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Magainins and the disruption of membrane-linked free-energy transduction.

Magainins, a family of positively charged peptides, are partly if not wholly responsible for antimicrobial activity in skin extracts of Xenopus laevis. We report here that members of the magainin family--i.e., the 21-amino acid peptide PGLa and the 23-amino acid peptide magainin 2 amide (PGSa)--diss...

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Main Authors: Westerhoff, H V, Juretić, D, Hendler, R W, Zasloff, M
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1989
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC297891/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2671997
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