Spleen antibacterial peptides: High levels of PR-39 and presence of two forms of NK-lysin

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 174-178

  Bonetto, V ^a   Andersson, M ^a   Bergman, T ^a   Sillard, R ^a   Norberg, A ^a   Mutt, V ^a   Jornvall H ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antibacterial peptide; C terminal ladder sequence analysis; Carboxypeptidase P; Carboxypeptidase Y; MALDI mass spectrometry; NK lysin; PR 39

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARGININE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE C; PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROLINE; PROLINE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DESORPTION; DNA LIBRARY; EXTRACTION; GRANULOCYTE; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; LASER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0033214531     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050016     Document Type: Article

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