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An anti-infective synthetic peptide with dual antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities

Antibiotic-resistant infections are predicted to kill 10 million people per year by 2050, costing the global economy $100 trillion. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop alternative technologies. We have engineered a synthetic peptide called clavanin-MO, derived from a marine tunicate antimi...

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Autores principales: Silva, O. N., de la Fuente-Núñez, C., Haney, E. F., Fensterseifer, I. C. M., Ribeiro, S. M., Porto, W. F., Brown, P., Faria-Junior, C., Rezende, T. M. B., Moreno, S. E., Lu, T. K., Hancock, R. E. W., Franco, O. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5090204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27804992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep35465