Antimicrobial peptides are essential effectors of gut immunity. The cryptdin-related sequence peptides represent a newly identified large family of antimicrobial peptides that form dimers to increase diversity.
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Lehrer, R. Paradise lost and paradigm found. Nat Immunol 5, 775–776 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0804-775
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