All-D-magainin: chirality, antimicrobial activity and proteolytic resistance.

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Published in FEBS Lett on November 12, 1990

Authors

R Bessalle1, A Kapitkovsky, A Gorea, I Shalit, M Fridkin

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1: Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

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