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Antimicrobial peptides: Cooperative approaches to protection

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.2174/0929866053406057
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  1. National Research Council Canada. Aquatic and Crop Resource Development
  2. National Research Council Canada. NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences
FormatText, Article
Subjectantibiotic; biodiversity; cationic antimicrobial peptide (CAP); fish; genomics; microbicidal; synergy
Abstract
Reports of cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAPs) have become standard fare in research literature. But with several hundred peptides described to date, the investigator who tries to navigate the proposed models of their activity is only treated to a generous serving of incongruencies. Rather than acting in isolation as antimicrobial molecules, CAPs also may synergize with other molecules of innate immunity and modulate both innate and adaptive immune systems, thus providing a link between the various mechanisms that result in host protection. - See more at: http://www.eurekaselect.com/79082/article#sthash.8JDjRl98.dpuf
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  • Copyright 2005 Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
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  • Protein & Peptide Letters 12, no. 1 (January 2005): 19–25.
LanguageEnglish
Peer reviewedYes
NRC numberNRCC 42409
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NPARC number3538392
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