Purification and properties of proline-rich antimicrobial peptides from sheep and goat leukocytes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 4106-4111

  Shamova, Olga ^a,b   Brogden, Kim A ^c   Zhao, Chengquan ^a   Nguyen, Tung ^a   Kokryakov, Vladimir N ^a   Lehrer, Robert I ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLINE;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL KILLING; GOAT; HOST RESISTANCE; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SHEEP;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0032808386     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.8.4106-4111.1999     Document Type: Article

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