Nature Immunology
6, 963 - 964 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ni1005-963
Back to the past: new drugs from ancient molecules?Rodney Phillips
Rodney Phillips is with the James Martin 21st Century School and the Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK. rodney.phillips@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Multicellular organisms exist in hostile environments full of dangerous microorganisms. Retrocyclin 2, a  -defensin analog, acts at cell membranes to hinder viral coat attachment helping to protect multicellular organisms.
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