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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Peptides. 2012 May 22;36(2):151–156. doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2012.05.006

Table 1.

Antimicrobial chemical properties of peptides

# AA Charge IP
LL37* 37 6.0 11.1
hBD2* 41 5.8 9.2
Histatin 5* 24 5.6 10.7
Ghrelin 28 5.1 11.5
Orexin B** 28 3.1 12.1
VIP** 28 3.1 10.2
Neuropeptide Y** 36 0.1 7.6
*

, antimicrobial peptide;

**

, neuropeptide ;

#

AA, number of amino acids;

IP, Isoelectric point