D-enantiomers of 15-residue cecropin A-melittin hybrids.

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Published in Int J Pept Protein Res on February 08, 1996

Authors

E L Merrifield1, S A Mitchell, J Ubach, H G Boman, D Andreu, R B Merrifield

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1: Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

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