… , expanding the repertoire of the antimicrobial functions of defensins. It has been shown that
bacterial proteins can inactivate the action of defensins, and that pathogen type III secretion …

… bacterial membrane-selective characteristic of β-defensins … of β-defensins and negatively
charged bacterial membranes. … literature on pathogenic bacteria that induce β-defensins from …

Five variants of human β-defensins (HBDs) were expressed in Escherichia coli using two
vector systems (pET28a(+) and pQE30) with inducible expression by IPTG. The last vector has …

… This review summarizes the activities of β-defensins against a variety of microbial pathogens
and their mechanisms of action, which include the destruction of bacterial biofilm structure …

… bacterial homeostasis and response to pathogens. This model is complicated, however,
by numerous other observations of β-defensin … periodontal pathogens to the different β-defensins…

… pathogenic bacteria or predisposing disease states. The constitutive production of defensins
in … A model for the role of defensins and intestinal bacteria in the pathogenesis and disease …

… antimicrobial activities of β-defensin peptide-4 (sAvBD-4) and 10 (sAvBD-4) derived from
chickens against pathogenic organisms including bacteria and fungi. Ten bacterial strains and …

… Defensins are small antimicrobial peptides that play an … , a recently discovered new porcine
defensin that is produced in … against a broad range of pathogenic bacteria, while it only …

… The HNP1–4 defensins affect a wide range of responses to infections with pathogenic
microbes. Among these, inhibition of HIV-1 infection was shown to be mediated by blocking viral …

… bacteria by a number of defensins, including HBD-1 and HBD-2 ([15], [12] and our unpublished
results). Why antimicrobial activity of β-defensins … eliminate pathogenic bacteria from the …