Isolation and characterization of a new member of the insect defensin family from a beetle, Allomyrina dichotoma

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 526-531

  Miyanoshita, Akihiro ^a   Hara, Seiichi ^b   Sugiyama, Masao ^c   Asaoka, Ai ^a   Taniai, Kiyoko ^a   Yukuhiro, Fumiko ^a   Yamakawa, Minoru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Noda Institute for Scientific Research   (Japan)

^c Hokko Chem Indust Ctrl Res Labs ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CYSTEINE; DEFENSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LARVA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ALLOMYRINA DICHOTOMA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0029948648     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1996.0438     Document Type: Article

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