... very welldefined, stabilized primarily by the hydrogen bonds of atightly packed b-sheet.In this study, we examined the solution structure,stability, and antimicrobial activity of the thermolysin-linearized ... maintained in the thermolysin-linearizedform. In the cyclic MccJ25, the stability is likely to bereinforced by the constraining strength of the circularbackbone.Interestingly, the stable three-dimensional ... precur-sor. In a recent study, an elegant ligation method was usedto complete the chemical synthesis of the cyclic MccJ25 [45].However, the folding of the synthetic cyclic peptide obtainedwas...