Hydrophobic residues are critical for the helix-forming, hemolytic and bactericidal activities of amphipathic antimicrobial peptide TP4

• Ting-Wei Chang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Wei Chang, Shu-Yi Wei, Shih-Han Wang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Shu-Yi Wei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Wei Chang, Shu-Yi Wei, Shih-Han Wang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Shih-Han Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Wei Chang, Shu-Yi Wei, Shih-Han Wang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hung-Mu Wei,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yu-June Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chiu-Feng Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chinpan Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bmchinp@ibms.sinica.edu.tw (CC); ydliao@ibms.sinica.edu.tw (YDL)

  Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• You-Di Liao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bmchinp@ibms.sinica.edu.tw (CC); ydliao@ibms.sinica.edu.tw (YDL)

  Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5527-4736

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