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Luz N Irazazabal1, William F Porto2, Isabel C M Fensterseifer1

  • 1Programa de Pós-graduação em Patologia Molecular, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF 70910-900, Brazil; Centro de Análises Proteômicas e Bioquímicas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Genômicas e Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil.

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. Biomembranes
|November 23, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
Antimicrobial peptidesCircular dichroism (CD)Electron microscopy (EM)Membrane permeabilization/depolarizationNuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)Rational design

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