Antimicrobial Peptides and Innate Immunity

1. Evolution of Antimicrobial Peptides: A View from the Cystine Chapel
Robert I. Lehrer

2. Innate Immunity in Plants: The Role of Antimicrobial Peptides
H. U. Stotz, F. Waller, K. Wang

3. Antimicrobial Peptides Produced by Microorganisms
Aline Dias Paiva, Eefjan Breukink

4. LL-37: An Immunomodulatory Antimicrobial Host Defence Peptide
Paula E. Beaumont, Hsin-Ni Li, Donald J. Davidson

5. Wound Repair and Antimicrobial Peptides
Mona Ståhle

6. WAPing Out Pathogens and Disease in the Mucosa: Roles for SLPI and Trappin-2
Thomas S. Wilkinson, Ali Roghanian, Jean-Michel Sallenave

7. Histatins: Multifunctional Salivary Antimicrobial Peptides
Wim van ’t Hof, Menno J. Oudhoff, Enno C. I. Veerman

8. Structure–Function Relationships of Antimicrobial Chemokines
Mauricio Arias, Sebastian A. J. Zaat, Hans J. Vogel

9. Mechanisms and Significance of Bacterial Resistance to Human Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides
Maira Goytia, Justin L. Kandler, William M. Shafer

10. Antimicrobial Peptides and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Simon Jäger, Eduard F. Stange, Jan Wehkamp

11. Cystic Fibrosis and Defective Airway Innate Immunity
Jennifer A. Bartlett, Paul B. McCray

12. Antimicrobial Peptides in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Gimano D. Amatngalim, Pieter S. Hiemstra

13. Host Defense Peptides: Immune Modulation and Antimicrobial Activity In Vivo
Nicole J. Afacan, Laure M. Janot, Robert E. W. Hancock

14. Helping the Host: Induction of Antimicrobial Peptides as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy Against Infections
Birgitta Agerberth, Peter Bergman, Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson

Keywords: Biomedicine, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Biochemistry, general, Medical Microbiology