Antimicrobial peptides and Complement - Maximising the inflammatory response

• Main Author: Cordula M. Stover (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Disease; regulation; Health; system-specific; complement; antimicrobial peptides
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Antimicrobial peptides and complement are distinct components of the innate immune defence. While antimicrobial peptides, after cleavage of a preproprotein, have the ability to insert directly in non host membranes, complement requires a sequential enzymatic activation in the fluid phase in order to...