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Literature associating DEFB4A and acute pericementitis

DEFB4A [ENSP00000303532]

Beta-defensin 4A; Exhibits antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative bacteria and Gram-positive bacteria. May act as a ligand for C-C chemokine receptor CCR6. Can bind to both human and mouse CCR6 and induce chemotactic activity of CCR6-expressing cells . ; Belongs to the beta-defensin family. LAP/TAP subfamily.

Synonyms:  DEFB4A,  DEFB4Ap,  hDEFB4A,  DEFB4B,  DEFB4Bp ...

Linkouts:  STRING  Pharos  UniProt

The disease-gene associations are derived from automatic text mining of the biomedical literature, manually curated database annotations, cancer mutation data, and genome-wide association studies. The confidence of each association is signified by stars, where ★★★★★ is the highest confidence and ★☆☆☆☆ is the lowest.

Developed by Sune Frankild, Alexander Junge, Albert Pallejà, Dhouha Grissa, Kalliopi Tsafou, and Lars Juhl Jensen from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research.

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