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DEFB118
Introduction
Beta-defensin 118 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DEFB118 gene.[1][2][3]
References
References
- ↑ Liu Q, Hamil KG, Sivashanmugam P, Grossman G, Soundararajan R, Rao AJ, Richardson RT, Zhang YL, O’Rand MG, Petrusz P, French FS, Hall SH (Oct 2001). “Primate epididymis-specific proteins: characterization of ESC42, a novel protein containing a trefoil-like motif in monkey and human”. Endocrinology. 142 (10): 4529–39. doi:10.1210/en.142.10.4529. PMID 11564719.
- ↑ Yenugu S, Hamil KG, Radhakrishnan Y, French FS, Hall SH (Jul 2004). “The androgen-regulated epididymal sperm-binding protein, human beta-defensin 118 (DEFB118) (formerly ESC42), is an antimicrobial beta-defensin”. Endocrinology. 145 (7): 3165–73. doi:10.1210/en.2003-1698. PMID 15033915.
- ↑ “Entrez Gene: DEFB118 defensin, beta 118”.
Further reading
Further reading
- van Wetering S, Sterk PJ, Rabe KF, Hiemstra PS (Dec 1999). “Defensins: key players or bystanders in infection, injury, and repair in the lung?”. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 104 (6): 1131–8. doi:10.1016/S0091-6749(99)70004-7. PMID 10588992.
- Kao CY, Chen Y, Zhao YH, Wu R (Jul 2003). “ORFeome-based search of airway epithelial cell-specific novel human [beta]-defensin genes”. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 29 (1): 71–80. doi:10.1165/rcmb.2002-0205OC. PMID 12600824.
- Schutte BC, Mitros JP, Bartlett JA, Walters JD, Jia HP, Welsh MJ, Casavant TL, McCray PB (Feb 2002). “Discovery of five conserved beta -defensin gene clusters using a computational search strategy”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (4): 2129–33. doi:10.1073/pnas.042692699. PMC 122330. PMID 11854508.