cathelicidin

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Etymology

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From cathelin (the protein domain conserved in cathelicidins) +‎ -cide (killer) +‎ -in, in 1995.[1]

Noun

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cathelicidin (plural cathelicidins)

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  1. (biochemistry) Any of a family of antimicrobial polypeptides found in lysosomes in polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

References

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  1. ^ Margherita Zanetti, Renato Gennaro, Domenico Remeo (1995 October) “Cathelicidins: a novel protein family with a common proregion and a variable C-terminal antimicrobial domain”, in FEBS Letters, volume 374, number 1, →DOI, [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7589491 ���PMID], pages 1-5