Identification of a novel, multifunctional *-defensin (human *-defensin 3) with specific antimicrobial activity

Real time quantitative PCR.

1996 • 6,155 citations

Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites

1997 • 5,415 citations

Prediction of complete gene structures in human genomic DNA

1997 • 4,041 citations

Normal keratinization in a spontaneously immortalized aneuploid human keratinocyte cell line.

1988 • 4,008 citations

Matlnd and Matlnspector: new fast and versatile tools for detection of consensus matches in nucleotide sequence data

1995 • 2,642 citations

β-Defensins: Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity Through Dendritic and T Cell CCR6

1999 • 1,760 citations

Databases on transcriptional regulation: TRANSFAC, TRRD and COMPEL

1998 • 1,474 citations

Isolation and Characterization of Human μ-Defensin-3, a Novel Human Inducible Peptide Antibiotic

2001 • 1,295 citations

Human β-Defensin-1 Is a Salt-Sensitive Antibiotic in Lung That Is Inactivated in Cystic Fibrosis

1997 • 1,069 citations

Drosophila host defense: Differential induction of antimicrobial peptide genes after infection by various classes of microorganisms

1997 • 969 citations

Human beta-defensin-1: an antimicrobial peptide of urogenital tissues.

1998 • 733 citations

The peptide antibiotic LL-37/hCAP-18 is expressed in epithelia of the human lung where it has broad antimicrobial activity at the airway surface

1998 • 732 citations

Expression and regulation of the human beta-defensins hBD-1 and hBD-2 in intestinal epithelium.

1999 • 602 citations

Human beta-defensin 2 is a salt-sensitive peptide antibiotic expressed in human lung.

1998 • 577 citations

Production of β-defensins by human airway epithelia

1998 • 574 citations

Widespread expression of beta‐defensin hBD‐1 in human secretory glands and epithelial cells

1996 • 571 citations

hBD‐1: a novel β‐defensin from human plasma

1995 • 547 citations

The innate immune response of the respiratory epithelium

2000 • 420 citations

Identification of Human β-Defensin-2 in Respiratory Tract and Plasma and Its Increase in Bacterial Pneumonia

1998 • 151 citations

Changes in voltage activation, Cs+ sensitivity, and ion permeability in H5 mutants of the plant K+ channel KAT1.

1996 • 131 citations

Mapping of the Gene Encoding Human β-Defensin-2 (DEFB2) to Chromosome Region 8p22–p23.1

1997 • 113 citations

Induction of epithelial chloride secretion by channel-forming cryptdins 2 and 3

1997 • 107 citations

A 450-kb contig of defensin genes on human chromosome 8p23

1999 • 100 citations

HCC-2, a human chemokine: Gene structure, expression pattern, and biological activity

1998 • 96 citations

Human beta-defensin-1: A urinary peptide present in variant molecular forms and its putative functional implication.

1998 • 78 citations

Transduction of Well-Differentiated Airway Epithelium by Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Is Limited by Vector Entry

1999 • 70 citations