In the past decade, small secreted peptides have proven to be essential for various aspects of plant growth and development, including the maintenance of certain stem cell populations. Most small secreted peptides identified in plants to date are recognized by membrane-localized receptor kinases, the largest family of receptor proteins in the plant genome. This peptide-receptor interaction is e...

Keywords: (hACE2), Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme-2 (ACE2), Peptides, Small molecules, Receptor-Binding Domain (RBD), Immunogenicity, Proteins, Solubility, Unsuitability, Drug, Inhibition PPI, Disruptors

Recent studies have demonstrated that in addition to their antimicrobial activity, cationic host defense peptides, like the human cathelicidin LL-37, perform many activities relating to innate immunity, including the induction or modulation of chemokine and cytokine production, alteration of gene expression in host cells, and inhibition of proinflammatory responses of host cells to bacterial co...