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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2015;1268:43–66. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2285-7_3

Table 7.

Biological activities of host defense antimicrobial peptides

Year created Activitya Count
2003 Antibacterial (G+/G−) 1909
2003 Antifungal 850
2003 Antiviral 138
2003 Anticancer 158
2003 Hemolytic 284
2008 Anti-HIV 92
2009 Anti-G+ 360
2009 Anti-G− 172
2009 Antiparasitic 59
2009 Insecticidal 22
2009 Spermicidal 9
2011 Chemotactic 47
2012 Anti-protist 4
2013 Antioxidant 10
2013 Anti-inflammatory 2
2013 Wound healing 7
2013 Enzyme inhibitor 5
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