Production in Escherichia coli of moricin, a novel type antibacterial peptide from the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 664-669

  Hara, Seiichi ^a   Yamakawa, Minoru ^b  

^a Noda Institute for Scientific Research   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HYBRID PROTEIN; MORICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; INSECT PROTEIN; MORICIN PROTEIN, BOMBYX MORI; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, INSECT; GENES, SYNTHETIC; INSECT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS; PEPTIDES; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0029664501     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1996.0461     Document Type: Article

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