| 11. | Could antimicrobial peptides ever replace the antibiotics to which so many bacteria have become resistant?
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| 12. | "Glycocins " are RiPPS that are glycosylated antimicrobial peptides.
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| 13. | Fundamental differences exist between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells that may represent targets for antimicrobial peptides.
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| 14. | Antimicrobial peptides have been successively incorporated into topical therapeutics.
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| 15. | Several species of insect produce antimicrobial peptides known as " defensins " and " cecropins ".
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| 16. | Thousands of antimicrobial peptides, similar to magainin, have been found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
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| 17. | So the cholesterol in mammalian cells will protect the cells from attack by the antimicrobial peptides.
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| 18. | The most abundant one was a peptide that the team called LAP, for lingual antimicrobial peptide.
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| 19. | The beta defensins are antimicrobial peptides implicated in the resistance of epithelial surfaces to microbial colonization.
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| 20. | The probiotic group also showed decreased concentrations of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-8 but increased antimicrobial peptide hBD-2.
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