cathelicidin

English

Etymology

From cathelin (“the protein domain conserved in cathelicidins”) +‎ -cide (“killer”) +‎ -in, in 1995.[1]

Noun

cathelicidin (plural cathelicidins)

  1. (biochemistry) Any of a family of antimicrobial polypeptides found in lysosomes in polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

References
  1. Margherita Zanetti, Renato Gennaro, Domenico Remeo (1995 October) “Cathelicidins: a novel protein family with a common proregion and a variable C-terminal antimicrobial domain”, in FEBS Letters, volume 374, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1-5
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