Cathelicidin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a family of antimicrobial polypeptides found in lysosomes in polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

Etymology

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

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