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Antileukoproteinase is an enzyme
Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into different molecules, called products. Almost all chemical reactions in a biological cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates...

 that in humans is encoded by the SLPI gene
Gene
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...

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Further reading

  • Victor E. Reviglio, Andres Grenat, Federico Pegoraro, Ruben H. Sambuelli, Tayyib Rana, and Irene C. Kuo. Secretory Leukoprotease Inhibitor: A Native Antimicrobial Protein in the Innate Immune Response in a Rat Model of S. aureus Keratitis. Journal of OphthalmologyVolume 2009 (2009), Article ID 259393, 5 pagesdoi:10.1155/2009/259393
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