Development of Antimicrobial Peptides from Amphibians

Overview

Journal Antibiotics (Basel)

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 2020 Nov 7

PMID 33158031

Citations 10

Authors

Maria Luisa Mangoni

Bruno Casciaro

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Abstract

Since the discovery of magainins from the skin secretions of the African toad by Michael Zasloff in 1987, an increasing number of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) has been identified in different anuran species and studied in detail [...].

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