Antimicrobial Peptides: Versatile Biological Properties
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Antimicrobial Peptides: Versatile Biological Properties
Antimicrobial peptides are diverse group of biologically active molecules with multidimensional properties. In recent past, a wide variety of AMPs with diverse structures have been reported from different sources such as plants, animals, mammals, and microorganisms. The presence of unusual amino acids and structural motifs in AMPs confers unique structural properties to the peptide that attribu...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Peptides
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1687-9767,1687-9775
DOI: 10.1155/2013/675391