Natural Antimicrobial Peptides: Pleiotropic Molecules in Host Defense
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Natural Antimicrobial Peptides: Pleiotropic Molecules in Host Defense
Natural antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are small cationic molecules that display antimicrobial activity against a wide range of bacteria, fungi and viruses. AMPs are multifunctional molecules that have an essential activity in infection and inflammation: they play an important role in the innate immune response, not only as antimicrobial agents, but also as immunomodulating molecules and as an i...
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عنوان ژورنال: CellBio
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2325-7776,2325-7792
DOI: 10.4236/cellbio.2013.24023