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Record W4254149731 · doi:10.1128/9781555816872.ch4

Host Defense (Antimicrobial) Peptides and Proteins

2014· book-chapter· en· W4254149731 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueASM Press eBooks · 2014
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldImmunology and Microbiology
TopicAntimicrobial Peptides and Activities
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLactoferrinTransferrinInnate immune systemBiologyOvotransferrinAntimicrobial peptidesMicrobiologyAntimicrobialLytic cycleImmune systemBiochemistryBeta defensinDefensinImmunologyVirus

Abstract

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Pathogen clearance is mediated by a complex set of strategies, ranging from the ingestion of microbes by phagocytes to the production of antimicrobial molecules, including reactive chemical species or lytic compounds. Another strategy is the production of cationic host defence proteins and peptides, compounds that play an important role in innate immunity, not only as antimicrobial agents, but also as immune regulators. Defensins members are categorized into three families based on their sizes and θ: the α-, β-, and θ-defensins. Defensins have generated a large amount of interest due to their modest in vitro antimicrobial activity against a wide range of microorganisms, including enveloped viruses, fungi, and bacteria. Host defense proteins include more than 700 structurally diverse members expressed extensively in both plants and animals. Lysozymes, also called muramidases, are small, abundant cationic enzymes that are widely distributed in plants and animals. Lactoferrin is an 80-kDa iron-binding plasma protein that belongs to the transferrin protein family, which includes serum transferrin, ovotransferrin, melanotransferrin, and the inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase. Chemokines are an extensive family of small chemotactic cytokine proteins of 7 to 10 kDa in size and include approximately 50 members in humans. Most chemokines are also cationic proteins and thus possess modest antibacterial properties in dilute medium. Host defense peptides and proteins are major components in the arsenal of our immune system.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.810
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it