Surfactant proteins A (SP-A) and D (SP-D) are soluble innate immune molecules which
maintain lung homeostasis through their dual roles as anti-infectious and …

Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is a multimeric collectin that is involved in innate immune
defense and expressed in pulmonary, as well as non-pulmonary, epithelia. SP-D exerts …

Pulmonary surfactant is a lipid/protein complex synthesized by the alveolar epithelium and
secreted into the airspaces, where it coats and protects the large respiratory air–liquid …

Superinfections from Staphylococcus aureus following influenza are an increasing concern.
We assessed several laboratory and clinical strains in a mouse coinfection model with …

Deleted in Malignant Brain Tumour 1 (DMBT1) is a gene that encodes alternatively spliced
proteins involved in mucosal innate immunity. It also encodes a glycoprotein with a …

Influenza has a long history of causing morbidity and mortality in the human population
through routine seasonal spread and global pandemics. The high mutation rate of the RNA …

In this review, the authors survey the large number of antibacterial and antiviral proteins
present in human saliva. Of interest, most of these antibacterial proteins display antiviral …

Human neutrophil peptides (HNPs) are released from granules of neutrophils in response to
various activating stimuli and they participate in the killing of bacteria and the stimulation of …

Collectins are collagen-containing C-type (calcium-dependent) lectins which are important
pathogen pattern recognising innate immune molecules. Their primary structure is …

Salivary agglutinin (SAG), lung glycoprotein-340 (gp-340) and Deleted in Malignant Brain
Tumours 1 (DMBT1) are three names for identical proteins encoded by the dmbt1 gene …