Ya-Nan Wei

The Silent Orchestrators: Redefining Invertebrate Host Defense Through the Lens of Innate Defense Regulator Peptides

The study of invertebrate immunology has long been defined by the paradigm of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as direct effectors of microbial killing. This classical view posits that the primary function of the insect immune system's peptide repertoire is to generate cationic, amphipathic molecules that permeabilize...