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- Histatins are histidine-rich (cationic) antimicrobial proteins found in saliva. Histatin's involvement in antimicrobial activities makes histatin part...
- Medicine. "Entrez Gene: HTN1 histatin 1". Sugiyama K, Ogino T, Ogata K (1990). "Rapid purification and characterization of histatins (histidine-rich polypeptides)...
- proteolytic processing results in many histatins: e.g., histatins 4-6 are derived from histatin 3 by proteolysis. Histatins 1 and 3 are primary products of HIS1(1)...
- Oppenheim FG, Helmerhorst EJ, Siqueira W, Hand AR (November 2006). "Salivary histatins in human deep posterior lingual glands (of von Ebner)". Archives of Oral...
- which have also been shown to have another function in the secretion of histatins which offer an early defense (outside of the immune system) against microbes...
- enzymes (for more on that topic, see plant defense against herbivory). Histatins, another type of salivary proteins, also precipitate tannins from solution...
- of EGF and NGF in humans are much lower than those in rats. In humans, histatins may play a larger role. As well as being growth factors, IGF-I and TGF-α...
- which in turn breaks down the bacterium. Antimicrobial peptides such as histatins inhibit the growth of Candida albicans and Streptococcus mutans. Salivary...
- recombinant histatin and statherin strains is more prevalent as they are smaller and simpler in structure. Therefore, a range of histatin and statherin...
- Saitoh E, Azen EA (1990). "Tissue distribution of RNAs for cystatins, histatins, statherin, and proline-rich salivary proteins in humans and macaques"...