Defensins: The Case for Their Use against Mycobacterial Infections

Expressions of Antimicrobial Peptides LL-37, Human Beta Defensin-2 and -3 in the Lesions of Cutaneous Tuberculosis and Tuberculids

(2016) Lin Cai et al.   CHINESE MEDICAL JOURNAL

Antimicrobial potentials and structural disorder of human and animal defensins

(2016) Ehab H. Mattar et al.   CYTOKINE & GROWTH FACTOR REVIEWS

Global Tuberculosis Control: Toward the 2015 Targets and Beyond

(2015) Emilio Dirlikov et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Overexpression of Porcine Beta-Defensin 2 Enhances Resistance to Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae Infection in Pigs

(2015) Xi Yang et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Antimicrobial activity of recombinant mature bovine neutrophil β-defensin 4 on mycobacterial infection

(2015) J-J. Kang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE

Rhesus macaque θ-defensin RTD-1 inhibits proinflammatory cytokine secretion and gene expression by inhibiting the activation of NF-κB and MAPK pathways

(2015) Prasad Tongaonkar et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

Antimicrobial activity of human α-defensin 5 and its linear analogs: N-terminal fatty acylation results in enhanced antimicrobial activity of the linear analogs

(2015) Basil Mathew et al.   PEPTIDES

Avian β-defensins expression for the innate immune system in hen reproductive organs

(2015) Yukinori Yoshimura   POULTRY SCIENCE

The Efficacy of the BCG Vaccine against Newly Emerging Clinical Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2015) Marcela Henao-Tamayo et al.   PLoS One

The Chemistry and Biology of Theta Defensins

(2014) Anne C. Conibear et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Antimycobacterial activity of Pichia pastoris-derived mature bovine neutrophil β-defensins 5

(2014) J. Kang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Induces LL-37 and HBD-2 Production in Keratinocytes from Diabetic Foot Ulcers Promoting Wound Healing: An In Vitro Model

(2014) Irma Gonzalez-Curiel et al.   PLoS One

Defensins: Natural component of human innate immunity

(2013) Justyna Jarczak et al.   HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY

Immunotherapy for pulmonary TB: antimicrobial peptides and their inducers

(2013) Cesar Enrique Rivas-Santiago et al.   Immunotherapy

 -Defensin 2 and 3 Promote the Uptake of Self or CpG DNA, Enhance IFN-  Production by Human Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells, and Promote Inflammation

(2013) P. Tewary et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Bovine β-defensin gene family: opportunities to improve animal health?

(2013) K. G. Meade et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS

Bacterial expression and antibiotic activities of recombinant variants of human β-defensins on pathogenic bacteria and M. tuberculosis

(2013) Ligia Corrales-Garcia et al.   PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION

Expression of Beta Defensin 2 in Experimental Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Tentative Approach for Vaccine Development

(2012) Bruno Rivas-Santiago et al.   ARCHIVES OF MEDICAL RESEARCH

θ-Defensins: Cyclic Peptides with Endless Potential: FIGURE 1.

(2012) Robert I. Lehrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Prime-boost BCG vaccination with DNA vaccines based in β-defensin-2 and mycobacterial antigens ESAT6 or Ag85B improve protection in a tuberculosis experimental model

(2012) Alberto R. Cervantes-Villagrana et al.   VACCINE

Induction of β-defensins by l-isoleucine as novel immunotherapy in experimental murine tuberculosis

(2011) C. E. Rivas-Santiago et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY

Innate response of human endothelial cells infected with mycobacteria

(2011) Blanca Estela García-Pérez et al.   IMMUNOBIOLOGY

Mycobacterium boviswith different genotypes and from different hosts induce dissimilar immunopathological lesions in a mouse model of tuberculosis

(2009) D. Aguilar León et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY

Convergence of IL-1β and VDR Activation Pathways in Human TLR2/1-Induced Antimicrobial Responses

(2009) Philip T. Liu et al.   PLoS One

TLR2-dependent eosinophil interactions with mycobacteria: role of  -defensins

(2008) V. Driss et al.   BLOOD

Role of antimicrobial peptides in host defense against mycobacterial infections

(2008) Patricia Méndez-Samperio   PEPTIDES