Interactions between human defensins and lipid bilayers: Evidence for formation of multimeric pores

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• Publication year

  1994

• Venue

  Protein Science

• Publication date

  1994-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1002/PRO.5560030902PMID 7833799PMCID PMC2142938
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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