Defensins: antifungal lessons from eukaryotes
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Defensins: antifungal lessons from eukaryotes
Over the last years, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been the focus of intense research toward the finding of a viable alternative to current antifungal drugs. Defensins are one of the major families of AMPs and the most represented among all eukaryotic groups, providing an important first line of host defense against pathogenic microorganisms. Several of these cysteine-stabilized peptides p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Microbiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-302X
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00097