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- the alpha subfamily. They are also known as cryptdins and are produced within the small bowel. Cryptdin is a portmanteau of crypt and defensin. Defensins...
- molecules secreted by Paneth cells are alpha-defensins, which are known as cryptdins in mice. These peptides have hydrophobic and positively charged domains...
- PMID 8808285. Eisenhauer PB, Harwig SS, Lehrer RI (September 1992). "Cryptdins: antimicrobial defensins of the murine small intestine". Infection and...
- colony count results of a study of the mouse cryptdins showed that the killing of E. coli by cryptdins is generally independent of their tertiary and...