Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are expressed in various living organisms as first-line host
defenses against potential harmful encounters in their surroundings. AMPs are short …

Phagocytosis is a fundamental process of cells to capture and ingest foreign particles. Small
unicellular organisms such as free-living amoeba use this process to acquire food. In …

Antimicrobial peptides and proteins (AMPs) are a diverse class of naturally occurring
molecules that are produced as a first line of defense by all multicellular organisms. These …

With the growing problem of the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the search for
alternative ways to combat bacterial infections is extremely urgent. While analyzing the effect …

Hundreds of peptide antibiotics have been described in the past half-century (20, 28, 35).
These fall into two classes, nonribosomally synthesized peptides, such as the gramicidins …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are multi-functional peptides whose fundamental biological
role in vivo has been proposed to be the elimination of pathogenic microorganisms …

Human and murine neutrophils differ with respect to representation in blood, receptors,
nuclear morphology, signaling pathways, granule proteins, NADPH oxidase regulation …

Gene‐encoded antimicrobial peptides are an important component of host defense in
animals ranging from insects to mammals. They do not target specific molecular receptors …

Paneth cells in mouse small intestinal crypts secrete granules rich in microbicidal peptides
when exposed to bacteria or bacterial antigens. The dose-dependent secretion occurs …

Human neutrophils contain two structurally distinct types of antimicrobial peptides, β-sheet
defensins (HNP-1 to HNP-4) and the α-helical peptide LL-37. We used radial diffusion …