Visualizing Attack of Escherichia coli by the Antimicrobial Peptide Human Defensin 5
Human α-defensin 5 (HD5) is a 32-residue cysteine-rich host-defense peptide that exhibits broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity and contributes to innate immunity in the human gut and other organ systems. Despite many years of investigation, its antimicrobial mechanism of action remains unclear. In...
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104065 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2515-5901 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6153-8803 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5356-3638 |