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Pedro I. Silva

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Publications

9

Citations

747

H-Index

9

Active since

2000

Affiliations

Instituto Butantan(Current)

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Universidade de São Paulo

Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia

Universidade Federal do ABC

Pedro I. Silva is an author at Instituto Butantan specializing in life sciences, antimicrobial peptide activity, and antimicrobial peptides.

Publications per year

2000–2019

9

Publications

9

Isolation and Characterization of Gomesin, an 18-Residue Cysteine-rich Defense Peptide from the Spider Acanthoscurria gomesiana Hemocytes with Sequence Similarities to Horseshoe Crab Antimicrobial Peptides of the Tachyplesin Family

Pedro I. Silva, Sirlei Daffre, Philippe Bulet · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2000 · 267 citations · Full text

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Structure-function-guided exploration of the antimicrobial peptide polybia-CP identifies activity determinants and generates synthetic therapeutic candidates

Marcelo D. T. Torres, Cibele Nicolaski Pedron, Yasutomi Higashikuni et al. · Communications Biology · 2018 · 168 citations · Full text

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Unraveling the antifungal activity of a South American rattlesnake toxin crotamine

Erica S. Yamane, Fernando César Bizerra, Eduardo B. Oliveira et al. · Biochimie · 2012 · 93 citations · Full text

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The role of hemocytes in the immunity of the spider Acanthoscurria gomesiana

Aline H. Fukuzawa, Bruno C. Vellutini, Daniel M. Lorenzini et al. · Developmental & Comparative Immunology · 2007 · 58 citations

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Peptidomics of Acanthoscurria gomesiana spider venom reveals new toxins with potential antimicrobial activity

Thiago F. Abreu, Bianca N. Sumitomo, Milton Yutaka Nishiyama et al. · Journal of Proteomics · 2016 · 52 citations

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