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US 6,664,231 B1Granted
Anti-fungal peptides
AssigneeXoma Corporation
InventorsRoger G. Little, II, Edward Lim, Mitchell B. Fadem
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Abstract
The present invention relates generally to anti-fungal peptides derived from or based on Domain III (amino acids 142-169) of bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) and in vivo or in vitro uses of such peptides.
Claims43
A peptide having from six to fourteen amino acids and having the amino acid sequence of bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein from about position 148 to about position 161 of SEQ ID NO:
- 251, and variants of the sequence having antifungal activity.
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