Structural and functional characterization of two genetically related meucin peptides highlights evolutionary divergence and convergence in antimicrobial peptides

A fossil antibacterial peptide gives clues to structural diversity of cathelicidin-derived host defense peptides

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Differential potency of drosomycin toNeurospora crassaand its mutant: implications for evolutionary relationship between defensins from insects and plants

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Activation of cathepsin L by the cathelin-like domain of protegrin-3

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Did cathelicidins, a family of multifunctional host-defense peptides, arise from a cysteine protease inhibitor?

(2008) Shunyi Zhu   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Discovery of six families of fungal defensin-like peptides provides insights into origin and evolution of the CSαβ defensins

(2007) Shunyi Zhu   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Positively selected sites of scorpion depressant toxins: Possible roles in toxin functional divergence

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