Structural perspectives on antimicrobial chemokines
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Structural perspectives on antimicrobial chemokines
Chemokines are best known as signaling proteins in the immune system. Recently however, a large number of human chemokines have been shown to exert direct antimicrobial activity. This moonlighting activity appears to be related to the net high positive charge of these immune signaling proteins. Chemokines can be divided into distinct structural elements and some of these have been studied as is...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Immunology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1664-3224
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00384