Innate antimicrobial peptide protects the skin from invasive bacterial infection

Nature

Volumn 414, Issue 6862, 2001, Pages 454-457

  Nizet, Victor ^a   Ohtake, Takaaki ^b,c   Lauth, Xavier ^b,c   Trowbridge, Janet ^b,c   Rudisill, Jennifer ^b,c   Dorschner, Robert A ^b,c   Pestonjamasp, Vasumati ^b,c   Piraino, Joseph ^d   Huttner, Kenneth ^d   Gallo, Richard L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; GENES; PROTEINS;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA DEFENSIN; CATHELICIDIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; CRAMP PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DISEASE RESISTANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN PROTECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0035936156     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35106587     Document Type: Article

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