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Cathelicidins

"Cathelicidins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Antimicrobial cationic peptides with a highly conserved amino terminal cathelin-like domain and a more variable carboxy terminal domain. They are initially synthesized as preproproteins and then cleaved. They are expressed in many tissues of humans and localized to EPITHELIAL CELLS. They kill nonviral pathogens by forming pores in membranes.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cathelicidins" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Cathelicidins" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 54 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2015
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