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Synergistic interactions between mammalian antimicrobial defense peptides
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
|April 17, 2001
Abstract:
A single animal can express several cationic antimicrobial peptides with different sequences and structures. We demonstrate that mammalian peptides from different structural classes frequently show synergy with each other and selectively show synergy with human lysozyme.