Antimicrobial peptides and Complement - Maximising the inflammatory response

• 主要作者: Cordula M. Stover (auth)
• 格式: 电子 本书章节
• 语言: 英语
• 出版: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• 丛编: Frontiers Research Topics
• 主题: Medicine; Disease; regulation; Health; system-specific; complement; antimicrobial peptides
• 在线阅读: 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...