Birgitta Agerberth

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Best Publications

• The human antimicrobial and chemotactic peptides LL-37 and α-defensins are expressed by specific lymphocyte and monocyte populations

  Birgitta Agerberth;Jehad Charo;Joachim Werr;Berit Olsson

  1021
  Citations

• The Expression of the Gene Coding for the Antibacterial Peptide LL-37 Is Induced in Human Keratinocytes during Inflammatory Disorders

  Margareta Frohm;Birgitta Agerberth;Ghasem Ahangari;Mona Ståhle-Bäckdahl

  1018
  Citations

• Conformation-dependent Antibacterial Activity of the Naturally Occurring Human Peptide LL-37

  Jan Johansson;Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson;Martı́n E. Rottenberg;Kurt D. Berndt

  832
  Citations

• Structure and organization of the human antimicrobial peptide LL-37 in phospholipid membranes: relevance to the molecular basis for its non-cell-selective activity.

  Ziv Oren;Jeffrey C. Lerman;Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson;Birgitta Agerberth

  778
  Citations

• The antimicrobial peptide cathelicidin protects the urinary tract against invasive bacterial infection.

  Milan Chromek;Zuzana Slamová;Peter Bergman;László Kovács

  778
  Citations

• Cutaneous Injury Induces the Release of Cathelicidin Anti-Microbial Peptides Active Against Group A Streptococcus

  Robert A. Dorschner;Vasumati K. Pestonjamasp;Seema Tamakuwala;Takaaki Ohtake

  768
  Citations

• Mechanisms of action on Escherichia coli of cecropin P1 and PR-39, two antibacterial peptides from pig intestine.

  H G Boman;B Agerberth;A Boman

  761
  Citations

• The human gene FALL39 and processing of the cathelin precursor to the antibacterial peptide LL-37 in granulocytes

  Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson;Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson;Birgitta Agerberth;Birgitta Agerberth;Jacob Odeberg;Tomas Bergman

  731
  Citations

• FALL-39, a putative human peptide antibiotic, is cysteine-free and expressed in bone marrow and testis.

  Birgitta Agerberth;Hans Gunne;Jakob Odeberg;Per Kogner

  690
  Citations

• Downregulation of bactericidal peptides in enteric infections: a novel immune escape mechanism with bacterial DNA as a potential regulator.

  Dilara Islam;Lisa Bandholtz;Jakob Nilsson;Hans Wigzell

  535
  Citations

• Crosstalk between neutrophils, B-1a cells and plasmacytoid dendritic cells initiates autoimmune diabetes

  Julien Diana;Julien Diana;Yannick Simoni;Yannick Simoni;Laetitia Furio;Laetitia Furio;Lucie Beaudoin;Lucie Beaudoin

  491
  Citations

• Amino acid sequence of PR-39. Isolation from pig intestine of a new member of the family of proline-arginine-rich antibacterial peptides.

  Birgitta Agerberth;Jong-Youn Lee;Tomas Bergman;Mats Carlquist

  480
  Citations

• Expression of the cathelicidin LL-37 is modulated by short chain fatty acids in colonocytes: relevance of signalling pathways.

  J Schauber;C Svanholm;S Termén;K Iffland

  470
  Citations

• NK-lysin, a novel effector peptide of cytotoxic T and NK cells. Structure and cDNA cloning of the porcine form, induction by interleukin 2, antibacterial and antitumour activity.

  M. Andersson;H. Gunne;B. Agerberth;A. Boman

  382
  Citations

• Improved outcome in shigellosis associated with butyrate induction of an endogenous peptide antibiotic.

  Rubhana Raqib;Protim Sarker;Peter Bergman;Gul Ara

  349
  Citations

• Antimicrobial peptides important in innate immunity.

  Andreas Cederlund;Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson;Birgitta Agerberth

  308
  Citations

• The Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 Inhibits HIV-1 Replication

  Peter Bergman;Lilian Walter-Jallow;Kristina Broliden;Birgitta Agerberth

  308
  Citations

• Biochemical and Antibacterial Analysis of Human Wound and Blister Fluid

  Margareta Frohm;Hans Gunne;Ann Charlotte Bergman;Birgitta Agerberth;Birgitta Agerberth

  303
  Citations

• Pancreatic β-Cells Limit Autoimmune Diabetes via an Immunoregulatory Antimicrobial Peptide Expressed under the Influence of the Gut Microbiota.

  Jia Sun;Laetitia Furio;Laetitia Furio;Ramine Mecheri;Anne M. van der Does

  299
  Citations

• Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Modulates Immune Responses and Its Curli Fimbriae Interact with the Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37

  Ylva Kai-Larsen;Petra Lüthje;Milan Chromek;Verena Peters

  276
  Citations

• Antimicrobial polypeptides of human vernix caseosa and amniotic fluid: implications for newborn innate defense.

  Hiroyuki Yoshio;Maria Tollin;Gudmundur H Gudmundsson;Gudmundur H Gudmundsson;Hugo Lagercrantz

  253
  Citations