A database view of naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides: Nomenclature, classification and amino acid sequence analysis

Antimicrobial Peptides: Discovery, Design and Novel Therapeutic Strategies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-21

  Wang, Guangshun ^a   Li, Xia ^a   Zasloff, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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