cathelicidin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cathelin (“the protein domain conserved in cathelicidins”) + -cide (“killer”) + -in, in 1995.[1]
Noun
[edit]cathelicidin (plural cathelicidins)
- (biochemistry) Any of a family of antimicrobial polypeptides found in lysosomes in polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
References
[edit]- ^ 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, , [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7589491 ���PMID], pages 1-5