Protegrins: leukocyte antimicrobial peptides that combine features of corticostatic defensins and tachyplesins

FEBS Letters

Volumn 327, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 231-236

  Kokryakov, Vladimir N ^a,b   Harwig, Sylvia S L ^a   Panyutich, Elena A ^a   Shevchenko, Andrei A ^c   Aleshina, Galina M ^b   Shamova, Olga V ^b   Korneva, Helen A ^b   Lehrer, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Antibiotic peptide; Host parasite relationship; Leukocyte; Phagocyte

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEGRIN; TACHYPLESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEUKOCYTE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SWINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DEFENSINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; LEUKOCYTES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SWINE;

EID: 0027169823     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80175-T     Document Type: Article

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