Antibacterial and antiviral roles of a fish β-defensin expressed both in pituitary and testis.
Defensins are a group of cationic peptides that exhibit broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity. In this study, we cloned and characterized a β-defensin from pituitary cDNA library of a protogynous hermaphroditic orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides). Interestingly, the β-defensin was shown to...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010
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