Development of Antimicrobial Peptides from Amphibians

Antibiotics (Basel). 2020 Nov 4;9(11):772. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9110772.

Abstract

Since the discovery of magainins from the skin secretions of the African toad Xenopus laevis 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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