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Antifungal Drug Discovery: Something Old and Something New

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Plant defensins: Common fold, multiple functions

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Antimicrobial peptides: key components of the innate immune system

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Antifungal action of human cathelicidin fragment (LL13–37) on Candida albicans

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The Antifungal Plant Defensin HsAFP1 from Heuchera Sanguinea Induces Apoptosis in Candida Albicans

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Antifungal Activity of PvD1 Defensin Involves Plasma Membrane Permeabilization, Inhibition of Medium Acidification, and Induction of ROS in Fungi Cells

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Interaction between the Candida albicans High-Osmolarity Glycerol (HOG) Pathway and the Response to Human β-Defensins 2 and 3

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Stress signalling to fungal stress-activated protein kinase pathways

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Candida spp. bloodstream infection: influence of antifungal treatment on outcome

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Permeabilization of Fungal Hyphae by the Plant Defensin NaD1 Occurs through a Cell Wall-dependent Process

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An Extensive Circuitry for Cell Wall Regulation in Candida albicans

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Backbone dynamics of the antifungal Psd1 pea defensin and its correlation with membrane interaction by NMR spectroscopy

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Multifunctional host defense peptides: intracellular-targeting antimicrobial peptides

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The antifungal plant defensin RsAFP2 from radish induces apoptosis in a metacaspase independent way inCandida albicans

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In Vitro Activity of the Antifungal Plant Defensin RsAFP2 against Candida Isolates and Its In Vivo Efficacy in Prophylactic Murine Models of Candidiasis

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The mode of antifungal action of plant, insect and human defensins

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The Plant Defensin, NaD1, Enters the Cytoplasm ofFusarium OxysporumHyphae

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