Antimicrobial peptides
AssigneeBarnaux Healthcare B.V.
InventorsArie Van Nieuw Amerongen, Engelmundus Cornelis Ignatius Veerman, Willem Van't Hof, Eva Josephine Helmerhorst
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Abstract
The present invention relates to peptides with antimicrobial activity, consisting of an amino acid chain which contains a domain of 10 to 25 amino acids, wherein the majority of the amino acids of the one half of the domain is positively charged amino acids and the majority of the amino acids of the other half of the domain is uncharged amino acids.
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Peptides with antimicrobial activity consisting of an amino acid chain which contains a domain of 10 to 25 amino acids, wherein the majority of the amino acids of one half of the domain are positively charged amino acids and the majority of the amino acids of the other half of the domain are uncharged amino acids, characterized in that the peptides comprise an amino acid sequence:
- LLLFLLKKRKKRKY (peptide 11) (SEQ ID NO:9).
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