Extending the Hydrophobic Mismatch Concept to Amphiphilic
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2 Membranolytic Peptides 3 Ariadna Grau-Campistany,‡,† Erik Strandberg,‡ Parvesh Wadhwani,‡ Francesc Rabanal,† 4 and Anne S. Ulrich*,‡,§ 5 ‡Institute of Biological Interfaces (IBG-2), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), POB 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 6 †Departament de Química Orgaǹica, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 7 Institute of Organic Chemistry, KIT, Fritz-Haber-Weg 6, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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