Human Defensin 5 Disulfide Array Mutants: Disulfide Bond Deletion Attenuates Antibacterial Activity against Staphylococcus aureus
Human α-defensin 5 (HD5, HD5[subscript ox] to specify the oxidized and disulfide linked form) is a 32-residue cysteine-rich host-defense peptide, expressed and released by small intestinal Paneth cells, that exhibits antibacterial activity against a number of Gram-negative and -positive bacterial st...
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American Chemical Society
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82575 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6153-8803 |