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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 78, Issue 15, Pages 5452-5456Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01493-12
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- Canadian Institutes for Health Research
- Cystic Fibrosis Canada
- Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Fundacion la Caixa
- Fundacion Canada (Spain)
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This report describes a previously unrecognized role for bacterial surface layers as barriers that confer protection against antimicrobial peptides. As antimicrobial peptides exist in natural environments, S-layers may provide a bacterial survival mechanism that has been selected for through evolution.
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