Structure-activity analysis of thanatin, a 21-residue inducible insect defense peptide with sequence homology to frog skin antimicrobial peptides

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1221-1225

  Fehlbaum, Pascale ^a   Bulet, Philippe ^a   Chernysh, Serguey ^c   Briand, Jean Paul ^b   Roussel, Jean Pierre ^a   Letellier, Lucienne ^d   Hetru, Charles ^a   Hoffmann, Jules A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FROG; HOST RESISTANCE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; FUNGI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEMIPTERA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; RANIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANURA; FUNGI; INSECTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PODISUS MACULIVENTRIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030071417     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.3.1221     Document Type: Article

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