Lipopolysaccharide Neutralization by Antimicrobial Peptides: A Gambit in the Innate Host Defense Strategy
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Lipopolysaccharide neutralization by antimicrobial peptides: a gambit in the innate host defense strategy.
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are nowadays understood as broad multifunctional tools of the innate immune system to fight microbial infections. In addition to its direct antimicrobial action, AMPs can modulate the host immune response by promoting or restraining the recruitment of cells and chemicals to the infection focus. Binding of AMPs to lipopolysaccharide is a critical step for both their...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Innate Immunity
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1662-811X,1662-8128
DOI: 10.1159/000336713