Tissue expression and antibacterial activity of host defense peptides in chicken

Chicken NK-lysin is an alpha-helical cationic peptide that exerts its antibacterial activity through damage of bacterial cell membranes

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Immunity to bacterial infection in the chicken

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Avian host defense peptides

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ß-Defensins: Multifunctional Modulators of Infection, Inflammation and More?

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Modulating immunity as a therapy for bacterial infections

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Effects of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the chicken NK-lysin gene on antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity of cancer cells

(2012) Mi Ok Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Novel Design of Short Antimicrobial Peptides Derived from the Bactericidal Domain of Avian β-defensin-4

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Antimicrobial peptides: key components of the innate immune system

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Three novel Anas platyrhynchos avian β-defensins, upregulated by duck hepatitis virus, with antibacterial and antiviral activities

(2011) Deying Ma et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Structural determinants of host defense peptides for antimicrobial activity and target cell selectivity

(2010) Daisuke Takahashi et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Gallin; an antimicrobial peptide member of a new avian defensin family, the ovodefensins, has been subject to recent gene duplication

(2010) Daoqing Gong et al.   BMC IMMUNOLOGY

Insect peptide metchnikowin confers on barley a selective capacity for resistance to fungal ascomycetes pathogens

(2009) Mohammad Rahnamaeian et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Identification of chicken cathelicidin-2 core elements involved in antibacterial and immunomodulatory activities

(2009) Albert van Dijk et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Acquired resistance to the rice blast in transgenic rice accumulating the antimicrobial peptide thanatin

(2009) Tomohiro Imamura et al.   TRANSGENIC RESEARCH

The Central Kink Region of Fowlicidin-2, an α-Helical Host Defense Peptide, Is Critically Involved in Bacterial Killing and Endotoxin Neutralization

(2008) Yanjing Xiao et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity