Animal antimicrobial peptides: Ancient players in innate immunity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 182, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 6633-6634

  Strominger, Jack L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; ARGININE; BETA DEFENSIN; CATHELICIDIN; CECROPIN; CHOLESTEROL; DROSOMYCIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LEUCINE; LYSINE; MELITTIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PR 39; PROLINE; TYROSINE; VACCINE; WNT PROTEIN; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITIC CELL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENTEROBACTER; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FLY; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYMPH; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; ILEUM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL; NOTE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE; SWEDEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TELEOST; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VACCINATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MUTATION;

EID: 67449149809     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0990038     Document Type: Note

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