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" Small wonders : "
Kanniah Rajasekaran ... [et al.], editor[s]
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BL
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660377
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Small wonders : : peptides for disease control /\ Kanniah Rajasekaran ... [et al.], editor[s]
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, DC :: American Chemical Society ;[New York, NY] :: Distributed by Oxford University Press,, c2012
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ACS symposium series ;; 1095
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xi, 472 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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9780841227484 (alk. paper)
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: 0841227489 (alk. paper)
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"Sponsored by the ACS Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Inc."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Immunomodulatory cationic peptide therapeutics : a new paradigm in infection and immunity -- Structure/function link between cytokine domains and natural and designed lytic peptides : medical promise -- The potential of frog skin antimicrobial peptides for development into therapeutically valuable anti-infective agents -- Obstacles and solutions to the use of cationic antimicrobial peptides in the treatment of cancer -- Lytic peptides as anti-cancer therapeutics : lessons learned from a novel design approach -- Strategies for designing peptide immunogens to elicit : helical conformation-specific antibodies reactive with native proteins -- Defensins in viral infection -- "GENOPEP," a topical cream in the treatment of burn wounds -- Developing influenza antigen microarrays for seroprofiling -- pH-directed self-assembling helical peptide conformation -- Controlling symbiotic microbes with antimicrobial peptides -- Antimicrobial peptides for plant disease control : from discovery to application -- Antimicrobial peptides as a promising alternative for plant disease protection -- Strategies for controlling plant diseases and mycotoxin contamination using antimicrobial synthetic peptides -- Antifungal plant defensins : structure-activity relationships, modes of action, and biotech applications -- Antifungal peptides : exploiting non-lytic mechanisms and cell penetration properties -- Thionin antifungal peptide synthesis in transgenic barley -- Expression of designed anti-microbial peptides in theobroma cacao L. trees reduces leaf necrosis caused by phytophthora spp -- Antimicrobial peptides for fire blight control -- Thionins : nature's weapons of mass protection -- Transgenic expression of antimicrobial peptides in plants : strategies for enhanced disease resistance, improved productivity, and production of therapeutics
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Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides
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Anti-Infective Agents
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Plant Diseases
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Therapeutics
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Peptides-- Therapeutic use
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Peptide drugs
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Anti-infective agents
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Plant diseases
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Therapeutics
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615.7/92
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RM666.P415S63 2012
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QU 68
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Rajasekaran, K.,1952-
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American Chemical Society., Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
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