Antimicrobials, stress and mutagenesis.

Cationic antimicrobial peptides are ancient and ubiquitous immune effectors that multicellular organisms use to kill and police microbes whereas antibiotics are mostly employed by microorganisms. As antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) mostly target the cell wall, a microbial 'Achilles heel', it...

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Main Authors: Alexandro Rodríguez-Rojas, Olga Makarova, Jens Rolff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-10-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004445