Current status of defensins and their role in innate and adaptive immunity

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-18

  Raj, Periathamby Antony ^a   Dentino, Andrew R ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

and defensin; Sheet peptide; Amphiphilic molecule; Antimicrobial agent; Immuno modulator; Membrane permeabilizing agent; Peptide disulfide

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG UTILIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEFENSINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037005996     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00496-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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