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NOD2/CARD15 mediates induction of the antimicrobial peptide human beta-defensin-2.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 27 Jan 2006
Voss Eske, Wehkamp Jan, Wehkamp Kai, Stange Eduard F, Schröder Jens M, Harder Jürgen
Abstract excerpt
Production of inducible antimicrobial peptides offers a first and rapid defense response of epithelial cells against invading microbes. Human beta-defensin-2 (hBD-2) is an antimicrobial peptide induced in various epithelia upon extracellular as well as intracellular bacterial challenge. Nucleotid...
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