Antimicrobial peptides: a new class of antimalarial drugs?
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Antimicrobial peptides: a new class of antimalarial drugs?
A range of antimicrobial peptides (AMP) exhibit activity on malaria parasites, Plasmodium spp., in their blood or mosquito stages, or both. These peptides include a diverse array of both natural and synthetic molecules varying greatly in size, charge, hydrophobicity, and secondary structure features. Along with an overview of relevant literature reports regarding AMP that display antiplasmodial...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Pharmacology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1663-9812
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2014.00275