Title: Antibacterial and Antifungal Properties of a Novel Antimicrobial Peptide GK-19 and Application on Skin and Soft Tissue Infections byMRSA or Candida Albicans
Short Running Title: A Novel Antibacterial and Antifungal Peptide GK-19 and Its Application
Chenghua Song 1*, Ruichao Wen 1, Jiaxuan Zhou 1,Xiaoyan Zeng 2, Zi Kou 1, Jia Zhang 4, Tao Wang 1, Pengkang Chang 1,Yi Lv 1, 3, Rongqian Wu 1*
1. National Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Precision Surgery & Regenerative Medicine, Shaanxi Provincial Center for Regenerative Medicine and Surgical Engineering, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China;
2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China;
3. Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China.
4. Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China;
*To whom correspondence should be addressed: Chenghua Song, E-mail: sch871224@xjtu.edu.cn, or Rongqian Wu, E-mail: rwu001@mail.xjtu.edu.cn.
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Acknowledgements
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81701814), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Xi’an Jiaotong University (Grant No. xjj2018270) and the Innovation Capacity Support Plan of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2020TD-040).