The Expression of the Gene Coding for the Antibacterial Peptide LL-37 Is Induced in Human Keratinocytes during Inflammatory Disorders

Margareta Frohm, Birgitta Agerberth, Ghasem Ahangari, +4

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The human antimicrobial and chemotactic peptides LL-37 and α-defensins are expressed by specific lymphocyte and monocyte populations

Birgitta Agerberth, Jehad Charo, Joachim Werr, +7

Blood

Conformation-dependent Antibacterial Activity of the Naturally Occurring Human Peptide LL-37

Jan Johansson, Guðmundur H. Guðmundsson, Martı́n E. Rottenberg, +2

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The antimicrobial peptide cathelicidin protects the urinary tract against invasive bacterial infection

Milan Chromek, Zuzana Slamová, Peter Bergman, +8

Nature Medicine

Antimicrobial SusceptibilityHealth SciencesAntibioticsUrinary TractAntimicrobial Peptide Cathelicidin +8

The Human Gene <i>FALL39</i> and Processing of the Cathelin Precursor to the Antibacterial Peptide LL‐37 in Granulocytes

Guðmundur H. Guðmundsson, Birgitta Agerberth, Jacob Odeberg, +3

European Journal of Biochemistry

Microbial PathogensImmunologyMolecular BiologyImmunologic MechanismAntigen Processing +18

Structure and organization of the human antimicrobial peptide LL-37 in phospholipid membranes: relevance to the molecular basis for its non-cell-selective activity

Ziv Oren, Jeffrey C. Lerman, Guðmundur H. Guðmundsson, +2

Biochemical Journal

Cutaneous Injury Induces the Release of Cathelicidin Anti-Microbial Peptides Active Against Group A Streptococcus

Robert A. Dorschner, Vasumati K. Pestonjamasp, Seema Tamakuwala, +6

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Antimicrobial SusceptibilityHealth SciencesCutaneous InjuryWound HealingMicrobiology +8

Downregulation of bactericidal peptides in enteric infections: A novel immune escape mechanism with bacterial DNA as a potential regulator

Dilara Islam, Lisa Bandholtz, Jakob Nilsson, +4

Nature Medicine

Potential RegulatorEnteric InfectionsMucosal ImmunologyMedicineVirulence Factor +8

Crosstalk between neutrophils, B-1a cells and plasmacytoid dendritic cells initiates autoimmune diabetes

Yannick Simoni, Laetitia Furio, Lucie Beaudoin, +3

Nature Medicine

InflammationPlasmacytoid Dendritic CellsAutoimmune DiseaseGranulocyteDiabetes +7

Amino acid sequence of PR‐39

Birgitta Agerberth, Jong‐Youn LEE, Tomas Bergman, +4

European Journal of Biochemistry