Strain-Specific Polymorphisms in Paneth Cell α-Defensins of C57BL/6 Mice and Evidence of Vestigial Myeloid α-Defensin Pseudogenes

TLR9-Dependent Induction of Intestinal  -Defensins by Toxoplasma gondii

(2010) D. M. Foureau et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

The repertoire of equine intestinal α-defensins

(2009) Oliver Bruhn et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Manual annotation and analysis of the defensin gene cluster in the C57BL/6J mouse reference genome

(2009) Clara Amid et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Electropositive Charge in  -Defensin Bactericidal Activity: Functional Effects of Lys-for-Arg Substitutions Vary with the Peptide Primary Structure

(2009) R. A. Llenado et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

α-Defensins in Enteric Innate Immunity

(2009) Jennifer R. Mastroianni et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Enteric defensins are essential regulators of intestinal microbial ecology

(2009) Nita H Salzman et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Regional variations in Paneth cell antimicrobial peptide expression along the mouse intestinal tract

(2008) Jenny Karlsson et al.   BMC IMMUNOLOGY

MEGA: A biologist-centric software for evolutionary analysis of DNA and protein sequences

(2008) S. Kumar et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Defensins and the convergent evolution of platypus and reptile venom genes

(2008) C. M. Whittington et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Secreted enteric antimicrobial activity localises to the mucus surface layer

(2008) U Meyer-Hoffert et al.   GUT

Macaque sperm coating protein DEFB126 facilitates sperm penetration of cervical mucus

(2008) T. L. Tollner et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

The Conserved Salt Bridge in Human α-Defensin 5 Is Required for Its Precursor Processing and Proteolytic Stability

(2008) Mohsen Rajabi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Analysis and Separation of Residues Important for the Chemoattractant and Antimicrobial Activities of β-Defensin 3

(2008) Karen Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Developmental switch of intestinal antimicrobial peptide expression

(2008) Sandrine Ménard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Murine  -defensin 2 promotes TLR-4/MyD88-mediated and NF- B-dependent atypical death of APCs via activation of TNFR2

(2008) A. Biragyn et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

Identification of novel host defense peptides and the absence of α-defensins in the bovine genome

(2008) Christopher D. Fjell et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Expression patterns of platypus defensin and related venom genes across a range of tissue types reveal the possibility of broader functions for OvDLPs than previously suspected

(2008) Camilla M. Whittington et al.   TOXICON

Beta-Defensin 126 on the Surface of Macaque Sperm Mediates Attachment of Sperm to Oviductal Epithelia1

(2007) Theodore L. Tollner et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION