They also have a role in protecting the bacterial cell against host defences.

TRIM proteins are involved in pathogen-recognition and by regulation of transcriptional pathways in host defence.

Explanations for their increased susceptibility include the impairment of humoral and cellular host defences, defective reticuloendothelial phagocytic function and impaired complement activity.

Proteins of this family play important role in host defence, injury and stress.

Each of these groups is involved mainly in host defence; Toll receptors are also involved in embryogenezis.

IL-1Rs are involved in immune host defence and hematopoiesis.

This triggers various processes of host defence and immune response.

Pleurocidin assumes an amphipathic alpha-helical conformation similar to other linear antimicrobial peptides and may play a role in innate host defence.

CD93 is a C-type lectin transmembrane receptors which play a role not only in cell-cell adhesion processes but also in host defence.

Thus, koebnerisin participates in the antimicrobial host defence of the skin and in the digestive tract of breast-feeding newborns.