Cloning and expression of three cecropin cDNAs from a mosquito cell line

FEBS Letters

Volumn 454, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 147-151

  Sun, Dongxu ^a   Eccleston, Eric D ^a   Fallon, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Helical peptide; Antibiotic; cDNA; Innate immunity; Insect; mRNA; Transcription; Vector

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CECROPIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULICIDAE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033028392     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(99)00799-1     Document Type: Article

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