Antimicrobial and cytolytic polypeptides of amoeboid protozoa - Effector molecules of primitive phagocytes

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 267-279

  Leippe, Matthias ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibacterial peptides; Cytolytic; Entamoeba histolytica; Lysozymes; NK lysin; Pore forming peptide; Protozoa; Saposin like proteins

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXIC LYMPHOCYTE; DISULFIDE BOND; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; INVERTEBRATE; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; VERTEBRATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032993170     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(99)00010-5     Document Type: Article

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