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Letter to the Editor

Virucidal activity of cell-penetrating peptides of viral origin

Nawal Abd El-Baky Protective and Therapeutic Protein Laboratory, Protein Research Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications , New Borg El-Arab, Alexandria21394, Egypt
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Vladimir N. Uversky Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University , Jeddah, PO Box 80203, Jeddah21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida , Tampa, FL33612, USA; Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Institutskaya str., 7, Pushchino, Moscow region142290, Russia
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Elrashdy M. Redwan Protective and Therapeutic Protein Laboratory, Protein Research Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications , New Borg El-Arab, Alexandria21394, Egypt; Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University , Jeddah, PO Box 80203, Jeddah21589, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1739-1746 | Received 30 Mar 2017, Accepted 16 May 2017, Published online: 31 May 2017

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