Postsecretory Processing Generates Multiple Cathelicidins for Enhanced Topical Antimicrobial Defense

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 172, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3070-3077

  Murakami, Masamoto ^a   Lopez Garcia, Belen ^a   Braff, Marissa ^a   Dorschner, Robert A ^a   Gallo, Richard L ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MC 911B ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHELICIDIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; DERMCIDIN; GENE PRODUCT; INTERLEUKIN 8; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN CAMP; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFLAMMATION; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; SKIN SURFACE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 1342282224     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.5.3070     Document Type: Article

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