The role of defensins and C-X-C chemokines in mammalian innate immunity
In humans, defensins constitute the largest group of host defence peptides that are evolutionarily conserved components of innate immunity. Defensins share many structural and functional characteristics with C-X-C chemokines, including a C-X-C amino acid motif, net positive charge, disulphide bondin...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29909 |