Cathelicidins - a family of multifunctional antimicrobial peptides
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One component of host defence at mucosal surfaces are epithelial-derived antimicrobial peptides. Cathelicidins are one family of antimicrobial peptides characterized by conserved pro-peptide sequences that have been identified in several mammalian species. LL-37/hCAP-18 is the only cathelicidin found in humans and is expressed in inflammatory and epithelial cells. Besides their direct antimicrobial function, cathelicidins have multiple roles as mediators of inflammation influencing diverse processes such as cell proliferation and migration, immune modulation, wound healing, angiogenesis and the release of cytokines and histamine. Finally, cathelicidin antimicrobial peptides qualify as prototypes of innovative drugs that may be used to treat infection and/or modulate the immune response. This review provides an overview of antimicrobial peptides of the cathelicidin family, the structures of their genes and peptides and their biological functions.
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Among eutherians, primates and rodents have a single cathelicidin gene.
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- Bals, R., & Wilson, J. M.
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- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
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- Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (CMLS)
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- 2003-04-01
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- 711-720
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- 1420-682X (ISSN-L)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Microbiology › Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Antimicrobial agents and applications
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › S100 Proteins and Annexins
- Keywords
- cathelicidin, antimicrobial peptides, LL-37, mucosal immunity, host defense, inflammation, wound healing, angiogenesis, immunomodulation, cytokine production, histamine release, gene structure, antimicrobial drug development
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Blood Proteins, Multigene Family, Humans, Immunity, Innate, Molecular Sequence Data, Protein Precursors, Proteins, Swine, Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Mice, Cathelicidins
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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