Antimicrobial peptides and Complement - Maximising the inflammatory response

• मुख्य लेखक: Cordula M. Stover (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Medicine; Disease; regulation; Health; system-specific; complement; antimicrobial peptides
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...