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It's a partitioning mechanism into the lipid membrane, and i'm not sure outright how you develop a defense to that without the bacteria changing the composition of their walls?

There are bacteria that have developed resistance to some defensins - not sure what mechanism is used, but clearly it is possible. And once it exists somewhere... bacteria are promiscuous with their genes.

And in the interest of avoiding repetitive arguments I will writing a summary close out in reply to Peter.