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SUBMITTER: Raileanu M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7555805 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Raileanu Mina M Popescu Aurel A Bacalum Mihaela M
International journal of molecular sciences 20200922 18
Antimicrobial peptides are molecules synthetized by a large variety of organisms as an innate defense against pathogens. These natural compounds have been identified as promising alternatives to widely used molecules to treat infections and cancer cells. Antimicrobial peptides could be viewed as future chemotherapeutic alternatives, having the advantage of low propensity to drug resistance. In this study, we evaluated the efficiency of the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin A (GA) and the anticanc ...[more]