Defensins: Antimicrobial peptides of vertebrates

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 327, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 539-549

  Ganz, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial immunity; Cysteine; Defensins; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DEFENSIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

PEPTIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DEFENSINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3242778563     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2003.12.007     Document Type: Article

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