèle Auger 2064-Pos Board B208 2H NMR STUDIES OF LIVING BACTERIA INTERACTING WITH ANTIMICRO- BIAL PEPTIDES. Nury P. Santisteban , Michael R. Morrow, Valerie Booth 2065-Pos Board B209 SELECTIVE MEMBRANE DISRUPTION MECHANISM OF AN ANTIBACTERIAL γ-AAPEPTIDE DEFINED BY EPR SPECTROSCOPY. Pavanjeet Kaur, Yaqiong Li, Jianfeng Cai, Likai Song 2066-Pos Board B210 SELECTIVITY OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES: ASSOCIATION TO BACTERIAL AND EUKARYOTIC CELLS AND CELL-DENSITY DEPENDENCE. Filippo Savini , Vincenzo Luca, Daniela Roversi, Alessio Boccedi, Renato Massoud, Yoon-kyung Park, Maria Luisa Mangoni, Lorenzo Stella 2067-Pos Board B211 PSD1 ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST CANDIDA ALBICANS PLANK- TONIC CELLS AND BIOFILMS. Sónia Gonçalves , Patrícia M. Silva, Mário R. Felício, Luciano N. de Medeiros, Eleonora Kurtenbach, Nuno C. Santos 2068-Pos Board B212 SELF-ASSEMBLING AND ION TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF MEMBRANE ACTIVE PEPTIDES DRIVEN BY FORMATION OF A FLUOROUS INTER- FACE. Normand Voyer , Raphaël Godbout, Sébastien Légaré, Maud SV Auger, François Otis, Claudia Carpentier, Patrick Lagüe, Michèle Auger 2069-Pos Board B213 DAPTOMYCIN BINDS BUT DOES NOT TRANSLOCATE ACROSS PC:PG MEM- BRANES. Mark Kreutzberger , Antje Pokorny, Paulo F. Almeida 2070-Pos Board B214 ARE LEUCINE AND ISOLEUCINE EQUIVALENT IN BINDING OF AMPHIPA- THIC PEPTIDES TO MEMBRANES. Mia A. Rosenfeld, Shatima Stokes, Jonathan H. Diaz, Paulo F. Almeida, Antje Pokorny 2071-Pos Board B215 PHLIP®: USES IN MEASURING CELL SURFACE PH, IMAGING TUMORS, AND DELIVERING THERAPEUTICS. Donald Engelman , Yana K. Reshetnyak, Oleg A. Andreev 2072-Pos Board B216 THE ROLE OF MULTIVALENCY IN INHIBITION OF BACILLUS ANTHRACIS AND CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM BINARY TOXINS BY CATIONIC PAMAM DENDRIMERS. Goli Yamini , Veronica Wright, Holger Barth, Ekaterina M. Nestorovich 2073-Pos Board B217 ORDERING EFFECT INDUCED BY SARS-COV FUSION PEPTIDES ON MEM- BRANES CONTAINING NEGATIVELY CHARGED LIPIDS MIGHT BE IMPOR- TANT TO MEMBRANE FUSION. Luis GM Basso , Morteza Jafarabadi, Alex I. Smirnov, Antonio J. Costa-Filho

2046-Pos Board B190 INFLUENCE OF CHARGE ON THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF LIPID MEM- BRANES. Elizabeth G. Kelley , Michihiro Nagao, Robert D. Bradbury, Paul D. Butler 2047-Pos Board B191 MOLECULAR SIMULATION OF LIPIDS AND WATER: ATOMISTIC, COARSE- GRAINED, AND MIXED RESOLUTIONS. Mario Orsi , Wei Ding, Michail Palaiokostas, Wen Wang 2048-Pos Board B192 STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF BIO-MEMBRANES AND THEIR HYDRA- TION WATER IN WATER SOLUTION OF ROOM TEMPERATURE IONIC LIQUIDS: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY. Antonio Benedetto , Pietro Ballone Membrane-active Peptides and Toxins II (Boards B193 - B217) 2049-Pos Board B193 STUDYING ANTIBIOTIC-MEMBRANE INTERACTIONS VIA X-RAY DIFFRAC- TION AND FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY. Yi-Ting Sun, Ping-Yuan Huang, Cheng-Hao Lin, Kuan-Rong Lee, Ming-Tao Lee 2050-Pos Board B194 LANCING LIPOSOMES: UNLOCKING THE MECHANISM OF SHORT AMPHI- PHILIC BETA SHEET FORMING PEPTIDES.  Jalen Hoehn 2051-Pos Board B195 TOWARDS THE DELIVERY OF CARGO ACROSS BIOLOGICAL BARRIERS. Al- exander Komin , Ran Lin, Honggang Cui, Peter C. Searson, Kalina Hristova 2052-Pos Board B196 STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF ANDROPIN, A MEMBRANE- SELECTIVE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE. Meghan K. McCaskey , Larry R. Masterson 2053-Pos Board B197 CHARACTERIZATION OF PA CHANNELS IN ANTHRAX TOXIN USING TRP PEPTIDES. Koyel J. Ghosal , Bryan A. Krantz 2054-Pos Board B198 DESIGN OF PH TRIGGERED, MACROMOLECULAR PORE FORMING PEP- TIDES FOR ENDOSOMAL ESCAPE. Sarah Y. Kim , Gregory Wiedman, Lucy Li, William C. Wimley, Kalina Hristova 2055-Pos Board B199 INTERACTIONS OF HISTIDINE-RICH ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES, GAD-1 AND GAD-2, WITH MODEL MEMBRANES AT LOW AND HIGH PH.  Gagandeep K. Sandhu , Michael R. Morrow, Valeire Booth 2056-Pos Board B200 MOLECULAR BASIS FOR THE ROLE OF CATIONIC RESIDUES IN ANTIMICRO- BIAL PEPTIDE INTERACTIONS. Amy Rice , Jeff Wereszczynski 2057-Pos Board B201 OPTIMIZING A SPONTANEOUS MEMBRANE TRANSLOCATING PEPTDE. Taylor Fuselier , William C. Wimley 2058-Pos Board B202 SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING OF PERFRINGOLYSIN O BINDING AND ASSEMBLY ON MODEL MEMBRANES. Michael J. Senior, Carina Monico , Alejandro P. Heuck, Robert J. C. Gilbert, Mark I. Wallace 2059-Pos Board B203 INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HELICITY AND ACTIV- ITY IN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES WITH STABILIZED α-HELICAL STRUC- TURES. Amy Yuan , Rida Mourtada, Donald E. Elmore, Loren D. Walensky

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