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Histatins are histidine-rich (cationic)
antimicrobial proteins found in saliva.
Histatin's involvement in
antimicrobial activities makes histatin part...
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histatin 1".
Sugiyama K,
Ogino T,
Ogata K (1990). "Rapid
purification and
characterization of
histatins (histidine-rich polypeptides)...
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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)...
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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...
- 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...
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Oppenheim FG,
Helmerhorst EJ,
Siqueira W, Hand AR (November 2006). "Salivary
histatins in
human deep
posterior lingual glands (of von Ebner)".
Archives of Oral...
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which in turn
breaks down the bacterium.
Antimicrobial peptides such as
histatins inhibit the
growth of
Candida albicans and
Streptococcus mutans. Salivary...
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enzymes (for more on that topic, see
plant defense against herbivory).
Histatins,
another type of
salivary proteins, also
precipitate tannins from solution...
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Saitoh E, Azen EA (1990). "Tissue
distribution of RNAs for cystatins,
histatins, statherin, and proline-rich
salivary proteins in
humans and macaques"...
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heterotypic complexes with amylase, proline-rich proteins, statherin, and
histatins". J. Dent. Res. 76 (3): 734–43. doi:10.1177/00220345970760030501. PMID 9109822...
