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In silico optimization of a guava antimicrobial peptide enables combinatorial exploration for peptide design
- Source :
- Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Nature Portfolio, 2018.
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Abstract
- Antimicrobial peptides are considered promising alternatives to antibiotics. Here the authors developed a computational algorithm that starts with peptides naturally occurring in plants and optimizes this starting material to yield new variants which are highly distinct from the parent peptide.
- Subjects :
- Science
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20411723
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.9fc4525fbb254412958fded74332d577
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03746-3