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Antimicrobial activity of a C-terminal peptide from human extracellular superoxide dismutase

BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) are important effectors of the innate immune system. Although there is increasing evidence that AMPs influence bacteria in a multitude of ways, bacterial wall rupture plays the pivotal role in the bactericidal action of AMPs. Structurally, AMPs share many sim...

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Autores principales: Pasupuleti, Mukesh, Davoudi, Mina, Malmsten, Martin, Schmidtchen, Artur
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19604396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-2-136