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. 2014 Aug 20;5:443. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00443

Table 1.

Antimicrobial peptides, their immobilization substrates and molecular targets with the respective detection limits obtained through different techniques.

AMPs Substrate immobilization Target recognition Detection limit Technique Reference
Magainin I Gold surface – lipoic acid N-hydroxysuccinimide – ferrocene Escherichia coli O157:H7 103 CFU ⋅ mL-1 Electrochemical impedance Li et al. (2014)
Magainin I Glass microbeads – N-[γ-maleimidobutyryloxy] succinimide ester (GMBS) – cysteine Non-pathogenic Escherichia coli 103 cells ⋅ mL-1 Fluorescence microscopy Yoo et al. (2014)
Magainin I Gold surface – cysteine Salmonella typhimurium 103 CFU ⋅ mL-1 Electrical impedance Mannoor et al. (2010)
Leucocin A Gold surface – cysteamine Listeria monocytogenes 103 CFU ⋅ mL-1 Electrical impedance Etayash et al. (2014)
Bactenecin Glass slide – 3-mercaptopropyl triethoxysilane (MPTES) – GMBS Brucella melitensis
Vaccinia virus
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
Coxiella burnetti
5 × 104 cells ⋅ mL-1
<5 × 105 PFU ⋅ mL-1
<5 × 105 PFU ⋅ mL-1
5 × 105 cells ⋅ mL-1
Fluorescence spectroscopy Kulagina et al. (2007)
G10KHc Gold surface – cysteine Pseudomonas aeruginosa 105 CFU ⋅ mL-1 Electrical impedance Lillehoj et al. (2014)
C16G2cys Gold surface – cysteine Streptococcus mutans 105 CFU ⋅ mL-1 Electrical impedance Lillehoj et al. (2014)
Cecoprin A Glass slide – poly(dimethyl) siloxane (PDMS) Botulinum toxin A 1 ng ⋅ mL-1 Fluorescence spectroscopy Kulagina et al. (2006)
Melittin Glass slide – PDMS Botulinum toxin B 10 ng ⋅ mL-1 Fluorescence spectroscopy Kulagina et al. (2006)

*CFU, colony forming units; PFU, plaque forming units.