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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 24.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Pharm Des. 2009;15(21):2377–2392. doi: 10.2174/138161209788682325

Fig. (2). Gene structure for human α-defensins (A), β-defensins (B) and cathelicidin (C).

Fig. (2)

The general structure for each family is shown with exon numbers for the genes, the 5′ and 3′ Untranslated Regions (UTRs) for the mRNA, and the precursor regions for the peptides.