Acaloleptins A: Inducible antibacterial peptides from larvae of the beetle, Acalolepta luxuriosa

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 88-98

  Imamura, Morikazu ^a   Wada, Sugino ^a   Koizumi, Nobuo ^a   Kadotani, Tomoyuki ^a   Yaoi, Katsuro ^a   Sato, Ryoichi ^a   Iwahana, Hidenori ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibacterial peptides; Coleopteran insect; Glycine rich peptide; Purification

Indexed keywords

ACALOLEPTA LUXURIOSA; APIS MELLIFERA; ARALIA CORDATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

ACALOLEPTIN A PROTEIN, ACALOLEPTA LUXURIOSA; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; COLEOPTERICIN PROTEIN, INSECT; DPT PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOLOTRICIN 2 PROTEIN, HOLOTRICHIA DIOMPHALIA; HYMENOPTAECIN PROTEIN, APIS MELLIFERA; INSECT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PLASMA PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; HEMOLYMPH; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDE MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BEETLES; BLOOD PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HEMOLYMPH; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0032616355     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6327(1999)40:2<88::AID-ARCH3>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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